Boris Johnson was out to pull the wool over people’s eyes again yesterday after claiming it was he who gave Matt Hancock the boot.
Unfortunately, many of us are old enough to remember last Friday, when Downing Street said the prime minister accepted the health secretary’s apology and “considered the matter closed”.
At the time, Hancock appeared to have dodged a bullet, with Mirror reporter Pippa Crerar highlighting a clear appetite to bury the bad news.
After Hancock resigned, the PM set out to try rewrite history in front of our very eyes.
Labour deputy leader Angela Rayner accused Mr Johnson of trying to take credit for the resignation and said that “serious unanswered questions” remain.
And Peter Stefanovic was in no mood to let our charismatic, truth-twisting leader get away with it.
The PM took quite the pasting on social media too.
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Related: Alternative Hancock resignation video is ‘almost as cringeworthy as original’
