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Portrait of the week: Hancock out, Javid in and MoD papers found at a bus stop

3 July 2021

9:00 AM

3 July 2021

9:00 AM

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A lively game of hunt the issue followed the resignation of Matt Hancock as Secretary of State for Health after the Sunpublished a photograph of him kissing an aide, Gina Coladangelo, in May, in contravention of the law at the time on meeting indoors. The Prime Minister had tried to declare the matter ‘closed’ when Mr Hancock apologised, but some Tory MPs and many citizens were scandalised that the man in whose name coronavirus restrictions were made law (as statutory instruments) should exempt himself from their strictures.

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