We shouldn’t really blame disgraced former Health Sec Matt Hancock for thinking he’d landed that big United Nations job, only to have the offer withdrawn just a few days later when someone suddenly found the paragraph in the rulebook that explicitly ruled him out of the post. Seems someone at …
Read More »‘Failed’ former Health Secretary Matt Hancock loses UN Africa job just hours after celebrating the appointment online
The job of UN envoy for financial innovation and climate change for the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) was seen as a chance for Hancock to revive his career after his scandalous resignation from the UK government this June. The 43-year-old was forced to quit his job as health secretary …
Read More »UK govt won’t search Hancock’s private emails despite admitting ex-health secretary used personal account for official work
Downing Street has decided that an inspection of Hancock’s private email account was “neither necessary nor proportionate.” However, the government has acknowledged that Hancock – who resigned last month after being caught on camera smooching with an aide, leading to allegations that he violated his marriage vows, as well as …
Read More »There IS a way for disgraced UK ex-minister Matt Hancock to redeem himself in the eyes of at least the woke public, but it’s grimy
In a week in which he found himself at the epicentre of an ever-worsening sex, security and social-distancing storm, some of the MP for Newmarket’s special abilities have been laid bare for all to see. The British public is now all too aware not just of Mr Hancock’s assignations with …
Read More »‘We need a new govt’: Brits jeer after Justice Sec says he’s ‘confident’ Hancock didn’t bend hiring rules with aide-turned-lover
Hancock resigned as health secretary earlier this week after a leaked photograph showed him snogging aide Gina Coladangelo, a married lobbyist who he had promoted to a paid position last year. The kiss was seen as a breach of his own social-distancing guidelines, not to mention his marital vows. But …
Read More »UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock resigns after Covid rule-breaking kiss caught on camera
Hancock announced his resignation on Saturday, apologizing again for breaking social distancing rules, and to his family for “putting them through this.” “We owe it to people who have sacrificed so much in this pandemic to be honest when we have let them down as I have done by breaching …
Read More »As a GP in the NHS I witnessed first-hand the catastrophic way Matt Hancock failed the old and vulnerable in care homes
As a GP working mainly with elderly patients in care homes and intermediate care I witnessed, at first hand, the absolute disaster that was the government policy at the start of the Covid-19 outbreak. Elderly patients who were Covid-19 positive, or not tested, or perhaps even negative, were simply shovelled …
Read More »Matt Hancock’s UK Health Security Agency would be the worst April Fool’s ever – except he isn’t joking
Back in 1957, the BBC’s flagship current affairs programme Panorama (well, it was then) showed a short three-minute film of a family in Switzerland harvesting spaghetti from a family ‘spaghetti tree.’ People rang up the BBC switchboard afterwards for advice on growing their own spaghetti. They should have paid closer …
Read More »Hancock ‘does not rule out’ THIRD national lockdown in UK amid calls from opposition to take immediate action on Covid-19
Speaking on Monday morning, British health secretary Matt Hancock told Sky News that the government is not “ruling anything out” amid calls from the opposition leader, Keir Starmer, to introduce a national lockdown within 24 hours. “This new variant is much easier to catch, it is much more transmissible, and …
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