Ever since he left government, Matt Hancock’s closest allies have claimed that Boris Johnson and his top team at No 10 would try to set him up as the “fall guy” for the government’s mistakes during the pandemic.
Over the last few days at the Covid inquiry in central London, it looked like these fears had been realised. Witnesses opening up to the inquiry have only lightly rejected repeated claims that Hancock regularly said things during the pandemic that were not true.
