Matt Hancock has been accused of cheating on his wife with a close friend and lobbyist who is a taxpayer-funded adviser to his department.
He was allegedly caught on camera kissing Gina Coladangelo, according to The Sun, which published photographs of what it called a “steamy clinch”, at his Whitehall office.
Coladangelo, met Matt Hancock when both were attending Oxford University, was a director at lobbying firm Luther Pendragon.
The security camera pictures were taken on 6 May.
Mr Hancock, 42, has been married for 15 years to Martha, and the pair have three children.
The paper refers to a whistleblower who revealed the Health Secretary had been spotted cheating on his wife.
He was seen kissing her 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”.
Dominic Cummings has had the daggers out for Hancock, for a long time, but in public since his committee hearings, but Hancock seems to have a lot of enemies these days.
Looking back it is worth recalling when Matt Hancock suggested that Neil Ferguson should be prosecuted for breaking the rules when he meet his lover. “The social distancing rules are there for everyone & they’re deadly serious,” he said at the time.
Grant Shapps didn’t want to be drawn into the revelations on LBC today.
Cheating, or allegations of cheating, by MPs is nothing new. However, some might find it awful during the biggest crisis of a generation, the Health Secretary might have spent his time chasing another woman, when he should have been focused on his role.
However, many on social media were wondering how the newspaper managed to get hold of Government CCTV, who from, and why?
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Harry Cole, from the Sun, pushed back on accusations that this was a ‘private matter,’
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