MP Ben Wallace defends Boris Johnson after reports of him missing Cobra meetings
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The Defence Secretary , inset, defended the Prime Minister after the Sunday Times claimed he had skipped five meetings of the Cobra emergency committee about Covid-19, and sent Health Secretary Matt Hancock in his place.
Mr Wallace took to Twitter and said: “First as security minister for over three years and now as Defence Secretary I have probably attended more Cobra’s than anyone else in cabinet.
“It is normal for them to be chaired by a secretary of state. PM’s don’t “skip” Cobra’s. What a load of nonsense the Insight [The Sunday Times investigative team] story is.