Enter the Fall Guy. The broken messiah crucified for his vision. Tended only by Gina Magdalene. The man who had tried to show us the light. Show us the way. Stuck in his own echo chamber of hallelujahs. Rejected and despised by his people. Yet who would one day be worshipped and adored for centuries to come. Yes, it turns out that the biggest victim of the pandemic was Matt Hancock himself. How could we have all been so slow to realise this?
Alas poor Door Matt. For the past few months, most of his former colleagues have been queueing up to dump on him from a great height. Led by Dominic Cummings. Who else? The man without a good word to say about anybody had given pages of evidence to the Covid inquiry, listing all the lies Matty had told during his stint as health secretary. Then the good-natured Helen MacNamara had also branded him a liar. Mark Sedwill had blamed him for thousands of deaths. Et tu, Patrick? Vallance had called him a fantasist. Truly there was no honour for this prophet in his own land.
