The Hancock Affair
 

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/153880...air-with-aide/

The Sun has a story that Hancock is having an affair with his aide.

What might make this worse, and more in the public interest, is that there were already accusations that he gave her this job because she was a University friend of his and a lobbyist.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/m...-pal-tppg75t5c

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I’m more interested in who fed him to The Sun. Johnson or Dom?

Tory corruption has been normalised to the extent the fact he got her a job/contract just makes him one of many.

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If the pictures are anything to go by there's not much social distancing going on there. :erm:

But like Cummings, it's do as I say not as I do.

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Good to see him working tirelessley and ramping up his effort. I'm sure Mrs Hancock will be receiving an entirely plausible explanation.

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That might also be part of any excuse to can him. He did say it was right for Professor Ferguson to resign over his affair which broke the lockdown rules he helped advise. So why shouldn't Hancock resign over breaking the rules he, as a Minister, put into place?

Although personally, I don't actually care if he broke lockdown rules here. It's more the conflict of interest of using Government funds to hire her which already looked a bit dodgy before this.

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And who leaked the internal CCTV photos?

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The Sun article just says a whistleblower.

Coincedentally the Sun website has just gone down.

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He admits to breaking social distancing 'guidelines': https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-57612441

He is not admitting to breaking the law though.

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Stay at home. Protect the NHS. Shag wives. :rofl:

Sorry, couldn't resist. :D

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The one I saw was: Hands, Face, Come back to my Place.

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BREAKING: Downing Street said the Prime Minister has accepted Health Secretary Matt Hancock’s apology for breaching social distancing guidelines and “considers the matter closed.

Unprecedented to see a major cabinet minister stay on with such sleaze trailing in his path.

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I wonder what he's got on Boris? :scratch:

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Well Johnson can hardly fire him for having an affair or putting the women he is having an affair with on the public payroll can he? :shocked:

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I'm surprised he had the time.

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Is that a Moderator instruction ;)