Hancock says he has been เล่นเกมสล็อตฟรี "straight with people in public and private throughout".

Every day since he started working on the response to the pandemic last January, he said he thinks "what must I do to protect life?".

"That is the job of a health secretary in a pandemic," he says.

Hancock says he has taken an approach of openness, transparency and explanation of what we do and do not know.

He says he's attended the House of Commons more than 60 times since January 2020 and he and the prime minister have taken part in 84 press conferences, as well as answering questions from the public, media and colleagues.

He says "sometimes what we've had to say hasn't been easy" and the government has had to "level with people" when things have been going in the wrong direction.

"What matters remains the same - getting vaccinated, getting tested, delivering for our country. Overcoming this disease and saving lives - and that is what matters to the British people," he says.