Former Chief of Staff to the Prime Minister Dominic Cummings has revealed a series of explicit messages apparently from the Prime Minister damning his Health Secretary.
In a long awaited blog post backing up allegations that he made in front of a House of Commons Committee, Cummings, Boris Johnson called Matt Hancock “totally f—— hopeless” in a WhatsApp message to Cummings
In response to one message from the ex-chief of staff, saying DHSC had turned down ventilators at this critical point because prices had been marked up, Mr Johnson appears to have said:
‘It’s Hancock. He has been hopeless.”
In another, responding to criticism of Mr Hancock’s work building the UK’s testing capacity, he said: “Totally f—– hopeless”.
A third message called the situation regarding PPE “a disaster” and said: “I can’t think of anything except taking Hancock off and putting Gove on.”
