The Matt Hancock Phone-In, live on LBC: Watch In Full

27 April 2020, 15:20 | Updated: 7 June 2023, 08:56

The Matt Hancock Phone-In | Nick Ferrari | LBC

Health Secretary Matt Hancock answered questions from LBC listeners in the first phone-in with a Cabinet minister since the coronavirus crisis began - watch it in full right here.

Mr Hancock took calls from members of the public about whatever questions people wanted to ask him about the UK's response to Covid-19.

From testing to the lockdown and facemasks to the return of sport, this was the chance to question the Health Secretary on the most serious public health issue any of us have ever witnessed.

Watch the Matt Hancock phone-in in full at the top of the page.

Matt Hancock insists facemasks not planned for the UK yet

The Health Secretary spoke to Nick Ferrari last week and insisted he's very confident they will meet the target of 100,000 coronavirus by Thursday's deadline.

And he dismissed speculation that the UK will require people to wear facemasks to go out in public - as is the case in a number of other countries - saying evidence they are helpful in stopping the virus is "extremely weak".

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