Matt Hancock has dropped a number of bombshells in his shameless Covid diaries. The ' I'm a Celebrity ' star discusses a number of topics in his juicy novel including his social distance-busting affair, reports the Mirror.
After missing Parliament for nearly five weeks, the disgraced former Health Secretary is back to promote Pandemic Diaries, giving his account of what happened at the top of government during the pandemic.
We have combed through the all 592 pages of Mr Hancock’s diaries and here are the best bits.During May 2020 the government added a loss of taste/smell to an official list of Covid isolation symptoms.
However, Hancock claims he knew of the symptom months before then.On March 18, 2020, he writes: “Nadine [Dorries], as ever in the vanguard of the epidemic, says she’s lost her sense of smell and taste and everyone she’s infected has got the same thing.“Strange: that’s not one of the official symptoms.