HEALTH Secretary Matt Hancock has been having a secret affair with a close friend and aide.
He cheated on his wife with Gina Coladangelo, 43, who he hired last year with taxpayers’ money, as Covid gripped Britain.
He was seen kissing her in video footage at the Department of Health’s London HQ during office hours last month as the mutant strain began spreading.
A Whitehall whistleblower told The Sun it was “shocking that Mr Hancock was having an affair in the middle of a pandemic with an adviser and friend he used public money to hire”.
Last night, a friend of the Health Secretary said: “He has no comment on personal matters. No rules have been broken.”
Mr Hancock was pictured embracing his aide. The image was from just after 3pm on May 6 — as the rest of Westminster was engrossed by the local elections.
Read our Matt Hancock blog below for the latest news and updates…
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HITTING THE ROAD – MATT HANCOCK MISTRESS GINA COLADANGELO PICTURED PACKING CAR AS AFFAIR IS REVEALED
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‘YOU CAN TALK’
Matt Hancock skewered Professor Lockdown Neil Ferguson for his affair during Covid – just a year before his own.
The Health Secretary stressed the importance of social distancing and criticised the professor’s “extraordinary” behaviour during the first lockdown – but Hancock has now broken the rules himself.
In the clip from May 2020, the Health Secretary condemns the actions of Neil Ferguson – who broke Covid rules to meet his married mistress Antonia Staats.
Mr Hancock said he was left “speechless” by Prof Ferguson’s “extraordinary” behaviour, and said it had been right for him to resign as a government Sage adviser.
Matt Hancock said on Sky News at the time: “The social distancing rules are there for everyone, they’re incredibly important and they’re deadly serious.
“And the reason is they are the means by which we’ve managed to get control of this virus.”
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SLAP IN THE FACE
Grieving families who have lost loved ones to coronavirus have written to the Prime Minister after he refused to sack Matt Hancock in the wake of his secret affair being exposed.
Bereaved Brits have slammed Boris Johnson's decision to keep the Health Secretary as a "slap in the face" to the thousands of families of Covid victims.
Despite preaching the importance of social distancing and lockdown rules during the pandemic, the father-of-three cheated on his wife with his closest aide Gina Coladangelo, 43, who he hired last year with taxpayers’ money.
But Hannah Brady, who lost her father Shaun, 55, to the virus, has hit out at Mr Hancock and said he "has treated bereaved families with contempt".
She believes the 42-year-old should have already been struck off for his failures and is infuriated that the PM "considers the matter closed".
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WATCH – AWKWARD HANCOCK AND GINA AFFAIR VIDEO
Married Matt Hancock was today branded a hypocrite for canoodling with his mistress despite preaching to the nation to hug “carefully”.
We exclusively revealed the Health Secretary’s affair with aide Gina Coladangelo, including how they were caught on camera snogging on May 6.
To watch the video click here
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SORRY, NOT SORRY
Matt Hancock has today broken his silence to admit he "breached social distancing rules" – but failed to apologise to his wife of 15 years after his explosive affair was revealed by The Sun.
The Health Secretary, 42, refused to resign and instead said he "has let people down and is very sorry" as he faces calls to be sacked by Boris Johnson for his brazen steamy clinch in Whitehall.
In his very short statement, in which he failed to apologise to his wife or acknowledge his behaviour, he said: "I accept that I breached the social distancing guidance in these circumstances.
"I have let people down and am very sorry.
"I remain focused on working to get the country out of this pandemic, and would be grateful for privacy for my family on this personal matter."
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WIFE OF 15 YEARS
During the pandemic, the office has provided the backdrop to his Zoom appearances on TV — including the Andrew Marr Show.
Mr Hancock is seen checking the corridor is clear before closing the door and then leaning on it to ensure he cannot be disturbed.
Ms Coladangelo then walks towards him and the pair begin their passionate embrace.
According to a whistleblower, who used to work at the department, the pair have regularly been caught in clinches together.
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WATCH: LABOUR’S ANNELIESE DODDS SAYS BORIS JOHNSON MUST SACK MATT HANCOCK
Labour’s Anneliese Dodds says Boris Johnson must sack Matt Hancock for breaking Covid rules by snogging aide
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WHO IS GINA COLADANGELO?
Millionaire mum-of-three Gina Coladangelo is communications director at Oliver Bonas, the fashion and lifestyle store founded by her husband Oliver Tress.
She is also a director and major shareholder at lobbying firm Luther Pendragon, which offers clients a “deep understanding of the mechanics of government”.
