However, he said that when he passed on the warning to fellow ministers at a Cabinet meeting three days later, the reaction was “shrug shrug” as they did not really believe it. “The reaction was somewhat ‘shrug shrug’ – essentially because they didn’t really believe it. Mr Hancock suggested that Boris Johnson had been reluctant to engage on the issue. Mr Cummings subsequently told a parliamentary inquiry that he repeatedly urged Mr Johnson to sack Mr Hancock for lying. Earlier, Mr Hancock endured some gentle teasing as he appeared for the first time in the Commons since his appearance on I’m A Celebrity.

Source: The Star December 02, 2022 19:29 UTC