Hancock’s Covid charge sheet: what he is accused of and how he replied

Matt Hancock said the allegations ‘demonstrate a lack of generosity or empathy and understanding the difficulty of rising to such a big challenge’. Photograph: UK Covid-19 Inquiry/PA

Matt Hancock, the former health secretary, has come in for huge criticism from other witnesses to the Covid inquiry, from scientists to civil servants and political advisers. These are their key allegations, and his responses:

Dominic Cummings, a former senior adviser to Boris Johnson, said in a text message during the pandemic: “I also must stress I think leaving Hancock in post is a big mistake – he is a proven liar who nobody believes or shd believe on anything, and we face going into autumn crisis with the cunt in charge of NHS still.”