Thread by @AdamWagner1

I hadn’t realised, as Matt Hancock seems to have just admitted on @GMB, that the image of him was taken on 6th May 2021, when we were still in step 2. This w meant any gathering of more than one person indoors for social purposes was prohibited by law

https://twitter.com/ochalecho/status/1620332957243412483

In his book, he is vague about when the relationship started, I assumed deliberately vague. He may have been blindsided on TV and got the date wrong, I thought it was later, because the image came out later.

I hadn't realised that it had been reported earlier last year that the image was from 6th May 2021 (theguardian.com/politics/2022/…)

I have said before that I suspect Hancock broke the law and now I strongly suspect that. This is because indoor social gatherings were prohibited in law (not just guidance) until 17th May 2021, when Step 3 came into force. Before that, Step 2 was in force

This was Step 2

https://twitter.com/AdamWagner1/status/1374016258983784451?s=20

And this is Step 3

https://twitter.com/AdamWagner1/status/1393595889701298176?s=20

This is what I said in #EmergencyState - I thought Hancock was lucky to avoid a police investigation

This is what Hancock says in his book - he's understandably vague about it

https://twitter.com/AdamWagner1/status/1599102876042768384?s=20

No surprise if Hancock doesn't understand his own law - from my @prospect_uk review of his book prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/matt-…

Here is the bit of the interview - he is either confused about when the event happened, or what the law was (wouldn't be the first time), or is being economical with the truth

https://twitter.com/GMB/status/1620336782637236225?s=20&t=VAS6SkGGO1CMTL8o3wPmNQ