Hancock Doing a Q&A At 10 On Sky News

Sunday 3 May - Grant Shapps 
Fewer people would have died from coronavirus in the UK if the country had greater testing capacity sooner, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has said.
Speaking on Sunday, Mr Shapps said “many things” could have been different if the UK’s testing capacity was above 100,000 before Covid-19 spread in the country.
Asked whether fewer people would have died if testing capacity had been greater sooner, Mr Shapps told BBC Andrew Marr Show: “Yes.

Tuesday 5 May - Sir Patrick Vallance
The UK failed to ramp up coronavirus testing quickly enough in the early stages of the pandemic, the Government's chief scientific adviser has admitted.

Sir Patrick Vallance told MPs on the health select committee that testing is "just part of the system that you need to get right" as he was quizzed about the management of the Covid-19 outbreak. In early March, ministers promised to expand the number of tests carried out each day to 10,000 at a time when just over 1,200 people had been tested in total.

A week later Boris Johnson announced the ambition of carrying out 25,000 tests a day, but provided no detail, with just 5,779 tests carried out that day. By this point the World Health Organisation had urged countries to "test, test, test" if they wanted to contain the outbreak.

Asked if there is anything he would have changed about how the outbreak was handled in the UK, Sir Patrick said: "I think that probably we, in the early phases, and I've said this before, I think if we'd managed to ramp up testing capacity quicker it would have been beneficial."

Wednesday 6 May - James Brokenshire
James Brokenshire has been speaking on BBC Breakfast, and pushed on the UK’s death toll, which is now the highest in Europe, Brokenshire said after the pandemic there will be a chance to see “what mistakes have been made”.

Pushed on testing, Brokenshire said the government decided to stop testing and tracing for coronavirus in the community on March 12 due to a “shift” in expert advice. He said:

"We’ve always been informed by the expert advice in this. There was a shift in terms of how testing was done - we’ve already heard about some of the issues of overall capacity at that point of time and some of the evidence that (Sir) Patrick Vallance, our chief scientific officer (sic), has given."

Asked whether, had there been the capacity, track-and-tracing should have continued, the Home Office minister said:

"Would there have been benefit in having that extra capacity, as Patrick Vallance highlighted in his evidence yesterday? Yes.

The challenge that we had was that we have some fantastic laboratories, some fantastic expertise, but it has been the capacity restraints that we have had, and therefore that has posed challenges, but also that has now been ramped up to go from 2,000 tests (per day) in February to 120,000 at the end of April."

So, it's over to you Matt, are you going to stick to your guns, continue with the "right things at the right time" mantra ?
Or will you finally concede that things could have bene done better ?

You will feel much better if you open up and let it all out.
You know it, I know, the forum knows it.

Your so called mates have been setting you up as the fall guy for some time, and you continue, on a daily basis, to make it so easy for them to do so.

Here is your change to show a bit of humility, regardless of the tone adopted by Kay Burley

Do it Matt, utter the words that you know need to be said, speak the truth.

If you choose not to, all is not lost. Cider will continue to back you up