Opinion: Matt Hancock is the real deputy prime minister in this crisis

The health secretary’s approach to fighting the coronavirus gives him the upper hand against ministers eager to get Britons back to work. If the trade-off is between saving lives and saving jobs, saving lives is always going to win

Instead of keeping the rate of infection within the capacity of the NHS, it seems that Hancock wants to try something more ambitious: to suppress the virus altogether, using the programme of “test, track and trace” that he announced on Thursday.and Hancock’s answer was significant.

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