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Gareth Gates reveals he suffered an awful encounter with Matt Hancock after the former MP tried to spark a chat while he was sat on the loo Speaking exclusively to MailOnline, Gareth, who won the show, said the experience of having to go to the toilet next to a politician in the jungle was 'really humbling'. Matt Hancock libelled parliamentary candidate Andrew Bridgen 'to devastating extent' by accusing him of anti-Semitism, High Court hears Andrew Brigden, the former North West Leicestershire MP, is bringing a libel case against Mr Hancock over a post on X, formerly Twitter. Gordon Ramsay and wife Tana finally move back into their £7.5M London mansion after two years of renovations and multiple planning rows The celebrity chef, 57, and his wife Tana, 49, were spotted returning to the south London mansion on Wednesday which they bought for in 2002 for £2.8million. Smiling Rishi jokes with veterans in Spoons about 'the amount of people who have given me an umbrella' after getting soaked in the pouring rain while announcing snap July 4 election Going back to his Northallerton, in his Richmond constituancy, the Prime Minister joked that he avoided catching pneumonia after getting wet while speaking outside 10 Downing Street. Rishi Sunak WILL campaign today in Yorkshire - after reports claimed he would 'spend the day at home after shaky start to election' The Prime Minister has endured a torrid few days since announcing the date of the election earlier this week. Andrea Leadsom is latest to join Tory exodus: Former leadership contender to stand down at the general election as Michael Gove also announces he will quit amid growing pressure on Rishi Sunak In a letter to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak posted on X, Andrea Leadsom said she had come to the decision after 'careful reflection' but did not go into detail about her reasons for quitting. Michael Gove QUITS parliament: Cabinet minister heaps pressure on Rishi Sunak by becoming the most high-profile MP to join record-breaking Tory election exodus days after backing PM's decision to call vote on July 4 The Communities Secretary, 56, who has served under four Conservative Prime Ministers since 2015, confirmed he will not contest his Surrey Heath seat on July 4. Tory election exodus breaks John Major's 1997 record as 76 Conservatives including 'Bionic MP' Craig Mackinlay say they will quit at the next election - overtaking 75 who stepped down ahead of Tony Blair's landslide 'Cool Britannia' victory Some 76 Conservatives have now said they will stand down rather than contest the July 4 vote, one more than stepped down ahead of Tony Blair's landslide win in 1997. 'Bionic MP' joins Tory exodus after Rishi Sunak calls an early election: Thanet South's Craig Mackinlay says campaigning for July 4 is 'impossible' after losing hands and feet to sepsis as number jumping ship equals 75 record as Greg Clark follows suit The South Thanet Tory was applauded in the Commons on Wednesday as he returned from a life-threatening battle with sepsis with four prosthetic limbs. Rail Minister reaches the end of the line as Tory election exodus grows: Huw Merriman becomes latest senior figure to step down on July 4 following departure of former PM Theresa May and three ex-chancellors amid fears for hundreds of seats Huw Merriman confirmed he would not contest Bexhill and Battle, the East Sussex seat he has held since 2015. He is one of four Tories to step down today, taking the total to 69. The election exodus of the Tory big hitters: Former PM Theresa May, ex-chancellors Nadhim Zahawi and Sajid Javid, and Boris's deputy Dominic Raab among more than 100 MPs standing down on July 4 amid fears hundreds of Conservatives will lose their seats More than 100 from across all parties already deciding to bow out. And MPs now having just days to decide whether they will stand or not. Former PM Theresa May and ex-chancellor Nadhim Zahawi lead exodus of more than 100 MPs standing down ahead of July 4 general election Former Prime Minister Theresa May and ex-Chancellor Nadhim Zahawi are part of a 65-strong Tory contingent that will leave Parliament after voters go to the polls on July 4. I'm A Celeb bosses 'have been warned watchdogs will come down on them like a ton of bricks' if they continue to sign up politicians for the show I'm A Celebrity bosses have been warned watchdogs will 'come down on them like a ton of bricks' if they continue to sign a specific type of celebrity. UK's little-known deal with AstraZeneca means YOU will pay compensation to anyone injured by pharma firm's lockdown-ending jab The jab, developed in the UK, was supposed to be a shining example of British ingenuity that would banish the devastating Covid pandemic, now it's being hauled through the courts. How safe is AstraZeneca's Covid jab? What are the side effects? And why do victims only have a 3-year cut-off for compensation? All your questions answered… The jab, developed with Oxford University, can no longer be used in the European Union after the company voluntarily withdrew its 'marketing authorisation'. Kathy Burke sparks feud with TV duo Ant McPartlin and Dec Donnelly as she brands them 'f***g a****s' in shocking outburst The comedian has sparked a feud with duo Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly as she shared what she really thinks of the Geordie presenters. Moment BBC's Chris Packham holds his head in his hands before mocking Matt Hancock's London Marathon video as ex-minister reveals he's running for dyslexia charity The clip earned a less than welcome response from Chris Packham, who held his head in his hands when he was shown the video on the BBC 's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg. EPISODE 7: Straight to the Comments! - James Argent: Matt Hancock's WhatsApp Buddy James 'Arg' Argent, joins Josh and Archie. He talks his weight-loss, we get the exclusive story of how he became a missing person and discover what Matt Hancock's last WhatsApp message to him was! Lockdown trysts, parliament liaisons and romps amid the red boxes: Harold Wilson's affair puts him on the list of politicians including Hancock, Major, Prescott, Ashdown and Lloyd George who have proved that power is the greatest aphrodisiac of all Edwina Currie revealed her four-year affair with Sir John in her diaries in 2002. The sexual liaison began in the 1980s, when Sir John was a government whip. Above: The pair in 1994. James Argent reveals he and Matt Hancock are still good friends after the former health secretary 'supported' him through Channel 4's Celebrity SAS The TOWIE star, 36, admitted that the former MP 'supported' him while they appeared together on Channel 4's fifth series of Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins. James Argent reveals he's now trying to GAIN weight after gastric sleeve surgery saw him lose 14 stone He reached a staggering 27 stone during lockdown as his eating spiralled out of control. But now, TOWIE star James had told how he's keen to put weight on again. Anti-vaxxer MP Andrew Bridgen is told to pay Matt Hancock £40,000 for legal fee costs in libel war over a 'malicious' post made by disgraced former Health Secretary on social media, judge rules Mr Bridgen wants to 'clear his name' after allegedly being accused of antisemitism in a 'malicious' social media post by Mr Hancock, the High Court in London previously heard. Now it's REALLY the end of the Covid era! Routine lateral flows for patients being discharged from hospitals into care homes will be axed next week It means the new system in England, enforced from April 1, will only see free tests provided to at-risk staff and residents with symptoms. NADINE DORRIES: The moment I saw an aborted foetus gasping for breath scarred me for life. Extending 'pills by post' abortion right up to birth would be a terrible mistake My months on the gynaecological ward had been the happiest and most rewarding of my short career - until I was asked to help during the termination of a pregnancy at 27 weeks. NHS patients died after eating chicken mayo sandwiches contaminated with listeria: Deaths of retired nurse, 57, and 84-year-old in hospital were linked to pre-packed sandwiches, inquest rules Retired nurse Beverley Sowah, 57, and mother-of-five Enid Heap, 84, were given the sandwiches on successive days while patients at Manchester Royal Infirmary.. The Covid Inquiry 'is biased for failing to look at the impact of lockdown', public health experts claim Public health experts have accused the Covid Inquiry of 'bias', saying the failure to investigate the impact of lockdown makes it unfit for purpose. Matt Hancock is humiliated by Sir Jacob Rees Mogg's son, 16, over his lockdown affair after ex Health Secretary made joke about his father being 'not a good politician' during speech to Eton schoolboys Peter Rees-Mogg, one of the Conservative backbencher's six children, was among those present at a talk at the public school in Berkshire. I'm A Celeb bosses 'ban politicians from appearing on the ITV show' following controversial signings including Matt Hancock and Nigel Farage After a number of controversial signings including former Health Minister Matt Hancock and ex-UKIP leader Nigel Farage, show bosses are said to be keen to avoid including any more. What happened to Ukrainians who moved in with celebrities and politicians? From Chris Tarrant buying refugees their very own flat, to the Tory MP who put up three generations of the same family, the famous faces who offered help Broadcasters Chris Tarrant and Rachel Riley and Tory MPs Matt Hancock , Grant Shapps , David Cameron and Robert Jenrick are among high-profile Brits to welcome refugees. They're a politician... get them out of there! I'm A Celeb bookers told to 'avoid political figures' after Nigel Farage ratings slump The order to ditch the politicians has come from ITV bosses after a lot of viewers chose to skip last year's edition of I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! The real doctor behind ITV's latest Covid drama: How Oxford-educated journalist-turned-medic behind Breathtaking led criticism of the Government's handling of the pandemic with scathing tweets while on the NHS frontline Events in the script are heavily based around the pandemic memoirs of Dr Rachel Clarke, a palliative care doctor in Oxford who was seconded onto virus-riddled wards. Chilling Breathtaking scene shows sobbing NHS doctors turning off the life support of a young nurse who died from the virus in new three-part ITV drama that has divided the nation ITV 's three-part drama illustrating the horrors NHS workers endured in the pandemic, features a scene which TV critics described as 'so realistic it will break your heart'. Harrowing scenes in ITV show Breathtaking are hailed by viewers including health workers and MPs as drama lays bare the huge impact of the Covid pandemic on the NHS Traumatised doctors, nurses and patients shared how last night's programme - based on a book by Dr Rachel Oxford - brought back memories of the first coronavirus wave in March 2020. ITV's Breathtaking is the best pandemic drama yet - even if it might make you dizzy, writes CHRISTOPHER STEVENS CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: Lurching between close-ups and