Matt Hancock

Matt Hancock summoned to High Court to justify why non-essential shops can reopen before pubs

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Matt Hancock has been ordered by the High Court to justify why non-essential shops will be allowed to open before the full return of pubs and restaurants. It comes after Pizza Express founder Hugh Osmond and nightclubs operator Sacha Lord launched a legal challenge claiming the Government has ‘failed’ to provide evidence for delaying the … Read more

Government sets up a new taskforce to create a Covid super pill that combats effects of the virus

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Government aims to create a Covid ‘super pill’ that combats effects of the virus and can be taken as soon as someone tests positive Matt Hancock is setting up an Anti-Virals Taskforce to provide further protection  Its key aim is to produce a tablet to be taken as soon as someone tests positive Full details … Read more

UK taxpayers pumped £21m in to fitting out Dutch vaccine factory that EU have now blocked

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UK taxpayers pumped £21million into fitting out a Dutch vaccine factory to make AstraZeneca jabs before the EU threatened to ban their export from the continent.  Health Secretary Matt Hancock approved the multi-million pound investment in the Halix factory in Leiden with the guarantee that doses would be sent to the UK. Initially, it was hoped … Read more

UK taxpayers pumped £21m in to fitting out Dutch vaccine factory that EU have now blocked

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UK taxpayers have pumped £21million in to fitting out a Dutch vaccine factory that the EU has now threatened to ban jabs being exported from.  Health Secretary Matt Hancock approved the multi-million pound investment in the Halix factory in Leiden with the guarantee that doses would be sent to the UK. Initially, it was hoped that … Read more

Coronavirus: People living with someone with weak immune system to be put on jab priority list

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Healthy under-50s who live with an adult with a weak immune system will be added to the UK’s Covid vaccine priority list. Health Secretary Matt Hancock confirmed today that all adults who share a home with someone who is immunocompromised will be offered a vaccine by mid-April. Those include people living with someone who is … Read more

Matt Hancock says trips abroad ‘may well’ happen this summer

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Hope for holidays? Matt Hancock says trips abroad ‘may well’ happen this summer but leaves viewers cringeing as he describes the ‘red room’ office where he does interviews as a ‘boudoir’ during appearance on ITV’s This Morning Matt Hancock suggested that foreign holidays are not off the cards this summer Insisted the situation on travel … Read more

Rebel Tory MPs carry MILK around as symbol of protest at draconian Covid laws

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Tory MPs have vowed to carry a pint of milk around as a symbol of protest against draconian coronavirus laws – amid warnings Boris Johnson will face demands to recall Parliament if he announces crunch decisions on lockdown during the Easter recess. In a slightly surreal act of defiance, Sir Charles Walker has insisted he … Read more

Hancock hails Covid jabs for saving more than 6,000 lives by the end of February

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Mass coronavirus vaccination sites across the UK have announced they will close temporarily next month due to looming supply issues – as Matt Hancock revealed the jabs have saved at least 6,000 lives already in the UK.  Vaccine centres in Devon, Cornwall and Kent are among those to have confirmed they will ‘have to pause’ during … Read more

Hancock hails Covid jabs for saving more than 6,000 lives by the end of February

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Mass coronavirus vaccination sites across the UK have announced they will close temporarily next month due to looming supply issues – as Matt Hancock revealed the jabs have saved at least 6,000 lives already in the UK.  Vaccine centres in Devon, Cornwall and Kent are among those to have confirm they will ‘have to pause’ during … Read more