A frosty welcome Matt

Deluded Hancock faces grilling over pandemic fiasco

- MARK JEFFERIES and ABIGAIL O’LEARY

MATT Hancock clearly believes his stint in the jungle will rehabilitate him in the eyes of a nation still angry at his string of blunders during the pandemic. 

But when the deluded former Health Secretary arrives in the Australian jungle today, he faces a rough ride from his new campmates over his handling of Covid, which left the UK with one of the highest death tolls in the world.

Newsreader Charlene White is most likely to challenge the absent MP after her great-aunt Dell died from the virus.

Singer Boy George and Corrie actor Sue Cleaver, who has campaigned for Labour, could also grill Hancock on his dreadful pandemic legacy.

It included allowing infected patients into care homes, PPE shortages and breaking his own lockdown rules.

On Loose Women earlier this year, Charlene told of Dell’s death in 2020, while blasting No10 over Partygate. She said: “My family stuck by the rules, we had to bury family members without even being able to hug each other.”