Pandemic Diaries
The Inside Story of Britain’s Battle against Covid
Matt Hancock and Isabel Oakeshott Biteback Publishing, £25
As health secretary for just under three years from July 2018 to June 2021, Matt Hancock was one of the main figures in the UK government’s response to the Covid pandemic. His legacy, however, will be forever defined by revelations of an affair with an aide at a time when he was still telling the, co-written with political journalist Isabel Oakeshott, is his attempt to make the case for the decisions that he took during the 18 months from the emergence of the virus in China to his departure.
