Lord Sedwill joked it was necessary to remove Matt hancock to ‘save lives and protect the NHS’.

Ex-Cabinet secretary Lord Mark Sedwill told the Covid inquiry he was concerned the health secretary wanted a meeting ‘for communications purposes’.

The singer’s fellow finalists included Matt hancock, who was singled out as being ‘really good at lying’

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Here is what the British newspapers are talking about this Friday.

Former health secretary was seen as an overconfident ‘liar’ during the pandemic, according to former colleagues

Mr Johnson said NHS and social services had ‘failed to grip the decades old problem of delayed discharges’.

Dominic Cummings asked whether the true problem was him ‘calling hancock “a lying c*** killing people’” or ‘hancock actually being a lying c*** killing people’

Lord Simon Stevens, who led NHS England, largely refused to criticise the former health secretary during his appearance before the Covid inquiry.

Former NHS boss Sir Simon Stevens tells the Covid inquiry the "horrible dilemma never crystallised".

‘Fortunately this horrible dilemma never crystalised,’ former NHS England head Simon Stevens tells inquiry

Ex-NHS chief Simon Stevens, who made the claim, saiid that should have been a decision for doctors

Former NHS and health chiefs appearing before Covid inquiry on Thursday

Helen MacNamara tells Covid inquiry of ‘macho’ culture where ‘hundreds’ broke rules on a daily basis

Helen MacNamara, who served as deputy cabinet secretary, made the claim to the Covid inquiry.

A former civil servant has said that Matt hancock displayed “nuclear levels” of overconfidence and pretended to be a cricketer batting off challenges during the coronavirus pandemic. Helen MacNamara, who served as deputy cabinet secretary, told t ...

It is the latest damning piece of evidence about Mr hancock’s stewardship of the Department for Health during the pandemic given to the official Covid probe

Boris Johnson may have wanted to keep Matt hancock as Health Secretary as a ‘sacrifice’ for the Covid-19 inquiry, Dominic Cummings has claimed.

The former health secretary was criticised by the former top Downing Street adviser during a lengthy appearance before Lady Hallett’s probe.

‘I feel a sense of injustice at being made to be essentially accused of corruption,’ former health secretary says