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

⏱️ 100 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. Follow me: https://beacons.ai/diaryofaceo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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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.
0:05.8	How does that all feel for you personally?
0:08.2	That thought that one week earlier we could have saved 21,000 lives.
0:11.7	There were some mistakes that we made in terms of the measures, how they were brought in.
0:16.8	Well now you see Stephen you're getting into Gotcha question.
0:19.4	No, I genuinely.
0:20.4	It's just all total rubbish.
0:22.0	No, no, I've not even asked the question yet if there needs to be
0:24.2	boundaries you know no no those rules yeah were not in place can I ask the
0:29.2	question you can ask a question I'm gonna ask a question I'm gonna ask
0:31.1	it's just this bit is really hard for me. People say you were a contradiction.
0:34.7	Yeah. What's your response to that? When I started the driver CEO I wanted to create a platform where we get to see behind
0:50.6	the scenes where we get the truth where we get the truth, where we get the context.
0:54.4	That is at least my attempt. The rest of it is up to the viewer to decide what they make of the
0:59.9	conversation and what they take from the conversation.
1:03.0	And the same applies to this episode.
1:06.0	So without further ado, I'm Stephen Bartlett,
1:08.0	and this is the diary of a CEO.
1:10.0	I hope nobody's listening.
1:11.0	But if you are, then please keep this to yourself. Matt was really really keen to have you come and join me in my in my kitchen here in
1:27.0	London to talk in a long-form way about a ton of different things that are front
1:31.6	of mind for you that have gone on over the last couple of years.
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