The health secretary has given his most considered response so far to the revelation last week that Boris Johnson called him 'totally fucking hopeless' in a text to Dominic Cummings in March last year. Asked on BBC Breakfast whether it was embarrassing to be described as ‘hopeless’ by the prime minister, Hancock said: ‘No, it isn’t really because of all the things we’ve delivered together. Of course we’ve had obstacles, and we’ve had people that we’ve had to deal with on the way'
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