‘He’s full of …’: what the Queen and the Prime Minister said about ‘poor man’ Matt Hancock | UK News

The Queen and Boris Johnson held their first face-to-face meeting since the start of the pandemic and one of the hot topics was the Health Secretary.

During their weekly audience at Buckingham Palace, part of which was filmed, the monarch told the Prime Minister: “I just spoke to your Secretary of State for Health – poor man. He has come for the Privy Council. . It is full of …. “

Without letting His Majesty finish his sentence, Mr Johnson replied: “Lots of beans”.

Unperturbed, the Queen continued her momentum, saying, “He thinks things are improving.”

The Prime Minister replied: “They are. In the sense that we are …”

The Queen and Mr Johnson have been conducting their hearings by telephone since the outbreak began in the UK last year.

But the monarch welcomed Mr Johnson to his private courtroom on Wednesday, where his black purse could be seen perched on a chair nearby. “Good afternoon. It’s nice to see you again,” the monarch said with a broad smile.

Mr Johnson said: “Nice to see you again. It’s been 15 months.”

The Queen replied, “Is that right? 15 months. It’s really extraordinary, isn’t it?”

The two were together at the G7 summit earlier this month, but they last held a weekly face-to-face hearing on March 11, 2020.

They switched to the phone a week later, as the Queen prepared to socialize at Windsor Castle.

She retreated to the royal residence of Berkshire in what has been dubbed the HMS Bubble with the Duke of Edinburgh just before England entered its first nationwide lockdown.

Mr Johnson and the Queen were pictured speaking by phone from Downing Street and Windsor on March 25 last year.