Matt Hancock has said Covid caused him to drop plans that would have allowed NHS managers found guilty of serious misconduct to be barred from working in the health service. The Government commissioned leading barrister Tom Kark KC to design an improved
Former health secretary Matt Hancock has demanded answers from the Government on how it will end the “postcode lottery” that prevents people with osteoporosis accessing quality care. The independent MP for West Suffolk has been an outspoken supporter of the Sunday Express’s
Former Health Secretary Matt Hancock told the UK’s Covid inquiry earlier this week that he is “profoundly sorry” for his part in mistakes made during the country’s response to the coronavirus pandemic. Yet the majority of Express.co.uk readers have rejected his apology,
Matt Hancock will be the latest high-profile politician to appear before the Covid-19 inquiry as hearings continue into Government preparedness for the pandemic. The former health secretary, who helped steer the coronavirus response before being forced to quit in June 2021, will
Matt Hancock feared being pushed down an escalator by an anti-vaccination protester who accused him of murdering people during the Covid pandemic, he told a court. Geza Tarjanyi, 62, of Leyland in Lancashire, who has denied causing harassment without violence, is accused
Matt Hancock has been told to apologise to Parliament for breaching the Commons Code of Conduct. Parliament’s Standards Committeee has found the Tory MP breached the code of conduct by lobbying the Standards Commissioner on behalf of fellow Conservative Steve Brine. The
MPs are entitled to claim rent while on a leave of absence under Parliamentary rules but it is likely to anger some people as the MP remained earning his £84,144 a year salary during the show. The MP for West Suffolk chose
Former Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng and Matt Hancock, the ex-Health Secretary, asked to be paid £10,000 a day for consultancy work during an interview with a phoney overseas company, with other Tory MPs also caught out by the sting. During a sting operation
Matt Hancock’s Covid memoirs were censored over his claims that the coronavirus pandemic began with a lab leak in Wuhan. He was pressed to tone down the claims in his book, published earlier this year, because the Government worried it would “cause
Matt Hancock reportedly rejected advice from England’s Chief Medical officer to cut the 14-day Covid isolation period short to five days, fearing that it would “imply we’ve been getting it wrong”. In November 2020, Prof Sir Chris Whitty told Mr Hancock that