Matt Hancock secretly appointed Coladangelo to the Department of Health and Social Care as an unpaid adviser on a six-month contract in March last year.
It sparked claims of a ‘chumocracy’ in November, when it also emerged she had accompanied Hancock to confidential meetings with civil servants and visited No10.
In September, Hancock appointed Coladangelo as a non-executive director at DHSC, meaning that she is a member of the board that scrutinises the department.
There was no public record of the appointment, which was set to see her earn at least £15,000 of taxpayers’ money, potentially rising by a further £5,000.
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POLICE WILL NOT INVESTIGATE HANCOCK
Police say retrospective investigation into UK Health Secretary Hancock's coronavirus breach will not be pursued.
Met police, asked about Matt Hancock’s alleged covid breach, says it will not investigate retrospectively: “We will focus on those (breaches) that are live, or where police action can enable a change to behaviour that is posing a current public health risk”
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WHISTLEBLOWER 'SURPRISED HANCOCK WAS SO BRAZEN' ABOUT AFFAIR
According to a whistleblower, who used to work at the department, the pair have regularly been caught in clinches together.
The source said: “They have tried to keep it a secret but everyone knows what goes on inside a building like that.
“I’m just amazed he was so brazen about it as he was the Secretary of State.
"It has also shocked people because he put her in such an important, publicly-funded role and this is what they get up to in office hours when everyone else is working hard.”
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BORIS STANDS BY HANCOCK
Boris Johnson is NOT firing Matt Hancock over his secret affair and "considers the matter closed", Downing Street said this afternoon.
The PM has accepted the Health Secretary's grovelling apology for snogging his top aide – in an astonishing breach of his own social distancing rules.
Mr Hancock is desperately clinging on to his job despite enormous pressure for him to resign following the explosive revelations in The Sun today.
Labour has branded his position "hopelessly untenable" and that the PM was "spineless" for defying a crescendo of calls to axe the Health Secretary.
A No10 spokesman this afternoon said: "The Health Secretary set out that he accepted that he breached the social distancing guidelines.
"Obviously he has apologised for that. The Prime Minister has accepted the health secretary's apology and considers the matter closed."
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EXPLOSIVE AFFAIR
Mr Hancock was seen kissing her at the Department of Health’s London HQ during office hours last month as the mutant strain began spreading.
Matt Hancock married his wife Martha, an osteopath, in 2006 and the pair have three children together.
The couple lives in Little Thurlow in his West Suffolk constituency with their one daughter and three sons.
A Whitehall whistleblower told The Sun it was “shocking that Mr Hancock was having an affair in the middle of a pandemic with an adviser and friend he used public money to hire”.
Last night, a friend of the Health Secretary said: “He has no comment on personal matters. No rules have been broken.”
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MATT HANCOCK ADMITS ‘I’VE BREACHED SOCIAL DISTANCING’ BUT DOESN’T APOLOGISE TO WIFE AS HE BREAKS SILENCE OVER AFFAIR
MATT Hancock has today broken his silence to admit he “breached social distancing rules” – but failed to apologise to his wife of 15 years after his explosive affair was revealed by The Sun.
The Health Secretary, 42, refused to resign and instead said he “has let people down and is very sorry” as he faces calls to be sacked by Boris Johnson for his brazen steamy clinch in Whitehall.
CCTV images published this morning showed him passionately kissing his aide – with the dad-of-three shamelessly asking for “privacy on this personal matter” just hours later.
And he admitted he had “broken social distancing rules” after lecturing the country on coronavirus regulations throughout the pandemic.
In his very short statement, in which he failed to apologise to his wife or acknowledge his behaviour, he said: “I accept that I breached the social distancing guidance in these circumstances.
“I have let people down and am very sorry. I remain focused on working to get the country out of this pandemic, and would be grateful for privacy for my family on this personal matter.”
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SERIOUS QUESTIONS REMAIN OVER COLADANGELO APPOINTMENT
Serious questions also remain about whether married Mr Hancock should have hired his millionaire lobbyist Ms Coladangelo for the £15,000-a-year job.
But as of this morning Boris Johnson was sticking with his Health Secretary, with the Government line insisting it was a “private matter”.
Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said he “absolutely” had confidence in his Cabinet colleague.
He told Times Radio: “We don’t live in a world where the responsibilities of public work and what somebody has done in their private life are one and the same thing.
“We’re living in the 21st century and how people live their private lives is a private business.”
