BEREAVED families shamed former Health Secretary Matt Hancock today for “blaming everyone else” in his evidence to the Covid inquiry.

Confronting him with posters of her late husband, Lorelei King, said: “I don’t accept his apology.

“Mr Hancock just seemed to be largely blaming everyone else.

“I don’t accept his apology. None of the bereaved that I’m with accept his apology.”

Her husband Vincent Marzello, 72, suffered from young onset dementia and was living in a care home when he died of the virus in March 2020.

Ms King, 69, from London, held up a poster of him shaking hands with Mr Hancock when he visited his home in 2018, captioned: “You shook my husband’s hand for your photo op.”

Her other poster was of her husband’s coffin and the words: “This was my photo op after your ‘ring of protection’ around care homes.”

Charles Persinger, 58, confronted the former MP dressed as the Grim Reaper.

Mr Persinger, who lost his wife and his mother to coronavirus, one month apart, shouted sarcastically as Mr Hancock got into his car: “I’m a big fan of your work.”

Jean Adamson, 59, whose father died of Covid-19 in a care home also accused Mr Hancock of being “disingenuous” and refusing to take “any responsibility” in his testimony to the inquiry.

Mr Hancock claimed every Western country “missed” preparation around lockdowns and that responsibility for ensuring pandemic preparedness in social care “formally fell to local authorities.”

He added the World Health Organisation assumed asymptomatic transmission of Covid wasn’t possible until April 2020.

Shadow social care minister Liz Kendall said: “His apology will provide little comfort to the 43,000 families who lost loved ones to Covid in care homes.”