'I don't want to feel his pain - I want answers.' Lindsay Jackson, from the Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice group, says she doesn't 'have a great deal of esteem' for Matt Hancock, who gave evidence to the coronavirus inquiry yesterday. 📺 Sky 501
Matt Hancock's line of defence, one he repeated over and over during a sometimes tetchy exchange with Hugo Keith KC, was that he inherited a health system that would not be able to cope with a non-influenza pandemic.
The inquiry's lead counsel asked again and again why he, as secretary of state, did nothing to address this obvious failure. There was no straight answer from Mr Hancock.Mr Hancock said he saw potential problems but could not do anything to change"a flawed system". This refusal to accept any responsibility was perhaps most evident when addressing adult social care.
But Mr Hancock clearly wanted everyone to know that despite taking on a system that was not ready, among other things, to scale-up mass testing and vaccine roll out, it was because of his personal interventions that significant gains were made to combat the spread of the virus. He said he went against WHO advice to impose the first quarantines on international travellers who might have been exposed to the virus.
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