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🗓️ 1 November 2023
⏱️ 36 minutes
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0:00.0 | BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
0:04.7 | Hello, another quite astonishing day at the COVID inquiry. |
0:09.6 | Today we were hearing from Helen McNamara, |
0:12.3 | who was the deputy cabinet secretary, |
0:14.6 | and until now has only spoken to Laura Kay |
0:18.3 | for her magisterial documentary |
0:20.0 | about the last 10 years in British politics. |
0:22.3 | Today she was talking about what it was like being in the room |
0:25.8 | when all the big decisions were made or not made about COVID, |
0:28.8 | and she painted this amazing image |
0:31.3 | of the health secretary at the time, Matt Hancock. |
0:33.9 | And if you've ever seen or heard Matt Hancock, |
0:36.5 | and we all have, you can totally picture this. |
0:39.9 | He reassured me that he was, quotes, |
0:43.0 | loving responsibility. |
0:45.2 | And to demonstrate this, |
0:46.6 | took up a batman's stance outside the cabinet room |
0:51.0 | and said, they bowed them at me, I knocked them away. |
0:54.3 | How did Matt show attitudes like that affect |
0:56.5 | the country's response to coronavirus? |
0:58.7 | Helen McNamara spilled her version of the beans, |
1:01.6 | which we will discuss on this episode of newscast. |
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