Dead man walking Matt Hancock should be long gone as Health Secretary.
His incompetence has tainted the position time and again throughout the Covid pandemic, yet he remains in office.
He is only there because our morally empty Prime Minister wants a scapegoat when the time of reckoning comes over the Government’s ineptitude.
Never mind that the vaccine programme has been a stunning success.
That is due to the dedication, professionalism and downright stamina of our NHS heroes and the scientists who rushed the jab into production in record time.
At every political level the Government has failed and Hancock has been at the heart of every failure.
None more grievous and shocking than his callous disregard for the welfare of our elderly loved ones in care homes.
We have documented and exposed the painful saga throughout the crisis, from the early transfer of Covid patients from hospitals to care homes to the tragic and appalling death rate.
Every stone turned exposes Hancock’s culpability.
If there is one name on the list of those who need to answer for the tens of thousands of “unnecessary” deaths claimed by Dominic Cummings, it is Hancock’s.
Now, as Hancock tries to get off the hook of lying over the testing of transferred patients we say he has to go.
He sought to convince the PM and colleagues that testing was being done when his department were ordering that they were unnecessary, sending patients untested in care homes. He gave the orders.
For the sake of the national health: Go now.
