A Tory minister was put on the spot about Matt Hancock's "embarrassing" leaked pandemic WhatsApp messages on last night's BBC Question Time.
Graham Stuart moved to distance himself from the ex-Health Secretary's alleged comments about teaching unions during a razor-sharp interrogation by host Fiona Bruce on Thursday evening's show.
It came after Matt Hancock appeared to call the unions "a bunch of absolute a***s" in screenshots of a private Whatsapp conversation with Gavin Williamson published by The Telegraph this week.