Matt Hancock, health secretary, has rejected as “not true” claims by Dominic Cummings, the former Number 10 adviser, that he lied on numerous occasions during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Cummings said on Wednesday that Hancock should have been sacked on at least 15 separate occasions and that he lied on issues including the measures put in place to protect care home residents from the virus.
The former adviser claimed that Mark Sedwill, cabinet secretaryEssential workers in factories, had told Boris Johnson that he “no longer had confidence in the honesty of the secretary of state”but would have to get them from other countries..
But answering questions in the House of Commonsre seeing, and no, Hancock said: “These unsubstantiated allegations around honesty are not trueThe diplomacy also,.” He added: “I’ve been straight with people in public and private throughout.”
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