The High Court found that policies in March and early April 2020 were unlawful because they failed to take into account the risk to elderly and vulnerable residents from non-symptomatic transmission of the virus.
More than 20,000 elderly or disabled care home residents died from Covid-19 in England and Wales during the first wave of the pandemic.
The former health secretary's timing, as ever, wasn't great.
"He just got lower. Plugging it on GB News and Wootton. Babestation probably rejected his approach", one person said.
Hancock was keen to stress that he and Ms Coladangelo had not been having “casual sex”, despite the CCTV images.
"Look who has crawled out of his kissing corner," tweeted one person after reading Hancock's gloating message.
'It was so public' says Hancock, about his affair 'and so painful'. Yeah, Matt. Sure your wife really appreciates you being so private and sensitive about it now."
The former health secretary claimed he broke social distancing guidelines "because I fell in love with somebody".
Hancock did not comply with a public sector equality duty when appointing Harding to a top job in 2020.