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PIERS BLASTS MATT HANCOCK
Piers tweeted The Sun’s front page, exposing the Health Secretary’s explosive affair, adding: “At the time he was ordering the British people not to hug anyone from other households…”
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GOVERNMENT ‘POSTER BOY’
Luther Pendragon, the lobbying firm in which she is a director, boasts clients who have secured lucrative contracts during the pandemic, including British Airways and Accenture, which received £2.5m to help build the NHS Covid-19 app.
Trade publications have described Oliver Bonas, for whom she works as communications and marketing director, as something of a “poster boy” for the government of late.
In June, for example, a blog was published on the government website entitled: “Oliver Bonas: Fashion and homeware store reopens safely.”
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SLAP IN THE FACE
Grieving families who have lost loved ones to coronavirus have written to the Prime Minister after he refused to sack Matt Hancock in the wake of his secret affair being exposed.
Bereaved Brits have slammed Boris Johnson's decision to keep the Health Secretary as a "slap in the face" to the thousands of families of Covid victims.
Despite preaching the importance of social distancing and lockdown rules during the pandemic, the father-of-three cheated on his wife with his closest aide Gina Coladangelo, 43, who he hired last year with taxpayers’ money.
But Hannah Brady, who lost her father Shaun, 55, to the virus, has hit out at Mr Hancock and said he "has treated bereaved families with contempt".
She believes the 42-year-old should have already been struck off for his failures and is infuriated that the PM "considers the matter closed".
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MARRIAGE WOE
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MATT HANCOCK’S WIFE MARTHA STILL WEARING WEDDING RING AS SHE’S SPOTTED FOR SECOND TIME
Martha Hancock, who has been married to the Health Secretary for 15 years, was seen walking with her dog this morning – hours after the bombshell news.
Now she has been seen leaving the family's London home once again and still sporting dark sunglasses and her wedding ring.
Mrs Hancock put on a brave face as she clutched her mobile phone and a set of car keys before driving off.
She gave a half-smile as she stepped out in dark sunglasses this morning after The Sun exposed her husband's affair last night.
Mr Hancock cheated on his wife with Gina Coladangelo, 43, who he hired last year with taxpayers’ money, as Covid gripped Britain.
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BORIS JOHNSON STANDS BY MATT HANCOCK DESPITE SOCIAL DISTANCING BREACH
BORIS JOHNSON is NOT firing Matt Hancock over his secret affair and “considers the matter closed”, Downing Street said this afternoon.
The PM has accepted the Health Secretary’s grovelling apology for snogging his top aide in breach of social distancing rules while the pandemic raged.
Read more here.
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‘YOU CAN TALK’
Matt Hancock skewered Professor Lockdown Neil Ferguson for his affair during Covid – just a year before his own.
The Health Secretary stressed the importance of social distancing and criticised the professor’s “extraordinary” behaviour during the first lockdown – but Hancock has now broken the rules himself.
In the clip from May 2020, the Health Secretary condemns the actions of Neil Ferguson – who broke Covid rules to meet his married mistress Antonia Staats.
Mr Hancock said he was left “speechless” by Prof Ferguson’s “extraordinary” behaviour, and said it had been right for him to resign as a government Sage adviser.
Matt Hancock said on Sky News at the time: “The social distancing rules are there for everyone, they’re incredibly important and they’re deadly serious.
“And the reason is they are the means by which we’ve managed to get control of this virus.”
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THE MOMENT MATT HANCOCK SHARED INTIMATE KISS IN WHITEHALL
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WIFE OF 15 YEARS
During the pandemic, the office has provided the backdrop to his Zoom appearances on TV — including the Andrew Marr Show.
Mr Hancock is seen checking the corridor is clear before closing the door and then leaning on it to ensure he cannot be disturbed.
Ms Coladangelo then walks towards him and the pair begin their passionate embrace.
According to a whistleblower, who used to work at the department, the pair have regularly been caught in clinches together.
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HANCOCK AFFAIR
Mr Hancock was seen kissing Ms Coladangelo at the Department of Health’s London HQ during office hours last month as the mutant strain began spreading.
A Whitehall whistleblower told The Sun it was “shocking that Mr Hancock was having an affair in the middle of a pandemic with an adviser and friend he used public money to hire”.
Last night, a friend of the Health Secretary said: “He has no comment on personal matters. No rules have been broken.”
Mr Hancock was pictured embracing his aide. The image was from just after 3pm on May 6 — as the rest of Westminster was engrossed by the local elections.
He is seen in his distinctive ninth-floor office inside the sprawling Department of Health building, which is a stone’s throw from the Houses of Parliament.
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THE MOMENT MATT HANCOCK SHARED INTIMATE KISS IN WHITEHALL
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