chasing through wards, the handheld photography on Breathtaking was enough to bring on symptoms of dizziness. Tear-jerking scene in ITVs new three-part Covid drama Breathtaking shows patient being left to die in the back of an ambulance because pandemic-era rules stopped paramedics from doing CPR Pandemic-era rules - illustrated in tonight's 9pm episode of ITV's Breathtaking - stopped medics in some trusts from performing CPR without adequate PPE. Strict new prescription rules introduced as anti-epilepsy drug leads to birth defects Birth defects linked to potent anti-epilepsy pills have led to strict new prescription rules being introduced. Ex-boss of Covid vaccine taskforce Clive Dix fights back tears as he tells MPs that 'incompetent decisions' have left Britain ill-prepared for another inevitable pandemic Dr Clive Dix, who served as its chair from the end of 2020, said the Government 'destroyed almost everything that was going on' after trumpeting the success of the vaccines. Will tear-jerking new ITV Covid drama have the 'Mr Bates effect'? Three-part series by Line of Duty's Jed Mercurio lays bare horrors of NHS wards during pandemic's darkest days - with scenes so powerful actress Joanne Froggatt CRIED reading the scripts The minds behind a new drama set on an NHS Covid ward in the pandemic, the scripts of which reduced stars to tears, hope it could inspire real-world change like Mr Bates vs The Post Office. The Traitors creator Marc Pos reveals the hit show was turned down for FIVE years by Dutch broadcasters before it finally achieved worldwide success Dutch creator Mark Pos, the mastermind behind the show, has revealed that his hit psychological thriller was ignored about 40 or 50 times before it was gradually snapped up by broadcasters. BBC bosses 'planning celebrity version of The Traitors after show's huge success, with Wagatha Christie rivals Coleen Rooney and Rebekah Vardy being eyed-up for series' The Traitors is reportedly being lined-up for a celebrity spin-off version of the show following the success of the first two series. Ministers draw battle lines over prized Damien Hirst portrait of late Queen Elizabeth II which has bounced around five Whitehall offices in as many years Beautiful Portrait, The Queen, by Damien Hirst is one of the most highly prized pieces in the Government Art Collection and has been hung in five Whitehall offices in the space of five years. £145million: Staggering cost of Covid Inquiry so far - and it's still got another three years to run Taxpayer-funded packages have been dealt to legal firms and solicitors in England tasked with probing key witnesses, as well as data processing companies. CRAIG BROWN: What next for Nigel Farage... A turn on Strictly Come Dancing? CRAIG BROWN: So will Nigel Farage 's third place in I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! rocket him to the forefront of British politics? Nigel Farage claims he told ITV bosses to go to hell following FURIOUS row over his naked I'm A Celebrity scenes Nigel Farage has reportedly told ITV bosses to 'go to hell' following a furious clash over his naked body scenes which aired on I'm A Celebrity multiple times. I'm A Celebrity final viewing figures plummet by FOUR MILLION compared to last year as 7.6 million tune in to see Sam Thompson crowned King Of The Jungle An average of 6.6 million viewers tuned in to watch Sam Thompson be crowned King of The Jungle on Sunday night , peaking at 7.6 million. Nigel Farage defends his £1.5million I'm A Celeb fee and admits he couldn't wait for a pint after leaving camp - as he enjoys Guinness with Aussie locals Nigel Farage defended his £1.5million I'm A Celebrity fee as he appeared on Monday's Good Morning Britain after the show's final. King Of The Jungle Sam Thompson enjoys a surprise family reunion as he arrives back to luxury hotel after his I'm A Celeb win His second cousin Charlotte, 35, who lives in Australia and her mother Celia, 52, have not seen Sam in five years and found out he was participating in I'm A Celebrity on his Instagram. Around 100 girls and women have been investigated for 'illegal abortions' since Covid including GCSE student, 15, and mother whose house was searched as she gave mouth-to-mouth to her premature baby Healthcare providers claim they have seen a 'sharp increase' in requests by police to share medical records and other personal data of women who have sought help with abortions or stillbirths. King Of The Jungle Sam Thompson receives a hero's welcome after his I'm A Celeb win as he arrives at luxury hotel with runners-up Tony Bellew and Nigel Farage The former Made In Chelsea star, 31, has been the bookies favourite to win for the past couple of weeks and stormed to victory as he was crowned King Of The Jungle. I'm A Celeb fans BEG for Jungle King Sam Thompson and runner-up Tony Bellew to start their own show after their 'bromance carried the series' The Made In Chelsea star, 31, was crowned King Of The Jungle on Sunday night's episode, beating the professional boxer and Nigel Farage who placed third. I'm A Celebrity viewers hail Sam Thompson the 'most deserving winner ever' as they react after he was crowned King Of The Jungle The Made In Chelsea star, 31, has been hailed as the 'most deserving winner ever' by his fellow campmates and viewers at home. I'm A Celeb viewers are all saying the same thing as Nigel Farage claims third place in final - the same position as Matt Hancock last year The former UKIP leader, 59, made it to the final three campmates and narrowly missed out on the win - after Sam Thompson was declared King of the Jungle and Tony Bellew came second. I'm A Celebrity hosts Ant and Dec call for no more politicians on the show after ex UKIP boss Nigel Farage's £1.5m signing Allies of Farage, 59, have hit out at the broadcaster on various claims over the past two weeks including cutting his airtime, breaking an 'indecency' clause. Matt Hancock defends catastrophic decision to empty Covid-infected patients into care homes: Ex-Health Secretary says MORE patients could have died without 'difficult option' in grilling over testing failures Care homes in England were forced to accept hospital patients who hadn't been tested. They went on to log more than 43,000 Covid deaths during the first two years of the pandemic. Nicola Sturgeon's habit of 'gazumping' UK government announcements during Covid was 'unhelpful and confusing', says Matt Hancock Giving evidence to the official inquiry, former health secretary Matt Hancock gave a damning assessment of Nicola Sturgeon's behaviour. Matt Hancock is let off lightly over his Covid rule-breaking affair with Gina Coladangelo as he appears at official inquiry - but fails to apologise after he was caught on CCTV kissing her in his office Matt Hancock's flouting of Covid guidelines and resignation in June 2021 was brought up during the second day of his evidence to the official inquiry. Rishi Sunak 'wanted to close schools instead of shops in Autumn 2020': Extraordinary details of Cabinet wrangling emerge at Covid Inquiry as Matt Hancock claims tougher measures could have avoided pupils being forced to stay at home at start of 2021 The Covid Inquiry heard extraordinary details of Cabinet squabbling about how to handle a surge in cases as Matt Hancock gave a second day of evidence. QUENTIN LETTS: In six hours of Matt Hancock's evidence at the Covid Inquiry all we really found out was that he loathes the The Man He Would Not Name... Dominic Cummings During Mr Hancock's six hours at the Covid Inquiry witness table, not a single rude word was said, though a few were implied. SNP rocked by discovery of intimate texts revealing two politicians' torrid lockdown affair - at the same time the party insisted Scots stayed home The secret relationship is said to have carried on during the Covid pandemic in 2020, when the SNP forced the rest of the country to stay at home under tough lockdown restrictions. Matt Hancock tells Covid Inquiry his 'single greatest regret' was to not overrule scientists who said virus couldn't be spread by those without symptoms... and says he should have followed his 'hunch' The former health secretary claimed the UK's scientific advisers told him there was no 'concrete evidence' the virus could spread between people with no symptoms. Katherine Ryan reveals she turned down I'm A Celebrity because she is 'against glorifying dangerous people like Nigel Farage' for entertainment The Canadian comedian, 40, revealed she decided to turn down the opportunity to go in the jungle because she is 'against glorifying dangerous people'. Sadiq Khan handed an ultimatum to Boris Johnson at the start of the pandemic Covid demanding the PM lock down London or he would do it himself, capital's mayor tells Covid Inquiry as he claims 'lives could have been saved if he was involved sooner' In evidence handed to the Covid Inquiry, Mr Khan told the then prime minister he would 'speak directly to Londoners with a tougher message' if Mr Johnson decided not to tell people to stay at home. I'm A Celebrity viewing figures continue to plunge as another 1.3M viewers switch off after the show's launch was down 2.2million on 2022 I'm A Celebrity viewing figures continued to drop over the weekend as another 1.3million people switched off compared to Monday's episode. Michael Gove and Matt Hancock quizzed as part of fraud probe into a PPE firm linked to Baroness Mone The move was part of the NCA's investigation into PPE Medpro, which was awarded £200 million of contracts during the pandemic. Omid Scobie's scathing book expected to blame embattled civil servant Simon Case for deepening the rift between William and Harry Omid Scobie's new book, Endgame, is thought to include accusations against Cabinet Secretary Simon Case that he planted negative stories about Harry while working as William's secretary, Mother-of-five Danielle Lloyd, 39, shows off her surgically-enhanced figure in a skimpy brown cut out bikini during a Dubai holiday Danielle Lloyd showcased her sensational figure in a brown bikini as she soaked up the sun on Thursday during a lavish Dubai holiday. I'm A Celebrity suffers ANOTHER ratings blow as new series continues to draw less viewers despite heated Dadgate row Tuesday night's instalment saw a blazing row between contestants Nella Rose and Fred Sirieix but it wasn't enough to boost viewership. I'm A Celeb's Nigel Farage admits he wants to take part in trials to get 25% of the airtime as show loses 2.2million viewers over his £1.5m signing During Tuesday's episode, the former politician, 59, told food critic Grace Dent , 50, about his plan to reach a 'new audience'. I'm A Celebrity viewing figures plunge AGAIN as 1million viewers switch off after series debut was down 2.2million on its 2022 launch Previously, the reality TV series launched with a peak audience of 7.8 million (average 7 million), down 2.2million from the show's launch the year before. UK lockdown needed to be 'earlier, harder and broader', Sir Patrick Vallance says but admits there was no scientific basis behind 'rule of six' Asked about the phrase today at the Covid Inquiry, Sir Patrick Vallance, No10's ex-chief scientific adviser, repeated his view that the UK didn't act fast enough during the first wave in March 2020. What Sir Patrick Vallance REALLY thought during Covid: Explosive extracts of No10's ex-chief scientist, who kept diaries at 'the end of immensely stressful days to protect his mental health' The notes by the UK's former Chief Scientific Adviser have been described as 'a brain dump', written 'at the end of immensely stressful days to protect his mental health'. Matt Hancock had a 'habit of saying things' which weren't true, Sir Patrick Vallance tells Covid Inquiry as he calls shamed ex-Health Secretary 'over-enthusiastic' No10's ex-chief scientist, tasked with advising ministers throughout the pandemic, blamed the former Health Secretary's 'over-enthusiasm' for making bold claims he 'didn't have a basis for'.
