TwelveAngryMen
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Presumably though they do their own and the Govt ministers have been pulled for quoting capacity for testing the public
Presumably though they do their own
Govt ministers have been pulled for quoting capacity for testing the public
That would make sense. He has previous for this type of word play. 1 billion gloves delivered which he extrapolated to 1 billion pairs...I suspect the discrepancy might be in the wording... I.e 226K individual tests vs 226k individuals tested.
Hancock said the daily numbers were 226,000 individual tests on the Andrew Marr Show yesterday
Being called out on it this morning by Morgan as his own department don’t seem to comfortable in confirming what he said was right
Not sure why it’s made so hard to confirm simple numbers
I suspect the discrepancy might be in the wording... I.e 226K individual tests vs 226k individuals tested.
You can see the interview with Marr and the ' call out ' on PM's twitter feedIt's all here: https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/testing, 233k is the last reported figure for tests (18th), presumably 226k would've been the number for the 19th, it's not clear to me why this hasn't been updated yet.
I don't know what (Piers?) Morgan is calling out, if you could provide further details maybe we could look further.
It was the Department of Health who distanced themselves from the figure when asked to confirm it
They felt ' the figure wasn't that clear cut '
Dr Mike Yeadon calls Hancock out for being deliberately misleading here. (long read)
It's on Morgan's twitter feedCan I have a link to that?
It's on Morgan's twitter feed
You've asked what Morgan says and then say his Twitter feed is unreliable.So not a reliable source then.
You've asked what Morgan says and then say his Twitter feed is unreliable.
It's a video of this morning's TV piece - Susanna Reid reads the response from the Dept Of EducationSo not a reliable source then.
But where’s the evidence that “his own department don’t know where he got that number from”?It's a video of this morning's TV piece - Susanna Reid reads the response from the Dept Of Education
It's a video of this morning's TV piece - Susanna Reid reads the response from the Dept Of Education
So you don't have any evidence to support Hancock eitherYes, saw that.
From the way it sounds they most likely they rang up the DoH press office at 7pm on Sunday, got through to the stupidest junior press officer imaginable (or possibly the cleaning lady), and rather than a sensible holding response they managed to badger some poorly chosen words out of him.
Somehow this then morphs into "Hancock is lying" when I'm quite sure we'll see once the figures are published that the 226k was tests performed 99.99% of which were almost certainly on separate individuals.
It would be like ringing up your office junior, badgering him about highly technical legal points and then accusing you of telling porkies when he didn't know how you came to your opinion on a particular matter.
So you don't have any evidence to support Hancock either