Coming up at the top of the hour on @BBCTwo …
https://twitter.com/BBCNewsnight/status/1408467587462270984
From tonight’s early Newsnight… a Hancock half hour… of sorts…
https://twitter.com/BBCNewsnight/status/1408491113015566340
Opposition calling for Health Sec to be fired by the PM - note we obviously asked the Government, backbench MPs and former aides to defend him - no one was available
https://twitter.com/bbcnewsnight/status/1408490969482383366
One of the team behind the leaked photo video scoop Harry Cole on the wider implications of the Health Secs actions…
https://twitter.com/bbcnewsnight/status/1408494509764272129
Can Health Sec stand at podium to ask people to extend any form of restrictions, continue to wear masks even really say slogan “hands face and space” again… this is the view from Gabriel Pogrund, who first reported on the appointment of his friend as a non exec director
https://twitter.com/bbcnewsnight/status/1408494680099151876
And Ayesha Hazarika on the public reaction to these events;
https://twitter.com/bbcnewsnight/status/1408494870285754374
And our Ben Chu surveys how public attitudes to political scandals appear to have changed…
https://twitter.com/bbcnewsnight/status/1408496673454764032
Also mentioned on show that public acceptance of ongoing restrictions can not be taken for granted - eg widespread booing, multiple times, of the safety announcements to wear masks at the england match on Tuesday - eg far more audible than eg anything when the team took the knee
…Which is not a representative sample obviously, but one of the few events where a temperature can be taken in a large crowd. It’s clearly a particularly sensitive time for anyone needing to send clear message on ongoing adherence to social restrictions…
FDA chief just talking to Mishal about role of non exec director in holding a department to account… what we referred to last night - minutes from the DHSC board attended by the Health Secretary’s friend - lessons learnt exercise on first six months of COVID/ dhsc performance 
Actually why hasn’t this been published?
“Board heard how the Department is applying a continuous approach to learning lessons from Covid-19 response. Reflections of first 6 months into Covid-19 response were presented to the Board as a snapshot to inform wider policy making.”
“Board heard how the Department is applying a continuous approach to learning lessons from Covid-19 response. Reflections of first 6 months into Covid-19 response were presented to the Board as a snapshot to inform wider policy making.”
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