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How I missed the Matt Hancock story

How I missed the Hancock story

3 July 2021

9:00 AM

3 July 2021

9:00 AM

I want to apologise: I have let myself down. I let others down too, and I’m sorry. Not because, Matt Hancock-style, I breached social distancing guidelines with a steamy office affair — but because I missed the scoop. I was sent a compromising picture of the then health secretary and his mistress almost a week before the Sun newspaper sensationally revealed their relationship — and I did not believe it was him.

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