Health secretary leaps into bizarre rant against nay-sayers promising to fail to meet future Covid testing target
In recent months, Westminster has slid so far through the looking glass that there must be a severe shortage of psychedelics on sale in SW1. Forget – just for a moment – that the government is now openly boasting about breaking international treaties in its bid to become a failed state and start to sweat the smaller stuff. On Tuesday, the health secretary gave a statement to the Commons in which he completely forgot why he was there and only revealed what he had meant to say about extending lockdown restrictions via leaks to journalists later that evening.
No matter. The following day, the prime minister gave a Downing Street press conference in which he merely repeated all the things Matt Hancock had said on Twitter the night before. So there was something entirely predictable about Matt returning to the Commons on Thursday to repeat all the things he had meant to say on Tuesday but were already in the public domain thanks to his own Twitter leaks and the Boris Johnson press conference. It would surprise no one if No 10 were to hold another presser tomorrow to clarify what Hancock had said today.
