https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-57619721
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Cabinet colleagues of Mr Hancock have defended the health secretary.
Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick told BBC Radio's 4 Any Questions programme: "There's a task to be done, Matt is on the job doing that, and I think we should allow him to get on with the job."
He added: "The rules have been hard. It is everybody's duty to follow the rules, but equally I've not been somebody who has criticised and condemned people when they've made mistakes."
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That would be the Robert Jenrick who, as the Housing, Communities and Local Government Secretary was forced to explain himself in April last year after travelling more than an hour to visit his parents despite warning people to remain at home, and was also criticised for travelling 150 miles from his London property to his Herefordshire home from where he travelled to his parents' home in Shropshire…
In other unrelated news, Fred West defended Harold Shipman, pointing out what he did out of work shouldn’t reflect on the good job he did as a Doctor…