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While Matt Hancock was swiftly replaced, the scandal was another blow to Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his Conservative government, which has repeatedly come under criticism for incompetence and hypocrisy in its handling of the pandemic over the past year. “People have made huge sacrifices to beat the pandemic and what riles them is the whiff of hypocrisy that people make the rules and don’t stick to them themselves,” Conservative lawmaker Andrew Bridgen told the BBC on Sunday. Hancock announced his resignation Saturday, a day after apologizing for breaching social distancing rules after the Sun tabloid published images showing him and senior aide Gina Coladangelo embracing and kissing in his office. The Sun said the images were taken on May 6, before lockdown rules were eased to allow hugs and physical contact with people not in one’s own household. Hancock, who is married, wasn’t the first senior British politician caught red-handed for breaking the government’s own COVID-19 rules. Johnson’s former top aide, Dominic Cummings, was accused of undermining the government’s “stay home” message during Britain’s first lockdown in 2020 when he broke a travel ban and drove across England to his parents’ home. The breach caused a furor and was widely seen to erode public trust in Johnson’s government. And Neil Ferguson, a leading government scientific adviser who advocated for strict lockdown rules, quit his position in May 2020 after it emerged he didn’t practice what he preached and allowed his girlfriend to visit him at home. At the time, Hancock remarked that the social distancing rules in place “are there for everyone” and are “deadly serious.” On Sunday, many questioned why Johnson publicly stood by Hancock after evidence of the latest rule breach emerged. Johnson had expressed confidence in the health minister, and his office said he had considered the matter closed after Hancock’s apology, despite widespread calls to fire him. “Boris Johnson should have had the guts, the spine, the awareness, the judgment, to sack him on Friday,” said Jonathan Ashworth, the opposition Labour Party’s health spokesman. Hancock had come under fire for his leadership in the government’s response to the pandemic long before the publishing of the intimate photos. He was accused of cronyism for hiring his friend, businesswoman Dido Harding, to run the much-criticized national test and trace system. Questions were also raised after the government awarded a lucrative coronavirus testing contract to a company run by a pub landlord near Hancock’s former constituency home. Hancock has denied involvement in the contract. Some are now also asking how Coladangelo, a close friend of Hancock’s from university, landed her job as a non-executive director at the Department of Health. The scandal came on the back of wider accusations from the opposition about “sleaze” in the Conservative party. Last month, former Prime Minister David Cameron was called before lawmakers to answer questions about lobbying work he did to win government funds for a now-bankrupt financial services company. Lucy Powell, a Labour lawmaker, said the fact that Hancock wasn’t fired reflected poorly on Johnson’s judgment. “I’m afraid it feels to me that the prime minister has a very dangerous blind spot when it comes to issues of integrity and conduct in public life,” she told Sky News. “That’s a really big problem and it’s an even bigger problem when you’re in the middle of a pandemic and you’re asking the public to also have integrity and conduct in the way that they go about with their own lives.” Newsletter
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He was Member of Parliament (MP) for West Suffolk from 2010 to 2024. He is a member of the Conservative Party. Hancock was born in Cheshire, with his family running a software business. He studied a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) at Exeter College, Oxford, and an MPhil in Economics at Christ's College, Cambridge. He was an economist at the Bank of England before serving as a senior economic adviser and later chief of staff to MP, George Osborne. Hancock was first elected as MP for West Suffolk at the 2010 general election. Once in Parliament, Hancock served as a junior minister at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills from 2012 to 2015, and was the United Kingdom Anti-Corruption Champion from 2014 to 2015. He attended David Cameron's cabinet as Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster General from 2015 to 2016. After Theresa May became prime minister following Cameron's resignation, Hancock was moved to the post of Minister of State for Digital and Culture. He was promoted to May's cabinet as Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. In July 2018, after the promotion of Jeremy Hunt to Foreign Secretary, Hancock replaced him as Secretary of State for Health and Social Care. After May's resignation, Hancock stood in the Conservative Party leadership election to replace her, but withdrew shortly after the first ballot and subsequently endorsed Boris Johnson. After Johnson became prime minister, Hancock retained his position as health secretary in his cabinet. Hancock's tenure as health secretary was marked by the COVID-19 pandemic, which he played a prominent role in the UK government's response to. Hancock oversaw efforts to procure PPE, but the absence of a competitive tendering process for the award of some contracts proved controversial. He expanded COVID-19 testing and tracing, and also oversaw the early stage of the UK's COVID-19 vaccination programme. In June 2021, it was shown that he had breached COVID-19 social distancing restrictions by kissing and embracing Gina Coladangelo in his office. Coladangelo was at that time a director at the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), and Hancock was having an extramarital affair with her. Following this controversy, Hancock resigned as health secretary and returned to the backbenches. He was succeeded by Sajid Javid. In November 2022, Hancock had the whip suspended after announcing he would be appearing as a contestant in the twenty-second series of the survival reality television show I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!, in which he finished in third place. He stood down as an MP at the 2024 general election. Early life and education[] Matthew Hancock was born on 2 October 1978 in Chester, Cheshire, to Michael Hancock and Shirley Hills. Hancock has an older sister and a brother. Hancock attended Farndon County Primary School, in Farndon, Cheshire, and the fee-paying King's School, Chester. He took A-levels in Maths, Physics, Computing, and Economics. He later studied computing at the further education college, West Cheshire College. Hancock then studied at Exeter College, Oxford, and graduated with a first in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, and later earned a MPhil degree in Economics at Christ's College, Cambridge. He was diagnosed with dyslexia at university. Hancock became a member of the Conservative Party in 1999. Early career[] After university, Hancock briefly worked for his family's computer software company, Border Business Systems, and for a backbench Conservative MP, before moving to London to work as an economist at the Bank of England, specialising in the housing market. In 2005, he was an economic adviser to the Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, later becoming Osborne's chief of staff. Parliamentary career[] Hancock was selected as the Conservative candidate for West Suffolk in January 2010. He narrowly won the contest, defeating Natalie Elphicke (a solicitor who later became MP for Dover), by 88 votes to 81 in the final ballot. At the 2010 general election, Hancock was elected as MP for West Suffolk with 50.6% of the vote and a majority of 13,050. In June 2010, Hancock was elected to the Public Accounts Committee. He served on this committee until November 2012. Hancock also served on the Standards and Privileges Committee from October 2010 to December 2012. In 2011, Hancock became a member of the Free Enterprise Group, a group of Thatcherite Conservatives co-founded by Liz Truss. In January 2013, he was accused of dishonesty by Daybreak presenter, Matt Barbet, after claiming he had been excluded from a discussion about apprentices after turning up "just 30 seconds late". Hancock acknowledged on social media that he was running late, but said he turned up ahead of time for the interview and was unfairly blocked from going on set by producers. Barbet said Hancock knew he was "much more than a minute late" and he should have arrived half an hour beforehand to prepare for the interview. In October 2013, Hancock joined the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills as the Minister of State for Skills and Enterprise. In June 2014, Hancock, in his role as a minister, encouraged employers to become involved in offering more apprenticeships, allowing young people to learn and earn simultaneously. On 15 July 2014, Hancock was appointed to the position of Minister of State for Business and Enterprise. On 27 July, he announced protection from fracking for National Parks, seen as a method of reducing anger in Conservative constituencies ahead of the election. Interviewed on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme, he rejected the suggestion that fracking was highly unpopular but he was unable to name any village that backed it. Hancock served as Minister of State for Energy from 2014 to 2015. In this role he was criticised for hiring a private jet with senior diplomatic officials to fly back from a climate conference in Aberdeen, where he signed a deal with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto to use British expertise in Mexico. A Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) spokesman said the chartered flight was organised to fit around diary commitments, and the conference was not about climate change, but it was a visit to a university and discussion about investment. Hancock was later criticised for accepting money from a key backer of climate change denial organisation, Global Warming Policy Foundation. In October 2014, he apologised after retweeting a poem suggesting that the Labour Party was "full of queers", describing his actions as a "total accident". At the 2015 general election, Hancock was re-elected as MP for West Suffolk with an increased vote share of 52.2% and an increased majority of 14,984. Hancock became Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster General on 11 May 2015. Hancock launched a new social mobility drive to promote diversity within the civil service, outlining his vision in a speech in February 2016. He led David Cameron's "earn or learn" taskforce which aimed to have every young person working or studying from April 2017. He announced that jobless 18 to 21-year-olds would be required to do work experience as well as looking for jobs, or face losing their benefits. In the 2016 UK referendum on EU membership, Hancock supported the UK remaining within the EU. Hancock was again re-elected at the snap 2017 general election with an increased vote share of 61.2% and an increased majority of 17,063. He was again re-elected at the 2019 general election with an increased vote share of 65.8% and an increased majority of 23,194. Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport[] Hancock moved to the Department for Culture, Media and Sport as the Minister of State for Digital and Culture on 15 July 2016 after Theresa May became Prime Minister. As minister for digital policy, Hancock in June 2017 recommitted to a "full fibre" digital policy. This promised that 97% of the UK would enjoy "superfast broadband" at speeds of at least 24 megabits per second by 2020. In August 2017, Hancock oversaw the strengthening of UK data protection law. As Digital Minister he announced people would have more control over their personal data and be better protected in the digital age. On 8 January 2018, Hancock was appointed Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport in Theresa May's 2018 cabinet reshuffle, succeeding Karen Bradley. On his first day in the role he criticised the BBC for the amounts of pay its foreign journalists received, and said that some men at the corporation were paid "far more than equivalent public servants". In early 2018, Hancock was the first MP to launch his own mobile app, eponymously named the "Matt Hancock MP App", which functioned as a social network for him to communicate with his constituents and give people updates in relation to his cabinet role. The head of privacy rights group Big Brother Watch called the app a "fascinating comedy of errors", after the app was found to collect its users' photographs, friend details, check-ins, and contact information. Hancock said his app collected data once consent was granted by the user. The app was eventually shut down at the beginning of 2023. In May 2018, as Media Secretary, Hancock confirmed the highest stake on fixed odds betting terminals would be cut to £2, after Prime Minister May sided with him over the issue. Secretary of State for Health and Social Care[] May Ministry[] Following Jeremy Hunt's appointment as Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Hancock was appointed Secretary of State for Health and Social Care for England on 9 July 2018. In November 2018, Hancock was criticised after appearing to endorse a mobile phone health app marketed by the subscription health service company Babylon in the Evening Standard. Babylon allegedly sponsored the newspaper article. The Labour MP Justin Madders wrote to Theresa May accusing Hancock of repeatedly endorsing the products of a company that receives NHS funds for patients it treats, which contravenes ministerial guidelines. The ministerial code includes that ministers should not "normally accept invitations to act as patrons of, or otherwise offer support to, pressure groups or organisations dependent in whole or in part on Government funding". In April 2019, Hancock, who had previously said the NHS would face "no privatisation on my watch", was criticised by Labour for allowing 21 NHS contracts worth £127 million to be tendered. 2019 Conservative Party leadership candidacy[] After Theresa May announced her intention to resign as Prime Minister on 24 May 2019, Hancock announced his intention to stand for the Conservative Party leadership. During this campaign, Hancock opposed the prorogation of Parliament to deliver Brexit and called on his fellow leadership candidates to join him on 6 June 2019. He proposed a televised debate with other candidates. He withdrew from the race on 14 June shortly after winning only twenty votes on the first ballot. Following his withdrawal, he endorsed Boris Johnson for the role. Early Johnson premiership[] Hancock continued in his role as Health Secretary in Prime Minister Boris Johnson's cabinet. He supported the prorogation of parliament in 2019 by Johnson which he had previously opposed while running for the Conservative leadership. On 24 September the Supreme Court ruled that the prorogation was unlawful. In a September 2019 Channel 4 News interview, Hancock was asked to respond to allegations that at a private lunch in 1999, Johnson had groped the leg of journalist Charlotte Edwardes under a table. Edwardes also claimed that Johnson did the same to another woman at the same private lunch. In his reply to the Channel 4 News question, Hancock said of Charlotte Edwardes, "I know Charlotte well and I entirely trust what she has to say. I know her and I know her to be trustworthy", a view shared by fellow Conservative MP Amber Rudd. Both Johnson and anonymous Downing Street officials denied the allegation. In October 2019, Hancock was lobbied by former Prime Minister David Cameron and financier Lex Greensill to introduce a payment scheme. Hancock was implicated in the Greensill scandal as the payment scheme was later rolled out within the NHS. In November 2019, Hancock publicly apologised to Bethany, a teenager diagnosed with autism, for being kept in solitary confinement in various psychiatric facilities. Hancock apologised "for the things that have gone wrong in her care" and said her case in particular was "incredibly difficult and complex", calling Bethany's case "heart-rending" and saying that he had insisted on "a case review of every single person in those conditions." COVID-19 pandemic[] On 31 January 2020, COVID-19 was confirmed to have spread to the UK. Hancock said the Government was considering "some quite significant actions that would have social and economic disruption". After the government gave strict social distancing advice which was defied by large numbers of people, Hancock took a stronger line than the prime minister on condemning those still socialising in groups and derided them as being "very selfish". The Government later implemented legislation banning such groups from forming. On 27 March 2020, along with Boris Johnson, Hancock himself tested positive for COVID-19. He stayed in self-isolation with mild symptoms for seven days, before delivering an update on COVID-19 testing targets and on Government plans to write off £13.4 billion of NHS debt. In April 2020, Hancock was criticised when it emerged that the target he had set for 100,000 daily COVID-19 tests had been met only by changing the method of counting, to include up to 40,000 home test kits which had been sent, but not yet completed. This change was challenged by the UK Statistics Authority and labelled a "Potemkin testing regime". Doctors' groups maintained that they helped deliver 45,000 masks to hospitals that did not have a sufficient supply at the beginning of the pandemic and that families of healthcare workers who died from COVID-19 had expressed concerns about the protection they got. Early in the pandemic NHS staff were photographed with poorly fitting personal protective equipment (PPE) and some made improvised gowns for themselves from bin bags. Doctors and MPs criticised Hancock for denying there was a problem. On 5 April 2020, Hancock warned that all outdoor exercise in England could be banned in response to COVID-19 if people did not follow social distancing rules. He said: "So my message is really clear. If you don't want us to have to take the step to ban exercise of all forms outside of your own home then you've got to follow the rules and the vast majority of people are following the rules." Hancock received criticism from journalists for perceived sexism after suggesting on 5 May 2020 that Labour MP and shadow health minister Rosena Allin-Khan change the "tone" of her comments. Allin-Khan, a doctor, had stated in Parliament that a lack of testing was costing lives and Hancock suggested she should "take a leaf out of the Shadow Secretary of State's [Jonathan Ashworth's] book in terms of tone". On 15 August 2020, The Daily Telegraph reported that Hancock was to merge Public Health England and NHS Test and Trace into a new body called the National Institute for Health Protection, modelled on the Robert Koch Institute. The new body, renamed as the UK Health Security Agency, was set up before autumn amid "a feared surge in coronavirus cases". On 11 October 2020, Hancock denied breaching a 10 pm drinking curfew in the Smoking Room bar in the House of Commons, put in place because of the pandemic. Eight days later, the Daily Mirror published a photograph of him riding in his chauffeur-driven car without wearing a mask. On 2 December 2020, Hancock incorrectly claimed that the MHRA's fast approval of the first COVID-19 vaccine was possible because of Brexit. The MHRA stated that it had followed an expeditious procedure allowed under EU legislation which was still in force in the UK during the transition period. In January 2021, shopping vouchers for families in need were reintroduced. On Good Morning Britain, Hancock praised the Government for reintroducing the scheme, despite being repeatedly reminded by Piers Morgan that he had opposed it in Parliament. On 19 February 2021, after a legal challenge by the Good Law Project, a High Court judge ruled that Hancock had acted unlawfully by handing out PPE contracts without publishing details in a timely manner. A ruling released by the High Court stated: "There is now no dispute that, in a substantial number of cases, the secretary of state breached his legal obligation to publish Contract Award Notices (CANs) within 30 days of the award of contracts." The details were published within 47 days. In April 2021, it was reported that Hancock had been given 20% of shares in Topwood Limited, a firm based in Wrexham which is owned by his sister and other close family members. The company specialises in secure storage, scanning and shredding of documents. It won a place on a "procurement framework" listing to provide services to NHS England in 2019, as well as contracts with NHS Wales. There has been no suggestion that Hancock intervened in the normal processes, and in April 2021, the company had not earned anything through the framework. Lord Geidt later produced a report on ministerial interests saying that the awarding of the contract to Topwood could be seen to "represent a conflict of interest" that should have been declared. Hancock responded by saying: "I did not know about the framework decision, and so I do not think I could reasonably have been expected to declare it." In May 2021, the former Downing Street chief adviser Dominic Cummings claimed, "tens of thousands of people died who didn't need to die" during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic due to what he claimed to be "criminal, disgraceful behaviour" within Downing Street under the supervision of Hancock. Cummings also said that Hancock should have been fired as Health Secretary for "15 to 20" different things. Following