{"id":38314,"date":"2023-12-01T13:57:47","date_gmt":"2023-12-01T13:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/?p=38314"},"modified":"2026-06-10T15:22:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T14:22:19","slug":"we-need-protecting-from-him-anger-as-matt-hancock-appears-at-covid-inquiry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/2023\/12\/01\/we-need-protecting-from-him-anger-as-matt-hancock-appears-at-covid-inquiry\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;We need protecting from him&#8217; &#8211; Anger as Matt Hancock appears at Covid inquiry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Former Secretary for Health and Social Care, Matt Hancock is currently appearing at the COVID Inquiry hearings and \u2018X\u2019 users have taking to social media to voice their feelings towards Hancock&#8217;s handling of the pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A video has been posted on \u2018X\u2019 by Lorelei King showing Hancock leaving the inquiry yesterday with the caption saying \u201cthere was a whole line of inquiry employees in front of us. He doesn&#8217;t need protecting from us\u2026 our loved ones need protecting from him\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another user asks \u201cWhy is this Matt Hancock not in Prison serving a long sentence\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Matt Hancock&#39;s media adviser warning him in April 2020: &quot;I know&#8230; people dying in care homes are often people who were near the end regardless, but I worry that if a load of people in care start dying, there will be front pages demanding why we weren&#39;t testing people&#8230;&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NEvivGNk5K\">pic.twitter.com\/NEvivGNk5K<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Adam Bienkov (@AdamBienkov) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AdamBienkov\/status\/1730558879770055114?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 1, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The financial handling of the pandemic has also been criticised by Alan Molineaux who stated, &#8220;the \u00a337b allocated to Test &amp; Trace was a political decision. Imagine if they had given all 8,145 GP surgeries in the UK \u00a31million each they would still have \u00a328.9b left&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Matt Hancock was in the inquiry hearing this morning and former Prime Minister, Boris Johnson will be giving evidence to the inquiry next week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hancock has defended his handling of the pandemic and yesterday claimed thousands of lives could have been saved if the first lockdown in March 2020 had started three weeks earlier. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A long day at the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CovidInquiry?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CovidInquiry<\/a>. When Matt Hancock left, there was a whole line of inquiry employees in front of us. He doesn&#39;t need protecting from us, a group of bereaved women. Our loved ones needed protecting from him. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/59DSN87PoX\">pic.twitter.com\/59DSN87PoX<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Lorelei King\u2764 loreleiking@bluesky.social (@LoreleiKing) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LoreleiKing\/status\/1730330658336083990?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 30, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Secretary for Health and Social Care, Matt Hancock is currently appearing at the COVID Inquiry hearings and \u2018X\u2019 users have taking to social media to voice their feelings towards Hancock&#8217;s handling of the pandemic. 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