Boris Johnson has first in-person weekly audience with Queen in 15 months

Released video from Buckingham Palace shows monarch referring to Matt Hancock as poor man'

The Queen has held her first in-person weekly audience with the prime minister in 15 months, and revealed that the woes of the beleaguered health secretary Matt Hancock might not have escaped her eye.

In a short video clip of the meeting with Boris Johnson, the Queen informed him she had been speaking to your secretary of state for health, poor man".