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Evening Standard
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Tristan Kirk

Matt Hancock tells Covid Inquiry: We could have done more to keep schools open

Schools could have stayed open in the pandemic if the government had acted quicker to order the second national lockdown, Matt Hancock has claimed.

The former Health Secretary said he argued for tougher restrictions from September 2020 amid rising numbers of cases of Covid-19, and believes the UK was too slow to lockdown during the autumn of that year.

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