Matt Hancock has defended government deals to buy individual safety equipment (PPE) during epidemic, saying that the country was in “desperate situation” at that time.

In a poor-tempered session in Covid inquiries, the former Health Secretary repeatedly criticized the line of question describing as “naive”, “hostile” and “unfair”.

He said that he was “not surprised at all” when a so -called VIP lane was installed for PPE suppliers with a political connection, it was described as “standard exercises”.

At one point, the president of the inquiry, Barona Hallet intervened, in which Hancock said that it was his job to learn lessons for any future epidemic.

Hancock Kovid was visible for the fifth time in the inquiry, which is now checking the purchase and distribution of £ 15bn of PPE in the epidemic, along with test kits, ventilaters and other pieces of medical equipment.

He defended a public “call to arms” made at the Downing Street News Conference on 10 April 2020 for more PPE UK suppliers.

The investigation has heard from the previous witnesses, including the former Chief Commercial Officer of the government, Sir Gareth Rice Williams, that the appeal was reverse, leading to a large number of approaches, threatening to overwhelm the system.

“We were fundamentally low of PPE (at that time) and the country was about to exit at the national level,” Hancock told the investigation.

“No one has testified that the call for weapons did anything other than PPE … so I am standing on it.”

The former Health Secretary was then asked about high priority lane, or VIP lane, which was established by officials in the Health Department in England, which helps to manage proposals by giving priority to people referred to by a member of the House of Lords or Senior Civil Servant.

Hancock said that he was not involved in designing the system, which he said that he was targeted for “a large amount of the principles of the conspiracy”.

The investigation introduced an expert report from the law Professor Prof. Albert Sanchez-Groles at Bristol University, which was important for the approach and found no evidence of equal priority in Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland or other countries around the world.

Hancock said, “It is fine that the academics write papers about this stuff … but you understood what it (at that time).”

“The pressure to save life was intense, but it was reality that high quality proposals would be sent through senior decision manufacturers, and you would have to do a process to deal with it.”

He said that other countries will have their own systems to prioritize the proposal by different ways for PPE and medical equipment.

Hancock was later asked about a £ 30M contract to a firm run by Alex Born, who was the owner of a pub in his West Safok constituency to make vials for covid testing.

Email shows that Hancock passed the then Health Minister Lord Bethel from Mr. Born on communication, in which his analysis of the comprehensive testing system was described as “very interesting criticism” from “very impressive man”.

In interrogation, Hancock stated that he worked with “errorless behavior” at the time, and the chief advocate of the inquiry Richard Wald KC accused Cherry-Picking “Messages of messages”, with “the most tubode interest”.

He said that the investigation had obeyed the “completely naive” line, ignoring the reality of the situation at that time, while the “very pejorative” statements “were completely inappropriate”.

At the conclusion of his evidence, Barrows Halat told Hancock that “was” not the first and I am sure that the final witness to think would not be the investigation that the investigation is about criticizing all people “.

He said, “My aim is to check what happened, to find out cases of public anxiety, people to respond to areas, and to try to come up with recommendations that will save life,” he said.