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Matt Hancock grilled over his handling of the pandemic on Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins. Source: Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins, Channel 4
Transcript
00:00 How do you feel about how it all ended then with regard to the pandemic?
00:04 I was managing a very difficult situation in a professional sense.
00:08 Mm-hmm.
00:09 Thought I'd done a pretty good job.
00:12 And then...
00:13 And then it f***ing fell apart.
00:18 I fell in love with somebody who I'd known since I was at university and worked closely
00:22 with in the pandemic.
00:25 And I had to resign from government.
00:27 Let's put this in Vietnamese terms, number one.
00:30 Basically, the rules that you've established as a country to follow, you think, "You know
00:37 what?
00:38 I'm above this.
00:39 I'm bigger than the system."
00:40 Yeah, I didn't think that.
00:42 I'm talking.
00:43 F***ing listening, yeah?
00:46 You think, "F*** this.
00:47 I'm going to have a bit of that.
00:50 I'm going to break the rules here.
00:52 I'm going to break the rules there."
00:54 On a number of occasions.
00:56 I'm sitting on this side of the table.
00:57 That's exactly how it went down.
01:00 From the background.

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