Former health secretary Matt Hancock thought he should be the person to decide who would live or die if NHS care had to be rationed.
Former health secretary Matt Hancock thought he should be the person to decide who would live or die if the NHS became overwhelmed during the coronavirus pandemic, the UK Covid-19 Inquiry has heard.
"I felt that we are well served by the medical profession, in consultation with patients to the greatest extent possible, in making those kinds of decisions."Covid inquiry hears ex-PM asked why destroy economy 'for people who'll die soon' This claim turned out to be untrue, she suggested, when people in government realised the plan had given no consideration to how non-pharmaceutical interventions such as lockdowns would work in practice.
She said it symbolised the "nuclear levels of confidence" being deployed in government, "which I do think is a problem".EX-PM Boris Johnson has taken a beating at the inquiry this week, as some of his most senior aides who made up his inner circle in government, took to the stand to criticise their former boss.
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