Boris Johnson faces calls to launch ‘cronyism’ probe into Matt Hancock’s hiring of Gina Coladangelo

Boris Johnson was under mounting pressure last night to launch a ‘cronyism’ investigation into Matt Hancock’s hiring of his close aide for taxpayer-funded roles. The Prime Minister yesterday accepted his Health Secretary’s apology for breaching social distancing rules after he was pictured kissing Gina Coladangelo in his office. But there are growing calls for Downing … Read more

Pfizer refutes Matt Hancock’s claim of Covid vaccine ‘supply issues

Britain’s lagging vaccine roll-out could derail plans to drastically ease lockdown over the next few months, a leading infectious disease expert warned today. Ministers are in a race against time to vaccinate as many people as possible over the next few weeks before millions of second doses have to be dished out. But Professor Paul … Read more

Matt Hancock’s pub landlord neighbour faces probe by UK’s medical regulator

Matt Hancock’s former neighbour and pub landlord is under investigation by the UK’s medical regulator, it has been revealed. Alex Bourne, who crossed paths with the Health Secretary while running the Cock Inn in Thurlow, West Suffolk, began producing millions of NHS Covid test vials during the pandemic after exchanging a personal WhatsApp messages with Mr … Read more

Matt Hancock’s hammer blow is a new death knell for travel, writes MARK PALMER 

Never has the thought of an ‘all-inclusive’ stay in a hotel taken on such sinister undertones. For £1,750 per person, you get ten nights in an airport Holiday Inn, Travelodge, Premier Inn or such like, where meals will be left outside your room on decontaminated trays and where you can’t open any of the windows … Read more

Matt Hancock’s obsession with Contagion ‘helped him inspire civil servants to create jabs rollout’

How Matt Hancock’s obsession with the film Contagion – which sees disease-gripped nations battling for limited vaccine supplies – helped inspire him to prioritise Britain’s jab rollout Former DHSC adviser said Matt Hancock would ‘keep referring to end of the film’ Movie depicted vaccines being handed out using a lottery based on birth dates  The … Read more

‘We live in a free country’: Stanley Johnson backs Hancock’s playing rugby with sons in London park

Stanley Johnson has backed Matt Hancock’s decision to play rugby with his two sons in busy parks twice over the weekend. The Health Secretary today announced that he is isolating until Sunday after being ‘pinged’ by the NHS coronavirus app. But, strolling in the same park Mr Hancock was pictured in, Boris Johnson’s father insisted … Read more

Matt Hancock’s tone conjured up images of a giant-fanged monster, writes HENRY DEEDES

Matt Hancock’s tone conjured up images of a giant-fanged monster: HENRY DEEDES watches the Health Secretary announcing a new variant of coronavirus Health Secretary Matt Hancock revealed on Monday that London would be moving into Tier 3 amid a rise in coronavirus infections The move comes less than a fortnight after the end of the … Read more

Emily Andre says she can understand Health Secretary Matt Hancock’s tears over COVID-19 vaccinations

Emily Andre has said she understands Health Secretary Matt Hancock’s tears over the COVID-19 vaccine, as the politician has had ‘the worst year of his working life.’ The NHS doctor wife of singer Peter Andre, 31, told OK! Magazine that she had felt emotional when she saw elderly people receive the first approved coronavirus vaccines, … Read more

Truth behind Matt Hancock’s ‘step-grandad’ who died from Covid

Derek Johnston (pictured) died from Covid in a care home in Liverpool last month  This is Derek Johnston, the ‘step-grandfather’ whose death brought Health Secretary Matt Hancock close to tears when he paid an emotional tribute to him in Parliament on Tuesday. Mr Hancock, 42, was wrapping up a highly-charged debate on the Covid lockdown … Read more

Matt Hancock’s neighbour with no experience making medical supplies won Covid testing kit contract

Matt Hancock’s neighbour won a contract to supply tens of millions of Covid tests to the NHS after sending him a personal WhatsApp message – despite his company having no previous experience of making medical supplies.  Alex Bourne got to know the Health Secretary while landlord of the Cock Inn in Thurlow, West Suffolk, a few … Read more