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Boris Johnson’s biggest asset is that most people never want to think about Covid-19 again

There is little desire among voters to revisit the mistakes of the past traumatic year.

By Stephen Bush

Taxi for Matt Hancock? Today’s papers are uniformly awful for the Health Secretary, who is facing questions about what he did to protect care homes last year and the promises he made (or didn’t make) about testing capacity. 

The reason why Hancock has a target on his back is the testimony of Dominic Cummings, whose allegations that the Health Secretary lied repeatedly about care homes have brought all of last year’s stories about the tragedy in care homes back to the surface. 

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