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Matt Hancock might have to rewrite one of the chapters of his memoirs after the High Court today ruled that the government’s policy towards care homes at the start of the Covid pandemic was illegal.
The former health secretary and the government went on endlessly about the ‘protective ring’ they were throwing around the country’s most vulnerable residents.
But the High Court said today that the policy of not isolating people discharged from hospital to care homes was ‘irrational’.
BREAKING: High Court has ruled that the government broke the law by failing to protect care home residents from Covid-19 during the pandemic.
The govt claimed it had put a 'protective ring' around them. The High Court has decided it failed. Huge moment for families of victims.
— Paul Brand (@PaulBrandITV) April 27, 2022
Extraordinary stuff, even for this government. And it prompted no end of reactions.
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“We got all the big calls right.” pic.twitter.com/t7V7mq1CuO
— Adam Bienkov (@AdamBienkov) April 27, 2022
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It's incredible how this government (and compliant sections of the press) simply kept repeating the mantra that Boris Johnson and his corrupt regime did a good job – or the best job possible – in dealing with Covid and people ended up believing it. https://t.co/LwytMIQoRW
— Nooruddean (@BeardedGenius) April 27, 2022
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Wow. Massive moment. Nails the repeated lie from @BorisJohnson @MattHancock that they put a ‘protective ring’ around care homes. They didn’t – they illegally turned them into human slaughterhouses. https://t.co/4TbQTdWpw4
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) April 27, 2022
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Got.. Covid.. Done https://t.co/6KkGlbBQko pic.twitter.com/jJd0IqEYgr
— HappyToast ★ (@IamHappyToast) April 27, 2022
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— HappyToast ★ (@IamHappyToast) April 27, 2022
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Ask yourself: which big calls are they “getting right” today?
— Larry the Cat (@Number10cat) April 27, 2022
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That's the end of Matt Hancock's podcasting/roll neck/book midlife crisis then, presumably.
— John Harris (@johnharris1969) April 27, 2022
But LBC presenter James O’Brien might have said it best in this devastating 2 minute monologue.
'What they actually did was fire infected bodies into buildings containing the single most vulnerable cohort of human beings in our country!'@mrjamesob takes aim at the Government after its care homes Covid policy was ruled illegal. pic.twitter.com/UlpEgO7Ced
— LBC (@LBC) April 27, 2022
And you can follow @mrjamesob on Twitter here.
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