Britain entered lockdown three weeks too late in 2020, former health secretary Matt Hancock said on Thursday, as he criticised a “toxic culture” in Boris Johnson’s government that hampered ministers’ response to the crisis.
Hancock, who has been accused of lying to former top aides and civil servants in evidence so far, told the Covid-19 inquiry that he tried to “wake up Whitehall” to the virus’s threat in early 2020 but senior officials ignored him.
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