Hancock was a winner in Coronavirus when so many others were losers. Losers in lives and jobs. Hancock was a winner, because he did very nicely and so did his chums in taking advantage of the poor state his health service was in, in order to tackle a pandemic. He lost a High Court action for the way he handled the VIP treatment of giving out contracts, to dubious persons and exercising no due diligence. He bluffed his way through a mounting death toll. He covered up his complete incompetence. He splashed tax payers money on failed ventures, PPE and Test n Trace, Nightingale Hospitals. He was a failure. He was responsible for 130,000 plus needless deaths. He was the worse Health Minister in Europe, the 5th worse out of 200 countries worldwide. He had presided over wave after wave of coronavirus cases and had no answers, only lies. Hancock was like a ship sailing stormy seas with a crew none of whom were seaworthy. Then a few weeks ago a ghost from his past, Dominic Cummings, fired several torpedoes into his rusty hull. It was a major blow, and though the same parliamentarians that heard Cummings accusations, let Hancock off the hook, his days were clearly numbered as Doctors and Nurses turned against him, as did care home workers, and the bereaved families. The Sun clearly had inside information, and decided enough was enough. They set up a sting operation to get their man, and Hancock was caught, banged to rights. The clamour for him to go now reached fever pitch and his wife was publicly humiliated as were his 3 children. Now after 11 years in politics I would hope he just fades away first to a hideout then to end his term as a Suffolk MP on the back benches, before disappearing for good. And Good Riddance to bad rubbish.
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Matthew John David Hancock (born 2 October 1978) is a British politician who served as Secretary of State for Health and Social Care from 2018 to 2021. He previously served as Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport in 2018, for six months. A member of the Conservative Party, he has been Member of Parliament (MP) for West Suffolk since 2010.
Hancock was born in Cheshire, where his family runs a software business. Hancock studied for a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) at Exeter College, Oxford, and an MPhil in Economics at Christ's College, Cambridge. He was an economist at the Bank of England before serving as a senior economic adviser and then later Chief of Staff to Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne.
Hancock served as a Junior Minister at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills from September 2013 to May 2015 and was the United Kingdom Anti-Corruption Champion from 2014 to 2015. He attended David Cameron's Cabinet as Minister for the Cabinet Office from 2015 to 2016. After Theresa May became Prime Minister in 2016, Hancock was demoted to Minister of State for Digital and Culture. He was promoted to May's Cabinet in the January 2018 cabinet reshuffle when he was appointed Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport.
On 9 July 2018, after the promotion of Jeremy Hunt to Foreign Secretary, Hancock was named as his replacement as Secretary of State for Health and Social Care. He served as Health Secretary during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom and subsequent rollout of the UK's vaccination programme.
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