his testimony, YouGov noted that more people in the general public thought Hancock should resign than stay in his post, despite questions over the accuracy of Cummings's statements. Prime Minister Johnson defended Hancock and his decision-making. Over 20,000 care home residents who were elderly or disabled had died from COVID-19 in England and Wales. The High Court of Justice ruled in a case against Boris Johnson's government on 27 April 2022 that discharging people into care homes without testing them was unlawful. Lord Justice Bean and Neil Garnham ruled that the policies were not lawful since they disregarded the risk from non-symptomatic transmission of COVID-19 to elderly and vulnerable residents. The judges stated that in spite of "growing awareness" about the risk of asymptomatic transmission during March 2020, there was no evidence Hancock had taken the risk to care home residents into account. The judges stated: "The document could, for example, have said that where an asymptomatic patient (...) is admitted to a care home, he or she should, so far as practicable, be kept apart from other residents for up to 14 days. (...) there is no evidence that this question was considered by the Secretary of State." Resignation[] On 25 June 2021, it was revealed that Hancock had breached COVID-19 social distancing restrictions with Gina Coladangelo, an adviser in the DHSC with whom he was having an extramarital affair, after CCTV images of him kissing and embracing her in his Whitehall office on 6 May were published in The Sun newspaper. The Government's guidelines allowed intimate contact with people from a different household only from 17 May. The previous year, Hancock had failed to declare he had appointed Coladangelo as an unpaid adviser at the department and later to a paid non-executive director role on its board, for which Coladangelo would earn between £15,000 and £20,000 annually from public funds. Coladangelo became a close friend of Hancock after meeting him while they were both undergraduates at Oxford University. Later that day on 25 June, Hancock said that he had "breached the social distancing guidelines in these circumstances" and apologised for "letting people down". Boris Johnson later said that he accepted the apology and considered the matter "closed". However, Hancock resigned on the evening of 26 June, stating "those of us who make these rules have got to stick by them", and he had not because of his "breaking the guidance". He was replaced as Health Secretary the same day by Sajid Javid. Former Cabinet ministers Alan Johnson and Rory Stewart both said there had never been cameras in their offices during their time in Government, with Johnson saying: "I could never understand why there was a camera in the Secretary of State's office. There was never a camera in my office when I was Health Secretary or in any of the other five Cabinet positions." It was reported that the CCTV footage was leaked by a DHSC employee who opposed the Government's lockdown restrictions, and on 27 June it was confirmed that an internal investigation was undertaken by the department to find the culprit, for fear of future CCTV footage being leaked to states hostile to the UK, for the purposes of blackmail. News of the scandal was met with a mixture of public anger and ridicule. The Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice group warned that Hancock's actions could undermine adherence to COVID-19 restrictions, similar to the Dominic Cummings scandal. Amanda Milling, Co-chairman of the Conservative Party, suggested that Hancock's affair was a factor in the Conservative Party's failure to win the Batley and Spen by-election on 1 July 2021. In July 2021, the Information Commissioner's Office established an inquiry into the leak in the CCTV images. On 29 July, the council of the second largest town in his constituency, Newmarket, passed a no-confidence vote against Hancock as its MP. Mayor Michael Jefferys cast the necessary vote to pass the motion. According to the Independent, Hancock faced severe criticism due to a shortage of PPE in the NHS early in the pandemic, the award of contracts for supplying masks and the decision to transfer elderly patients to care homes without COVID-19 testing. Hancock defended his handling of the pandemic and stated: "We suddenly needed masses more PPE and so did everybody else in the world." Return to the backbenches[] On 12 October 2021, Hancock announced his appointment as the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa special representative for financial innovation and climate change, an unpaid position advising the Commission on the African economy's recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. Four days later, the United Nations announced on 16 October that the offer had been rescinded. During the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Hancock welcomed seven Ukrainian refugees into his family home in Suffolk in May 2022 through the "Homes for Ukraine" scheme. In December 2022, he announced his intention to stand down at the 2024 general election. In June 2023, Hancock was told to apologise to Parliament after being found to have breached the MPs Code of Conduct, by committing a “minor breach” of Commons rules by sending an unsolicited letter to the parliamentary standards commissioner in an attempt to influence the commissioner's investigation into fellow Conservative MP Steve Brine. Pandemic Diaries[] In April 2022, it was announced that Hancock would publish his diaries during the COVID-19 pandemic called Pandemic Diaries with Biteback Publishing, cowritten by Isabel Oakeshott. The royalties were planned to be donated to NHS charities. The book was to be released in December 2022. The book was not based on a diary, but was written after the fact. It was based on Hancock's recollections, as well his records of communications. It dismissed allegations that moving patients into care homes caused deaths, arguing that the staff in care homes were the vector of disease. The book was also critical of Dominic Cummings. Reviews commented that the book presented too positive an image, making Hancock seem unduly prescient with the benefit of hindsight, arguing there may be elements of revisionism. Gaby Hinsliff reviewing in The Guardian said that there were kernels of truth about how politicians make decisions in the account but comments on how the book was written with the benefit of hindsight, allowing Hancock to make himself seem prescient. Rod Dacombe writing in the i, said that the diary was absurd and devoid of literary flair. Adam Wagner, writing in Prospect magazine, said that the book had a focus on score settling and self-aggrandisation but that there were some genuine revelations. He noted that more will be known when the UK Covid-19 Inquiry reports. Wagner argues Hancock's removal of exceptions for protest from proposed lockdown regulations on the grounds that protests could undermine public trust in measures and his criticism of protestors in the book are suggestive that protests were banned based on the political views of protestors, which Wagner thinks would likely constitute government overreach. Oakeshott leaked some of the private WhatsApp messages she had access to in a Daily Telegraph article published in February 2023. The Telegraph published a series of articles about these leaks in a series called The Lockdown Files. One message from April 2020 suggests Hancock told aides that professor Chris Whitty had done "an "evidence review" and recommended "testing of all going into care homes, and segregation whilst awaiting result". Hancock allegedly stated this was a "good positive step". Later, Hancock allegedly stated he would rather avoid a commitment to test all people going into care homes from the community and "just commit to test & isolate ALL going into care from hospital". A spokesman for Hancock said, "These stolen messages have been doctored to create a false story that Matt rejected clinical advice on care home testing". Appearance on I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here![] Hancock was a contestant on the 22nd series of the reality television series I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!, filmed while Parliament was in session. An agreement was reached with the show's producers that Hancock could communicate with his constituency team throughout his time in the jungle if necessary. Explaining his decision to participate in the show, Hancock said, "I want to raise the profile of my dyslexia campaign to help every dyslexic child unleash their potential — even if it means taking an unusual route to get there, via the Australian jungle"! Hancock also explained that he was driven by the intention to display his "human side" and to use reality TV as a means to convey "important messages to the masses". It was reported that Hancock would be paid £400,000, which was "one of the largest show fees" paid to a contestant. His spokesman said that a donation would be made to St Nicholas Hospice in Suffolk and causes supporting dyslexia. Hancock joined the show on 9 November 2022 with comedian Seann Walsh. After he entered the jungle camp, Hancock was questioned by his fellow contestants, including Charlene White, Scarlette Douglas and Babatunde Aléshé, about his time as Health Secretary. Although he expressed remorse about breaking social distancing guidelines, he pointed out that he had not broken any laws and said that he did not regret the political decisions he made during the pandemic. On the episode aired on 16 November 2022, Hancock said that he told Boris Johnson not to run for prime minister again during the October 2022 Conservative Party leadership election, and said that former prime minister Liz Truss's political career is "totally finished" with "no ambiguity at all." On 27 November 2022, Hancock finished in 3rd place. Reaction[] Within the show[] Hancock's participation in the show was met with a mixed reaction by some of the other contestants. In the episode aired on 18 November 2022, fellow contestant Boy George said in a conversation with Seann Walsh that he found Hancock "slimy and slippery", and later told Hancock that he found it difficult to "separate" the politician from the person. Another contestant, journalist Charlene White, said she feared she would lose her job if she was too sympathetic towards Hancock. By others[] In response to participating in the show, the Conservative Party suspended the whip for Hancock—in effect removing him from their parliamentary group but retaining him as a party member. On 5 November, it was reported that an online petition to stop Hancock from appearing on the show had attracted nearly 40,000 signatures. The Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice and 38 Degrees groups flew a banner over the camp which read: "Covid bereaved say get out of here!". Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, who had worked with Hancock during his tenure as chancellor, said he was "disappointed" at Hancock's decision to participate in a reality television show and expressed his discomfort at the level of degradation Hancock was subjecting himself to. Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards Kathryn Stone stated her office had received "dozens of complaints" about Hancock being on the television show. Stone said that Hancock's decision to join the show raised "important questions about members' proper activities while they're supposed to be fulfilling their parliamentary duties and representing their constituents". Ofcom received just under 2,000 complaints about the show in its first week, including complaints over his appearance on the show and complaints criticising how Hancock was treated by other contestants. Hancock broke government rules about post-ministerial jobs by not consulting the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments before he joined the show, according to Lord Pickles, the committee chair. However, Lord Pickles advised ministers that taking action against Hancock would be disproportionate. On 23 May 2024, Rishi Sunak restored the whip to Hancock. Personal life[] Hancock married Martha Hoyer Millar, an osteopath, in 2006. She is a granddaughter of the 1st Baron Inchyra. They have a daughter and two sons. Hancock forbids his children to use social media. The family lived in Little Thurlow in his West Suffolk parliamentary constituency. In June 2021, following an affair with his political aide Gina Coladangelo, sources reported that he had left his wife for Coladangelo. Hancock confirmed he was still with Coladangelo during a conversation with Babatunde Aléshé on I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!. Hancock lives in his constituency, and also has a flat in London. Hancock trained as a jockey in 2012 and won a horse race in his constituency town of Newmarket. Hancock supports Newcastle United, and auctioned his "pride and joy" signed team shirt to raise money for the NHS in May 2020. Hancock told The Guardian in 2018 that he has dyslexia, something that he said first became apparent two decades earlier while he was studying at Oxford. On 25 January 2023, police arrested a 61-year-old man for allegedly assaulting Hancock on the London Underground.
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He discussed Boris Johnson's future on Thursday. Mr Hancock told Susanna Reid : "Yes, I assumed he was going to resign yesterday at lunchtime." He added: "So many people in his own cabinet were telling him to go and there are conventions in place and one of them is if you lose half of your cabinet then you stand down and there's a reason for that because it's clearly going to happen because the mechanics are more important than the fact Boris has lost the confidence of the majority in parliament. "It'll be better if he does resign today rather than later." He added: "I have no idea and I've supported him through thick and thin because I believe he got the big calls right during the pandemic and Ukraine but it gets to a point where unfortunately he has to go." READ MOREKate Middleton and Prince William used three subtle signs to communicate in Wimbledon royal box He said: "It's in the national interest the Prime Minister stands down. He could continue as a caretaker Prime Minister in the way Theresa May and David Cameron have before him and on those international affairs he's been very strong, he has the strong support of the whole of Parliament so he could continue to deliver what is needed to stand up to Putin as a caretaker Prime Minister while there is a leadership election." When asked if he would put his name forward for the position of Prime Minister, Mr Hancock said: "I am not going to be standing but I do care very much about what the next Prime Minister stands for and it's really important it's about uniting the country and somebody that can appeal to the north and south of the broad church of the Conservative movement." 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[Interruption.] I had to get that gag in. This is a saga which we have been living through for 18 months. In December 2016, when 21st Century Fox announced its bid for Sky, the world looked very different: the Tories were riding high in the polls; the Prime Minister was popular, even among her own Back Benchers; we had a different Culture Secretary; and I was six stone heavier. I do not think that even the Murdochs would have anticipated the changes that have happened since then. To her credit, the previous Secretary of State, the right hon. Member for Staffordshire Moorlands (Karen Bradley), took her time over the bid. She ensured that it was subject to the full gaze of regulatory scrutiny and did not just provide the rubber stamp that Fox hoped for. During that time, Fox found itself not only covering scandals but embroiled in scandals, with sexual harassment allegations and high-profile dismissals at Fox News. A rival bidder, Comcast, has come forward. The approval of both bids today means that this is not the end of the story. The Murdochs will be relieved that the old order is at least starting to reassert itself. Even before today, the new Secretary of State was doing what they asked of him, dumping the promises made to the victims of phone hacking by announcing that Leveson 2 would not go forward. Why is that relevant to this announcement? Well, the information that Leveson 2 would have revealed about corporate governance failure on an industrial scale is entirely relevant to the question of whether the merger would be good or bad for Sky’s adherence to broadcasting standards. Let us remind ourselves that the most recent allegations in the civil litigation against News Group Newspapers claim that senior executives at the top of the empire were not just culpably ignorant, but knowingly complicit about criminal conduct going on at News Group papers. Leveson 2 would have looked at that. The European Commission raided the London offices of 21st Century Fox just a few weeks ago as part of an investigation into violations of EU anti-trust rules. The Murdochs will be grateful that the Secretary of State is less curious than the officials who raided that building. We on the Labour Benches understand that there are many commercial and technical elements of this bid to consider, but for us the priority has been to safeguard the future of Sky News. From Kay Burley to Adam Boulton, Sky News has some of the best presenters on TV and has always been a beacon for independent and rigorous journalism. Our priority is protecting that and ensuring that Sky News thrives going forward. The Secretary of State has given his approval for the Fox bid today subject to Fox’s proposed remedy that Sky News be divested to Disney or a suitable alternative. We have serious concerns about that, including how we ensure the long-term future of Sky News as a UK-based independent organisation under this option. Were the Fox-Disney deal to fail, it could leave Sky News isolated from Sky and owned by a foreign company with few news interests in the UK. It is hard to see how that would be in the public interest. Does the Secretary of State really think that this proposal of divestment is in the best interests of Sky News, or would it become isolated and at sea? He made it clear that he had no concerns about the broadcasting standards. Is he concerned that the civil cases that are currently being brought against Murdoch papers such as The Sun will reveal corporate maladministration that could have altered his decision? Fox made many undertakings to get to this stage. Will the Secretary of State take personal political responsibility if Fox’s bid is successful and the guarantees that it made are broken, bearing in mind that the CMA opinion, expressed earlier this year, was that this deal was against the public interest? With Comcast now in the ring, the future for Sky is uncertain. A bidding war is on the horizon. That might be good for shareholders, but it is the Minister’s duty to protect the interests of the public. Sky is a gem of British broadcasting and is respected worldwide. Its future and global reputation for excellence is at stake in this process, so it is right that, if there is any doubt about whether the proposed solution is workable, it is the duty of the Secretary of State to ensure that this merger is blocked. Tom Watson - Hansard - - I refer to my entry in the register. The world has not changed. The “one rogue blagger” defence—it has been uttered from the mouth of the Secretary of State. When he announced last week that he was dropping the Leveson inquiry, the Culture Secretary said he was doing so because the inquiry “looked into everything in this area, and it was followed by three police investigations…We looked into these things as a society. We had a comprehensive Leveson inquiry.”—[Official Report, 1 March 2018; Vol. 636, c. 974.] He told us that the matter was closed—there was nothing more to see. Well, overnight, the BBC has reported allegations by another whistleblower, John Ford, who says that he was a blagger for The Sunday Times for 15 years—a newspaper that the Secretary of State did not even mention. Mr Ford claimed that he obtained private bank and mortgage information about Cabinet members and public figures. He says that his activity for the paper was illegal, intrusive and ultimately wrong. In his evidence to the first half of the public inquiry, Times editor John Witherow, who then edited The Sunday Times, conceded that Ford had worked for the paper, but did not reveal that he had done so for over a decade. Today, The Sunday Times has disputed the new claims. The second half of the Leveson inquiry could establish where the truth lies. That is what it was set up to do, but the Government are closing down the public inquiry before it has done its work, despite Sir Brian Leveson saying that he fundamentally disagrees with that decision, along with 130,000 concerned citizens who said it should go ahead and whom the Secretary of State has chosen to disregard. He is capitulating to the press barons, who want to use their raw power to close down a national public inquiry. In the light of the new allegations, will he reconsider his decision on the public inquiry into illegality in the press? If not, how will he assure the House and the public that these new allegations of criminal behaviour by The Sunday Times will be fully investigated? Is it not now clear to him that too many questions remain unanswered to justify the decision to break David Cameron’s solemn promise to the victims of press abuse? Tom Watson (West Bromwich East) (Lab) - Hansard - - As I have said through you before, Mr Speaker, timing is everything in politics. If I am looking a little breathless and fatigued this morning, it is because I have been carrying a heavy load in the past hour, lifting weights in the gym and visualising Paul Dacre. For the increasing number of colleagues who do not read the Daily Mail any more, I refer them to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests. With your indulgence, Mr Speaker, I shall take the Mosley issue head on. If I had thought for one moment that he held the views contained in that leaflet of 57 years ago, I would not have given him the time of day. He is, however, a man who, in the face of great family tragedy and overwhelming media intimidation, chose to use his limited resources to support the weak against the strong. On this issue, I would like to thank the Secretary of State for giving me advance sight of his statement, not just in the last half hour but over and over