Piers Morgan blasts Matt Hancock asking why he hasn’t resigned as Health Secretary
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Piers Morgan blasts Matt Hancock asking why he hasn’t resigned as Health Secretary
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Piers Morgan this morning blasted health Secretary Matt Hancock’s handling of the ‘world class testing system’ and asked him why he is yet to resign.
The GMB host interrogated Mr Hancock, who made a rare appearance on the show, calling the test and trace system a ‘complete shambles’.
Piers was in an unforgiving mood as he sounded out the record number of deaths in the UK as a result of Covid-19, which now totals over 50,000.
Mr Hancock watched on apprehensively as Piers also questioned the initial policy of herd immunity which is believed to have been pushed by Sir Patrick Vallance and Dominic Cummings.
Piers demanded answers from the Health Secretary and questioned why community testing was stopped at a crucial time of the pandemic.
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Piers said: “We stopped community testing at a crucial time because we were pursuing according to Sir Patrick Vallance and Dominic Cummings a policy of herd immunity which we then screechingly reversed. The world class testing system you promised us in January, it is still a complete shambles.
“So I put it to you, given that we now have over 50,000 deaths in this country which is the worst death toll in the whole of Europe, why are you still Health Secretary and why haven’t you offered your resignation?
Mr Hancock replied: “Well because we’ve been building the response to all of these enormous challenges of this unprecedented pandemic.”