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The health secretary is only kept around to be the fall guy – and there’s nothing he can do about it
When your luck is out, your luck is out. And right now Matt Hancock can’t seem to buy himself an even break. Dominic Cummings and his cabinet colleagues are lining him up as the fall guy for when the coronavirus crisis eventually ends – no point getting rid of him any sooner or someone else might have to also take the rap – and there’s nothing he can do about it.
Hell, he doesn’t even get any credit for having survived the coronavirus without much fuss. Brave Boris still gets a free pass for having gone into intensive care, but Hancock’s recovery is by and large ignored. He’s just the schmuck that has to suck it up. He’s in way too deep to get away with saying what he’d always really thought: that Johnson was never fit to be prime minister. So he can only look on in envy at Jeremy Hunt for having had an uncharacteristic fit of self-worth by turning down a cabinet job and reinventing himself as one of the good guys. Jezza, the man who did more than anyone to cut back the NHS, now on the side of the angels. Who’da thunk it? Continue reading...