Hancock ‘a most useful Health Secretary’
The Justice Secretary has criticised calling Matt Hancock “hopeless” after Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s damning messages about the Health Secretary were revealed by Dominic Cummings.
Robert Buckland said yesterday that such comments do “nobody any service at all” as he insisted Mr Hancock commands the government’s “full support”.
Mr Cummings, the PM’S chief aide until he walked out in November, revealed a series of Whatsapp messages between himself and Mr Johnson as he continued their war of words.
One exchange included the Prime Minister describing Mr Hancock as “totally f***ing hopeless” while discussing testing early in the coronavirus pandemic.
Mr Buckland told Sky’s Trevor Phillips on Sunday: “To bandy around words like that does nobody any service at all. He’s been a most useful and dynamic Health Secretary who enjoys our full support.”