The answer to Matt Hancock's question about why British people work when sick is simple – Joyce McMillan
over 4 years in TheScotsman
It was a small news story, this week, but an oddly revealing one. Speaking to a joint session of the Westminster Parliament’s Health And Social Care and Science And Technology committees, the health secretary, Matt Hancock, was to be heard deploring what he called the great British public’s “peculiar” habit of going to work when they are unwell.