The health secretary, once so Tiggerish, thumped the dispatch box in frustration
Every cloud has a silver lining. While the increasingly prolonged Brexit trade negotiations – Boris Johnson and Ursula von der Leyen appear on a mission to prove Zeno’s paradox – made most of the headlines in the past week, the coronavirus has been relegated to the second item on most news bulletins.
Which proved an unexpected bonus for Matt Hancock as he found his workload dramatically reduced. Only one Downing Street press conference, in which he had precisely nothing to say, and a single Commons appearance in which he did a victory lap of honour after the first vaccine was administered. Otherwise not much really. It was almost a week off.
