Matt Hancock: Tory Aide and Polling Day

matt hancock: The incident escalated when Matt Hancock, the health secretary, was dispatched to Leeds General Infirmary in an effort to show that the party was taking the case seriously, according to The Independent. But Johnson's team ended up trying to deflect the story on to Labour by wrongly briefing that a Tory aide was punched outside the hospital by a leftwing activist. With just days to go until polling day, the Tories suffered one of their worst days of the campaign as Johnson refused on camera to look at a picture of the poorly child and pocketed the phone of the reporter who tried to show it to him. The claims quickly turned out to be untrue when video footage showed that the adviser was accidentally brushed in the face. This is a new low and the Conservative party has serious questions to answer. The Tories are so desperate to distract from a four-year-old boy sleeping on a hospital floor because of their cuts to the NHS that, once again, they have resorted to barefaced lying, a Labour spokesperson said. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.