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.
ITV News' Libby Wiener was live with the latest from the Covid-19 inquiry. Words by Lewis Denison, Westminster Producerthought he should be the person to decide who would live or die if the NHS became overwhelmed during the
"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." 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". An apparently flippant attitude toward vulnerable people and the following of the Covid advice he issued was exposed explicitly during the testimony of former communications director Lee Cain, ex-chief adviser Dominic Cummings and the deputy Cabinet secretary from the time Helen MacNamara.
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