again, year after year. This announcement, conveniently timed to be buried under a flurry of snow, is a disappointment, a breach of trust and a bitter blow to the victims of press intrusion, but it is not in any way a surprise. We now know for certain what we have suspected all the time. When a Conservative Prime Minister, David Cameron, joined the other party leaders to say that he would keep his promises to the victims of phone hacking, he and his party were acting not out of conviction but out of weakness. For a brief period of time, and for the first time ever, our political parties had more to gain politically by standing up to the tabloid media than by bowing down to them. When every Conservative MP who was then in Parliament backed this policy, including the current Prime Minister and the present Secretary of State, they did not really mean it. They were waiting for the wind to change and for the fuss to die down. They were waiting for a time when they could, as quietly as possible, break their promises, and today that time has finally come. We already knew what the Conservatives really thought, when successive Secretaries of State refused to implement section 40 of the Crime and Courts Act 2013, the part of the Leveson system that would provide access to justice for ordinary citizens while offering protection to journalists and newspapers that signed up to any Leveson-compliant self-regulatory body. The papers, absurdly, caricatured it as state regulation, and pointed instead to the independence of their alternative, non-Leveson-compliant regulator, the Independent Press Standards Organisation. The Government were too scared to make the case for their own policy, and finally, today, they are formally capitulating. The Government are also capitulating on the question of whether to complete the investigation into how phone hacking happened and what is happening now. Underlying the phone hacking scandal, we saw one of the biggest corporate scandals and one of the biggest corporate governance failures of modern times. The Secretary of State says that the terms of reference of Leveson 2 have largely been met, but I do not agree. Here are some of the things that Leveson 2 was supposed to investigate: to inquire into the extent of illegality at News International; to inquire into the way the police investigated allegations relating to News International and other newspaper groups; to inquire into whether the police received corrupt payments and were complicit in suppressing the proper investigation of complaints; and to inquire into the extent of corporate governance and management failures at News International and other organisations. None of those questions has been answered, and by betraying the victims of phone hacking in this statement today, the Secretary of State is trying to ensure that they never will be. I ask him this question: if it is revealed that the criminality that took place at the News of the World extended to other newspapers, will he reconsider his position? The last thing the Murdoch empire, the Rothermere empire, the Barclay brothers’ empire or the Mirror Group wanted was an inquiry into their dirty laundry, with powers under the Inquiries Act 2005 to obtain documents and compel witnesses to appear in public. The last thing any of the newspapers wanted was more attention being paid to their methods at a time when it may well be revealed very soon that other papers, not necessarily the ones at the centre of the scandal in 2011, were also involved in criminality. They have been lobbying hard for today’s outcome. They will give the Secretary of State—a man who enjoys favourable headlines—plaudits in tomorrow’s leader columns. We already know that Paul Dacre, Rupert Murdoch and the Barclay brothers approve of his statement—after all, they helped to write it. The Secretary of State could have chosen to do the right thing, but instead he chose not to stand up to the tabloid-style newspapers that are propping up the Prime Minister and this Government, and that could pull the rug from under them whenever they choose. Let me close with the words of the former Prime Minister, David Cameron, to the Leveson inquiry in June 2012: “I will never forget meeting with the Dowler family in Downing Street to run through the terms of this Inquiry with them and to hear what they had been through and how it had redoubled, trebled the pain and agony they’d been through over losing Milly. I’ll never forget that, and that’s the test of all this. It’s not ‘do the politicians or the press feel happy with what we get?’ It’s ‘are we really protecting people who have been caught up and absolutely thrown to the wolves by this process?’ That’s what the test is.” The Secretary of State will prosper politically from his statement today, but he has failed that test. Tom Watson (West Bromwich East) (Lab) - Hansard - - I thank the Secretary of State for advance sight of his statement. This proposed merger has gone on for longer than the Murdochs ever expected, and for that I want to pay tribute to the Secretary of State’s predecessor, the right hon. Member for Staffordshire Moorlands (Karen Bradley). She could have done what the Murdoch family expected by clearing a path for the bid to go ahead, but she took her quasi-judicial responsibility seriously. I hope that the new Secretary of State will have as strong a regard for his responsibilities and for the public interest as his predecessor. I can assure him that if he does the right thing, he will have the support of the Opposition. The CMA says that if the Sky/Fox merger went ahead as proposed, it would be against the public interest. It would result in the Murdoch family having too much control over news providers in the UK, and too much influence over public opinion and the political agenda. Does the Secretary of State accept that assessment? The CMA says that it is not concerned about the proposed merger on broadcasting standards grounds, but in order to reach a proper assessment of that we need to look at corporate governance issues through part 2 of the Leveson inquiry. The Government have not yet published their response to the consultation on that, so can the Secretary of State tell the House when they intend to do so, and will he give us plenty of notice? The previous Secretary of State said last June that she was minded not to accept undertakings offered by Fox and Sky that were intended to safeguard the editorial independence of Sky News, which they put forward to mitigate Ofcom’s media plurality concerns. Does the new Secretary of State share his predecessor’s view of those undertakings? In November, Sky threatened to shut down Sky News if it proved to be a plurality obstacle in its bid. Will the Secretary of State reject any attempt by the Murdochs to blackmail him or the regulator by threatening Sky staff? Just this weekend, “friends” of the Secretary of State were quoted in the newspapers as hinting at the outcome of a separate Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport review of gambling stakes and prizes. Will he undertake, in his quasi-judicial role, not to speak to his “friends” about his views on the takeover, and to discourage them from talking to the press about them? When the Prime Minister took office 18 months ago, she stood on the steps of Downing Street and spoke directly to the country, saying: “When we take the big calls, we’ll think not of the powerful, but you”. This ambitious, thrusting new Secretary of State now has the opportunity to put her words into action. He can stand up to the rich and powerful, stand up to the Murdochs and act in the public interest. I hope that he will do the right thing. Tom Watson (West Bromwich East) (Lab) - Hansard - - Happy new year, Mr Speaker. May I start by offering my congratulations to the outgoing Secretary of State, the right hon. Member for Staffordshire Moorlands (Karen Bradley), on her new role? I also congratulate the new Secretary of State, who, unlike Carrie Gracie, has not turned down a £45,000 pay rise this week. He tweeted yesterday about how humble he was—something he has become well known for in recent years—but I know how important this promotion will be for his fragile self-esteem. We still live in a society in which confident men who believe in their own self-worth tend to rise to the top, or stay in position despite failure after failure, while talented women are more easily undervalued or forced out—but enough about the Prime Minister’s reshuffle. Carrie Gracie’s resignation as the BBC’s China editor highlights the issue of unequal pay in the BBC, in broadcasting and in society more generally, and we all have a role to play in stamping that out. Lord Hall said last year that he is determined to close the gender pay gap at the BBC, but this story shows that there is still a very long way to go. Carrie Gracie says in her public letter that she told her bosses when she took the job of China editor that she expected pay equality with her male peers and that she believed she had secured it. Does the Secretary of State believe that the corporation is, as Carrie says, in breach of equality legislation? How can employees of less transparent media companies know whether their employers are complying with equality law? The BBC is accountable to the public and we know more about the pay gap there than we do about the pay gap in other organisations. Is the Secretary of State confident that female staff in other broadcasters and media companies are paid as highly as their male colleagues? Will he call them in to encourage them to be as transparent as the BBC? What will he do to ensure that this story is used not just to criticise our national broadcaster, as other media organisations might wish, but to highlight pay inequality across the board? The people involved in this story are at the top of their profession and earn significant sums, but we need to be at least as concerned about pay equality and fair pay for BBC employees and contractors on the lowest pay, some of whom are on as little as £16,000 a year. What is the Secretary of State doing to ensure that low-paid workers are not forgotten? Will he ensure that those paid by independent production companies or through BBC Studios are not exempt from pay transparency? Does he agree, finally, that when it comes to unequal pay, we all have to say, “Time’s up.”? Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East) (Lab) - Hansard - - I fear that the Minister is having a Jim Hacker moment. In 114 days, the country faces an important decision. The referendum will dictate how in future the UK handles exports and imports, the world of work, the new contours of the digital age, human rights, intelligence sharing, the fight against crime, and how we adapt to climate change, and here we are today discussing guidelines for civil servants and special advisers. Sadly, I am not in the strongest of positions to lecture the poor Minister on handling splits in his party, but in the way that Opposition Front Benchers are almost duty bound to do, I would like to give him some advice. The Justice Secretary has a history of letting his special advisers off the leash. Does the Minister really think that a memorandum from a mandarin will change that? When we have a Prime Minister who allows his spin doctors to brief that the Justice Secretary will be sacked after the referendum, or that his chum the Mayor of London has breached the old school code and that the Prime Minister is “hurt and upset”, I understand how the Minister would have been overcome with a wave of ennui at the prospect of answering an urgent question from the Chair of the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee about the conduct of special advisers. However, answer for their conduct he must, and I wish to ask him how many special advisers have informed No. 10 of their intention to work on the no campaign. In the event of ministerial visits where a Minister and their special adviser campaign for a no vote after the event, will the cost of travel be carried by the Minister? How will that be monitored and made public? The guidelines state that special advisers are not allowed to campaign for a no vote in office hours. For the avoidance of doubt, please define “office hours”. When the inevitable happens and special advisers to those Ministers who are defying their leader completely ignore the memorandum from the Cabinet Secretary, on a scale of one to 10 how confident is the Minister that the Prime Minister will enforce the code? Does the Minister have the confidence to admit that these attempts to dilute the freedom of rebellious Ministers will only detract from the key issues that matter to voters in the referendum? It seems that the out campaign is attacking the referee, not the captain of the opposing side, yet the Prime Minister has a simple choice: either he gives his Ministers free rein to run their Departments, or he sacks them. It cannot be fudged for the next 114 days.
