Matt Hancock grilled over his handling of the pandemic on Celebrity SAS

Matt Hancock grilled over his handling of the pandemic on Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins. Source: Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins, Channel 4

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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.