With Covid running riot across Britain almost six-and-a-half years ago, Matt Hancock insisted a ‘protective ring’ had been thrown around our care homes.
If his soothing noises sounded unconvincing at the time, they proved even less so as death tally increased. Now the official inquiry into the crisis has found that Mr Hancock’s grandiose claims could hardly be further from the truth.
The report by Baroness Heather Hallett is littered with words and phrases that should haunt the former health secretary for the rest of his days. Initial failures created environments ‘in which the virus could spread like wildfire’, it says.
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