Disgraced Matt Hancock told lawyers he should be immune from court action over Covid blunders – just days before the WhatsApp scandal broke.
He said he should not carry the can for his department’s failure to safeguard care home residents simply because he was Secretary of State – and that it should be the whole Government instead.
And the Tory who happily lapped up publicity on I’m A Celeb moaned that lawyers pursuing him “were chasing tabloid headlines” in a talk over his book, Pandemic Diaries.
