E121: Matt Hancock: Opens Up About His Affair, Mistakes & The Pandemic

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

FlightStory

Society & Culture, Business, Education

4.6 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2022

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Summary

Matthew Hancock is the MP for West Suffolk, the former Secretary of State for Health, and was responsible for leading the country through the COVID-19 pandemic until his time as Health Secretary was brought controversially to an end in summer 2021.

For the first time, Matt speaks candidly on what it was like to lead a country through a once-in-a-century pandemic, and the circumstances surrounding his resignation. When I started this podcast, I wanted to bring you conversations that allow us to see behind the scenes, to give the context and this conversation is no different. You do not have to agree with Matt but I think after this episode today we will have the answers we’ve all been waiting for.

This is not your typical political interview. This is a conversation that definitely needed to happen.

Topics:

Why did you want to have this conversation here?
Your early years
Diversity in politics
Why did you get into politics and why would you want to?
How can you be the minister for all these different areas?
You running for Prime Minister
When covid hit
What was your life like at that time?
If you’d known a pandemic would roll in would you have taken the health secretary job?
The care home mistake
Isn’t our high number of deaths an indicator that wrong decisions were made?
The first vaccine - showing your emotions
The CCTV footage
The parties at number 10
Dominic Cummings
Your Dyslexia campaign
Do you feel like you’ve addressed what you wanted to from this conversation?
The last guest question

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Transcript

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0:00.0	One of the reasons I wanted to come in and talk to you was because I want to just talk freely.
0:05.7	How does that all feel for you personally?
0:08.2	That thought that one week earlier we could have saved 21,000 lives.
0:11.6	There were some mistakes that we made in terms of the measures.
0:14.9	Yeah. How they were brought in.
0:16.5	Well now you see Stephen you're getting into gotcha question.
0:19.2	No I genuinely just don't talk rubbish.
0:21.8	No no I'm not. I've not even asked the question yet.
0:23.6	If there needs to be boundaries you won't be getting.
0:25.0	No no no those rules were not in place.
0:28.5	Can I ask the question?
0:29.5	You can ask a question.
0:30.6	I'm going to ask a question.
0:31.8	This bit is really hard for me.
0:33.1	People say you were a contradiction.
0:34.6	Yeah. What's your response to that?
0:38.9	Could you do me a quick favor if you're listening to this?
0:40.4	Please hit the follow or subscribe button.
0:42.3	It helps more than you know.
0:43.5	And we invite subscribers in every month to watch the show in person.
0:46.2	When I started the Diover CEO I wanted to create a platform
0:49.3	where we get to see behind the scenes where we get the truth,
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