Matt Hancock
Former Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
Matt Hancock
Former Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
Matt Hancock is a British Conservative politician who served as the UK’s Secretary of State for Health and Social Care from 2018 to 2021. He played a key role in the government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, overseeing the NHS, lockdown measures, and the vaccine rollout. However, he resigned in June 2021 after CCTV footage revealed he was having an affair with his aide, Gina Coladangelo, breaching the social distancing rules he had enforced. Despite the scandal, he remained an MP and later appeared on I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! in 2022, sparking controversy. He has since focused on media, writing, and advocacy, including publishing Pandemic Diaries, a book about his time in government.
Matt Hancock gives final speech as MP
- Friday, 24 May 2024
“I did my very best,” Matt Hancock told MPs during his final speech in the Commons, describing the vaccine rollout as “undoubtedly one of the country’s greatest peacetime achievements.” The former health secretary resigned from his cabinet role in 2021 after admitting to breaking social distancing rules by having an affair with a colleague.
Covid inquiry: Matt Hancock grilled over lockdown affair
- Friday, 01 December 2023
Matt Hancock has admitted that his rule-breaking affair damaged public confidence in coronavirus restrictions, as he finished his evidence at the Covid-19 inquiry by insisting his care homes policy saved lives. The former health secretary acknowledged the “failure” that forced his resignation in 2021 after The Sun published pictures of him in his Department of Health office kissing his adviser Gina Coladangelo. He later left his wife to be with the aide.
Matt Hancock: Opens Up About His Affair, Mistakes & The Pandemic
- Monday, 28 February 2022
Matt Hancock affair video kissing Gina Coladangelo in his office
- Saturday, 26 June 2021
MARRIED Matt Hancock was on Friday branded a hypocrite for canoodling with his mistress despite preaching to the nation to hug “carefully”.
