Sign up Thank you for subscribing We have more newsletters Show me See our privacy noticeHealth Secretary Matt Hancock wouldn’t dare lie to the public that patients were being tested for coronavirus before returning to care homes, a Tory MP has said, claiming he “sh**s at his own shadow”. Cummings told MPs last Wednesday: "We were told categorically in March that people would be tested before they went back to care homes. "The government rhetoric was we put a shield around care homes - it was complete nonsense”. (Image: Getty Images)One Tory MP said: “He wouldn’t dare go on telly to promise what he thought he couldn’t deliver. (Image: Getty Images)The insider also claims Hancock and NHS boss Sir Simon Stevens were in chaos.

Source: Daily Mirror May 30, 2021 00:02 UTC