Matt Hancock
How to have an affair
Gstaad After six-and-a-half months apart, I had no trouble recognising my wife. Out she came on to the driveway to…
The Prince Harryfication of Boris Johnson
The acting one sees upon the stage doesn’t show how human beings actually comport themselves in crises, but simply how…
Matt Hancock isn't the only politician who is clueless about cyber security
It is widely acknowledged that Britain has some of the world’s finest cyber capabilities. GCHQ is a global leader in…
How I missed the Matt Hancock story
How I missed the Hancock story
Portrait of the week: Hancock out, Javid in and MoD papers found at a bus stop
Home A lively game of hunt the issue followed the resignation of Matt Hancock as Secretary of State for Health…
The Nicola Sturgeon effect on house prices
Nicola Sturgeon depresses me and seems to be having the same effect on Scottish house prices. In a housing market…
Will Sajid Javid champion the end of Covid restrictions?
As the row over Matt Hancock’s relationship with his married adviser Gina Coladangelo continues to dominate the news, attention in…
Hancock has made a mockery of his own rules
How much trouble is Matt Hancock in? The Sun splashes this morning on the Health Secretary’s affair with aide Gina…
The hypocrisy of Matt Hancock
Matt Hancock has not, we can agree, made it his business to lighten the public mood during the pandemic. That…
Dominic Cummings still needs to back up his allegations
When Dominic Cummings, the Prime Minister’s former chief advisor, gave evidence to the Covid-19 ‘lessons learned’ joint select committee last…
Cummings's messages aren’t a ‘bombshell’ revelation
On days like this, I despair of the media-political village where I’ve spent most of my adult life. Because that…
Speaker blasts Boris again over lockdown announcement
The government has just suffered a further verbal drubbing for the way it announced it would be delaying the roadmap…
Is Matt Hancock trying to spin a vaccine supply crisis?
Matt Hancock was tremendously smiley when he led Wednesday’s coronavirus press briefing. In between beaming, he managed to tell us…
A tighter lockdown risks being a less effective one
When lockdown was first proposed in March, one of the many arguments against it was that people would tolerate being…
The delicate balancing act of lockdown messaging
Matt Hancock spent Monday evening trying to explain a very delicate tension to the public. There’s the good news of…
The truth about me and Dominic Cummings
It is such a relief that Dominic Cummings has gone. Not for the sake of the country or the government…
Trust is fraying – a circuit break would save it
Nearly a month ago I called for an urgent 24-day full national lockdown, arguing that the restrictions were unlikely to make a significant…
Boris Johnson’s human shield
At a Conservative party conference fringe event last Sunday, Lord Bethell, a health minister, was asked where he thought Britain…
The vaccine goalposts have shifted
British Health Secretary Matt Hancock provided a vaccine update this morning London time, reporting that the chances of the Oxford…
Three hours to prepare for a local lockdown
My weekend plans have somewhat been ruined by Matt Hancock tonight. The government has announced new lockdown restrictions for over…
Social distancing destroys our lives as social beings
A lockdown diary is an oddly negative thing. At the dinner parties that we aren’t going to, we aren’t discussing…
Who is in charge of the government?
Boris Johnson is still officially recuperating from coronavirus at Chequers and is ‘not doing government work’, according to No. 10.…
If anything is ‘essential’ right now, it’s cigarettes
The owners of my local grocery shop, a mile or so from my house, very kindly sell me cigarettes in…
How worried should we be about coronavirus?
Coronavirus may be more widespread than we think – and less deadly
Matt Hancock’s Boris endorsement irks One Nation Tories
Is Boris Johnson’s route to No. 10 now unstoppable? The former foreign secretary has more MPs backing him than any…
