Matt Hancock says sorry for Covid
The News Agents
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4.1 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 27 June 2023
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Matt Hancock appeared before the Covid inquiry to offer a profound apology. He threw the government pandemic strategy under a bus with his assessment that the covid strategy had been “completely wrong“.
Two years ago our gratitude to health workers knew no bounds.
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| 0:11.7 | And if I may say so, I am profoundly sorry for the impact that had. |
| 0:18.5 | I'm profoundly sorry for each death that has occurred. And I also understand |
| 0:26.5 | why for some it will be hard to take that apology from me. That was Matt Hancock today at the |
| 0:34.9 | COVID inquiry. We have talked often on the news agents about why it is |
| 0:39.1 | that politicians find it so hard to say, sorry. Today, there was an abundance of sorrow and regret |
| 0:48.8 | from the former health secretary. So today we're going to chat a little bit about what has come out of |
| 0:55.1 | Matt Hancock's appearance before the COVID inquiry, what it tells us about our relationship |
| 1:00.2 | to our health service and to those who work within it, and also to the attitude that the government |
| 1:06.6 | now has towards those asking to have their wages paid. |
| 1:11.8 | Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 1:16.4 | The Newsagents. |
| 1:18.2 | It's John. |
| 1:19.2 | It's Emily. |
| 1:19.8 | And it's Lewis, who is looking annoyingly brown and tanned from his holiday in Spain. |
| 1:26.0 | Have you two left this room since I've been away? |
| 1:28.0 | We haven't been together since June the 9th. |
| 1:31.4 | June the 8th, I'm being corrected. |
| 1:33.6 | That was the last time the three of us were in newsagents H-Kee. |
| 1:36.5 | Does someone keep a little record of that? |
| 1:38.0 | Yes. |
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