British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Health Secretary Matt Hancock have defended themselves against allegations made by Dominic Cummings, Johnson’s former top advisor in Number 10. Giving evidence on Wednesday to the health and science committees of the House of Commons, Cummings said the government had failed the public during the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus pandemic, causing thousands of people to die unnecessarily. He said his former boss is “unfit” to be prime minister, and said the health secretary should have been fired for lying on multiple occasions. In response, Hancock said the allegations were “unsubstantiated” and were “not true.” Answering questions on Thursday in the House of Commons, he said: “I’ve been straight with people in public and in private throughout. Every day since I began working on the response to this pandemic last January, I’ve got up each morning and asked ‘what must I do to protect …