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Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, a Spectator's Daily Politics podcast.

I'm Isva Hartman and I'm joined by James Fisthe and Katie Balls.

Well, today Matt Hancock has hit back at Dominic Cummings's allegations that were made in his seven and a half hour evidence session yesterday.

Katie, has Hancock come out fighting against these claims?

Yes, he has come out fighting.

We've also seen a bit from Boris Johnson, two of the same vein.

But that was only a pool clip.

And when it came to Matt Hancock, he was speaking in the chamber and ultimately put it a strong defence of himself,

though when pressed on very specific questions, such as, well, tell us exactly what happened

with care homes, did not give as precise an answer, or perhaps he did give, another way

looking is he did give a precise answer, but I don't think it's what you could, you know,

a blanket denial

of those charges. And therefore, I think it was probably a fairly almost sympathetic audience for

him because it was Tory MPs and they clearly felt as though there'd be an operation by the Whips

beforehand to shaw him up to ask, you know, helpful questions. And Labour MPs, on the other hand, did ask

questions. But there were ultimately, you know, lots of things. It wasn't really precise enough,

I think, to really give him too much heat. And I think as Matt Hancock has to answer more questions,

such as in today's press conference from journalists, you may come under a bit more pressure, but ultimately it's quite clear that the health secretary's

general line is that he did nothing wrong and ultimately he thinks that he should be in his job

and also he's quite happy about what he did. It's not even an apologetic tone in anywhere.

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