A hipster Filipino restaurant which provided almost £50,000 of taxpayer-funded food to Matt Hancock’s civil servants has been driven out of business by the government’s Covid lockdown. Despite fulfilling ten orders worth thousands each from the Department of Health in the early weeks of the pandemic, Bong Bongs Manila Kanteen in Hackney, east London, was crippled … Read more
We are gradually becoming a totalitarian state. Ministers are encouraging people to spy on their neighbours, the police are urged to abandon their normal duties to disturb us in the privacy of our homes, and pub and restaurant owners are required to use Gestapo-like tactics with their customers. Millions are again prevented from meeting friends … Read more
Droopy-eyed, theatrical hams are forever grumbling about the relentless grind. Six shows a week, plus matinees on Thursdays and Saturdays. Non-stop, dears! Still, there’s always the adulation to look forward to. The applause, the whistles, the occasional late night supper at The Ivy, courtesy of a star-struck dowager. The Health Secretary’s now near-daily performances at … Read more
Matt Hancock breezed in, loving life at the forefront of this new authoritarian regime: HENRY DEEDES watches the Health Secretary on presumptuous form in Parliament By Henry Deedes for the Daily Mail Published: 22:06 BST, 13 October 2020 | Updated: 22:21 BST, 13 October 2020 What a cocky figure Matt Hancock cut as he entered … Read more
MAIL ON SUNDAY COMMENT: Matt Hancock’s failures are no laughing matter By Mail on Sunday Comment for the Daily Mail Published: 07:56 BST, 11 October 2020 | Updated: 07:57 BST, 11 October 2020 Once again a leading supporter of imposing stringent rules on the rest of us has been caught not taking his own position … Read more
The new coronavirus tracing app was hit by another fiasco last night after it blocked tens of thousands of users from logging their test results. The app asks users to input a special pin code when they receive their results. But humiliatingly for the Government, only those tested privately for Covid actually received the code. … Read more
Britain is not entering a second wave of coronavirus infections and rising numbers of cases are a result of increased, more accurate testing picking up infections among younger people, experts say. Health Secretary Matt Hancock yesterday warned that the UK ‘must do everything in our power’ to stop a second surge of people going into … Read more
Business leaders rage at Matt Hancock’s ‘scaremongering’ talk about a second lockdown as they warn of ‘untold damage’ to businesses trying to recover from coronavirus lockdown Business leaders responded with shock and disbelief to Mr Hancock’s comments He said that England could face restrictions and very extensive local lockdowns He also warned he warned other countries … Read more
Ministers were today asked to prove that two new rapid coronavirus tests bought to bolster Britain’s war on coronavirus even work. The tests – which give results in 90 minutes – will start being rolled out from next week. One is so simple it could soon be deployed in airports, offices, pubs and restaurants – … Read more
The Government performed a dramatic U-turn over its heavily-delayed coronavirus tracking app today and agreed to use an existing system developed by tech giants instead. Ministers are expected to set out this afternoon that they are scrapping custom-made software for the NHSX app and use a system already developed by Apple and Google. The phone … Read more