Matt Hancock – defying political gravity

The manifest failings of health secretary Matt Hancock have always been in plain sight – screw ups over PPE for health workers, and cronyism over contracts, Covid-infected hospital patients dumped back in care homes and a test-and-trace system that didn’t work. All of which caught him in Dom Cummings’ crosshairs and he was scud-missiled with an expose of Boris’s contempt for his abilities. All of which begged the question why is he still there? To which the answer was sim