Chaos over schools advice for parents: Matt Hancock is accused of mixed messaging after saying pupils should only be sent to classes as a last resort Confused messaging fuelling large numbers of children in school in lockdown A survey found attendance rates reached up to 60 per cent in some schools Department for Education guidance … Read more
Boris Johnson held a top-secret cabinet meeting to discuss an even-tougher lockdown with limits on exercise, compulsory mask-wearing outdoors and no more social bubbles all being floated by ministers, sources claim. The Cabinet Office refused to deny that the draconian new laws were incoming – and instead pointed to Matt Hancock’s vague statement earlier today. The … Read more
Matt Hancock raised fears of an even tougher lockdown to come today as he refused to rule out a swathe of new restrictions. The Health Secretary refused to speculate when directly asked if measures like curfews, limits to time allows outside homes and making masks compulsory outdoors might be brought in. He also ducked out … Read more
The return of Tony Blair? Ex-Labour leader and three-term prime minister ‘advising Matt Hancock and other Tories on vaccines strategy’ because he believes he can improve ‘inadequate’ leadership Mr Blair is powerful figure in the fight to use vaccines to save lives and economy Sunday Times said he offered ‘strategic advice’ to Hancock several times … Read more
Viewers have been left baffled after Matt Hancock appeared to be giving interviews from his downstairs loo on Sunday. The Health Secretary appeared on The Andrew Marr Show on BBC and Sky News’ Sophy Ridge on Sunday via video call to discuss the current state of vaccination roll-out in the UK. But many were distracted … Read more
Viewers have been left baffled after Matt Hancock appeared to be giving interviews from his downstairs loo on Sunday. The Health Secretary appeared on The Andrew Marr Show on BBC and Sky News’ Sophy Ridge on Sunday via video call to discuss the current state of vaccination roll-out in the UK. But many were distracted … Read more
Health Secretary Matt Hancock has today defended his plans for the mass rollout of rapid Covid-19 testing for people who cannot work at home during the lockdown, after the pilot faced efficacy issues. Asked if the lateral flow rapid turnaround tests being deployed across England were the same as those used in a Liverpool pilot scheme Mr Hancock told the BBC’s Andrew … Read more
Britons are ‘highly likely’ to need a Covid vaccination every year for the ‘foreseeable’ future, Matt Hancock has today warned, as he also revealed 200,000 people a day are now receiving their first dose of the jab. The Health Secretary said the UK could require an ‘dual vaccination programme’, with yearly jabs to protect against … Read more
Britons are ‘highly likely’ to need a Covid vaccination every year for the ‘foreseeable’ future, Matt Hancock has today warned, as he also revealed 200,000 people a day are now receiving their first dose of the jab. The Health Secretary said the UK could require an ‘dual vaccination programme’, with yearly jabs to protect against … Read more
The return of Tony Blair? Ex-Labour leader and three-term prime minister ‘advising Matt Hancock and other Tories on vaccines strategy’ because he believes he can improve ‘inadequate’ leadership Mr Blair is powerful figure in the fight to use vaccines to save lives and economy Sunday Times said he offered ‘strategic advice’ to Hancock several times … Read more