Assembled after the fact, these ‘diaries’ strain the usual definition – and the patience of those wanting a fuller account of government mistakes
‘There are kernels of truth in here, some uncomfortable, about why politicians make the decisions they do.’ Matt Hancock outside parliament.‘There are kernels of truth in here, some uncomfortable, about why politicians make the decisions they do.’ Matt Hancock outside parliament.Last modified on Tue 13 Dec 2022 06.02 GMTAnd what distinguishes the best – from Alan Clark and Tony Benn to Alastair Campbell and more recently Sasha Swire – is the willingness to be vulnerable.
Hancock is bullish in dismissing what he calls “incredibly hurtful” allegations, mostly in the Guardian, about the handling of government Covid contracts. He still insists the biggest unwitting virus spreaders in care homes were staff moving between them, not patients being discharged from hospital untested. Perhaps we’ll have to wait for the public inquiry to rule on all that, although Hancock does concede those staff movements could in hindsight have been stopped earlier.
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