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The former health secretary told a colleague “they bowl them at me, I knock them away” as he swung an imaginary bat outside the Cabinet Room.The bizarre incident was an example of the “nuclear levels of confidence” shown by Hancock and other senior politicians at the time, according to former top civil servant Helen MacNamara.
In her written evidence to the probe, she recounted having a conversation with Hancock about the pressure he was under at the time.She said: “He reassured me that he was ‘loving responsibility’ and to demonstrate this took up a batsman’s stance outside the Cabinet Room, and said, ‘they bowl them at me, I knock them away’.”
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