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THE SNP have denied media reports of a Covid affair between two unnamed politicians – calling the stories “categorically untrue”.

FORMER first minister Nicola Sturgeon has hit back at Matt Hancock’s Covid inquiry jibe where he accused her of “spin”...

Watch again as former health secretary Matt Hancock gives evidence at Britain’s Covid inquiry on Friday 2 December.

Health secretary during pandemic accepts that ‘consequences of rule-breaking’ may have affected ‘public’s propensity to adhere to rules’

The dereliction of Boris Johnson and his allies is daily being laid bare, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett

Hancock appears before inquiry again after conceding government should have locked down earlier and denying claims that he is a liar

Trolled by the lead counsel’s tie, Door Matt resolved not to get rattled – easier said than done

A back-pedalling Matt Hancock came unstuck (again), the ‘two gentlemen of corona’, Vallance and Whitty, were candid, clear and balanced – but overall the hearings will play badly for the Conservative Party, says Sean O’Grady, as he looks ahead to next week’s appearance by Boris Johnson

The former minister said the country should have locked down earlier but he understood why it did not happen