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Matt Hancock also said officials had to scramble to source protective equipment, set up mass testing and contact tracing systems “from scratch” once the coronavirus pandemic broke out because the U.K.'s planning attitude was entirely “geared towards how to clear up after a disaster, not prevent it.” “The doctrine of the U.K. was to plan for the consequences of a disaster — can we buy enough body bags? Where are we going to bury the dead?” Hancock said. “Large-scale testing did not exist and large-scale contact tracing did not exist because it was assumed that as soon as there was community transmission, it wouldn’t be possible to stop the spread, and therefore, what’s the point in contact tracing?” he added. That assumption was “completely wrong” and a “colossal” failure, Hancock said. Hancock acknowledged that an official pandemic preparedness board paused its work in 2018 to 2019 because resources were moved away to focus instead on the threat of a “disorganized Brexit.” Britain’s government was consumed in 2019 with the possibility of crashing out of the EU without a deal on the departure terms in place. A bitterly divided Parliament rejected then-Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit plan three times. The U.K. eventually left the trade bloc in 2020. As health secretary, Hancock became one of the best-known politicians in Britain as he led efforts to halt the spread of the coronavirus before he was forced to quit in June 2021, when he was caught breaking social distancing rules with an aide. Pictures of him kissing the aide in government offices were splashed across front pages at the time. Hancock has previously faced criticism about the U.K.'s COVID testing measures and how authorities failed to manage the spread of the pandemic in care homes for the elderly. The U.K. had one of the highest COVID-19 death tolls in Europe, with the virus recorded as a cause of death for almost 227,000 people. Hancock said an emotional sorry Tuesday to all those who died and were affected. “I’m profoundly sorry for each death that has occurred. I also understand why, for some, it will be hard to take that apology from me,” he said. Earlier, Hancock was confronted by members of the group COVID Families for Justice who held up pictures of relatives who died in the pandemic as he arrived at the inquiry in central London. The wide-ranging inquiry, led by a retired judge, aims to investigate the U.K.’s preparedness for the coronavirus pandemic, how the government responded and what lessons can be learned for the future. Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who led the U.K. during the pandemic, agreed in late 2021 to hold the probe after heavy pressure from bereaved families.
8744	dbpedia	2	0	https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/apr/10/revealed-david-cameron-stood-to-gain-from-218m-greensill-trust	en	Cameron ‘lobbied senior Downing St aide and Matt Hancock’ to help Greensill	https://i.guim.co.uk/img…e22cc8882cf0d07e	https://i.guim.co.uk/img…e22cc8882cf0d07e	[ "https://sb.scorecardresearch.com/p?c1=2&c2=6035250&cv=2.0&cj=1&cs_ucfr=0&comscorekw=David+Cameron%2CLobbying%2CRishi+Sunak%2CPolitics%2CUK+news%2CCoronavirus%2CGreensill", "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/8c4f1e4eed9ed939671006d67fbb212cd8e9ef37/0_142_3342_2006/master/3342.jpg?width=465&dpr=1&s=none" ]	[]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[ "Kalyeena Makortoff", "Michael Savage", "Ben Butler", "www.theguardian.com", "kalyeena-makortoff", "michael-savage", "ben-butler" ]	2021-04-10T00:00:00	Former PM also reported to have emailed a No 10 adviser after Treasury rejected his attempts to access Covid loan scheme	en	https://assets.guim.co.u…e-touch-icon.svg	the Guardian	https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/apr/10/revealed-david-cameron-stood-to-gain-from-218m-greensill-trust	David Cameron lobbied a senior Downing St aide and Matt Hancock, the health secretary, on behalf of a now collapsed company run by the scandal-hit financier Lex Greensill, it has emerged. In further revelations that show the lengths the former prime minister went to in his attempts to secure political access for Greensill Capital, which paid him as an adviser, Cameron emailed a No 10 adviser after the Treasury rejected his attempts to secure the company access to a Covid emergency loan scheme. Cameron said it was “nuts” to exclude Greensill’s company from the scheme, according to emails seen by the Sunday Times. As a shareholder, Cameron stood to gain from Greensill’s long-term success. However, his shares are worthless after its collapse. A Downing St spokesperson said: “Throughout the pandemic, an immense number of businesses contacted Downing Street with representations; these were passed on to relevant departments.” It also emerged on Saturday night that, in 2019, Cameron took Greensill along with him to a “private drink” with Hancock. They lobbied Hancock to introduce a payment scheme that was later introduced for NHS staff. There are no minutes of Hancock’s meeting with Cameron and Greensill. Later, NHS Shared Business Services (NHS SBS) announced a pilot scheme with Earnd, an outfit owned by Greensill, to pay NHS workers weekly or daily. It was a free service. An ally of Hancock said: “Matt acted in entirely the correct way – he updated officials on the business that was discussed, as is appropriate.” A Department of Health and Social Care Spokesperson said: “The wellbeing of NHS staff is the top priority of the department and Health Secretary. Our approach was and is that local NHS employers are best placed to decide how different pay flexibilities fit with their overall pay and reward offer for their staff.” Bridget Phillipson, the shadow chief secretary to the Treasury, called on chancellor Rishi Sunak, who was repeatedly lobbied by Cameron, to “make a statement to parliament at the earliest opportunity and answer questions on this growing scandal. And we need a full and thorough investigation into what happened”. The Observer can reveal that Cameron was in line to profit from a $30m (£21.8m) employee benefit trust registered in Jersey thanks to his role with the collapsed Greensill Capital. The revelation comes amid calls for the former prime minister to disclose just how much he was in line to gain from his role advising the firm. It follows a week in which further details emerged of Cameron’s lobbying of ministers, as he sought to persuade them to hand Greensill access to government-backed financial aid schemes. Cameron repeatedly texted chancellor Rishi Sunak to grant the lender access to the Bank of England’s Covid Corporate Financing Facility (CCFF). Text messages released last week show Sunak telling Cameron he had “pushed the team to explore an alternative with the Bank that might work”. There was also a call between the men, but it is not known if officials listened in on the call or whether notes were taken. While access to the CCFF was ultimately rebuffed, Britain’s public spending watchdog is considering a request to investigate how Greensill Capital was later accredited to the Coronavirus Large Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CLBILS), handing it the ability to access government-backed loans of up to £50m. Greensill records show 13,931 shares were held in two blocks by an offshore wealth manager, named as Jersey-based Sanne Fiduciary Services. A spokesperson for Sanne confirmed that these shares were held by two employee benefit trusts, reserved for stock options issued to employees. It is understood that none of the shares in these trusts had been distributed to staff by the time Greensill collapsed. Sanne said in a statement that it acted as a trustee to two employee benefit trusts established by Greensill Capital, and that it was a common structure used by companies who wanted to hold shares until they can be distributed to staff. Asked whether Cameron was one of the intended recipients of shares held in the trusts, Sanne and a source close to Cameron did not deny this was the case. A source close to Cameron said: “These Sanne stake figures bear no relation to David Cameron’s remuneration and presumably refer to a large number of employees and advisers.” The source disputed reports that Cameron told friends he was set for a $60m windfall if Greensill floated on the stock exchange. “The figures being bandied around about his subsequent remuneration from Greensill are becoming increasingly inaccurate,” the source said. “His reported ‘boast’ to friends about his remuneration is fiction, but people keep repeating it.” Meanwhile, the National Audit Office (NAO) is examining whether to investigate claims that Greensill Capital’s access to the scheme created a risk to public funds. While the NAO cannot look into Greensill’s business, it is able to investigate issues where value for public money is at stake. Anneliese Dodds, the shadow chancellor, has now written to Gareth Davies, head of the NAO, asking for an investigation. The government has stated that the decision to accredit Greensill to the loan scheme was taken independently by the British Business Bank (BBB) and involved a “robust accreditation process”. The BBB later withdrew the state guarantee to Greensill’s loans. A spokesperson for Greensill Capital did not comment.
8744	dbpedia	3	46	https://bylinetimes.com/2021/07/20/david-cameron-in-government-summit-with-firm-employing-him-as-a-consultant/	en	David Cameron in Government Summit with Firm Employing him as a Consultant	https://bylinetimes.com/…hawi-600x314.jpg	https://bylinetimes.com/…hawi-600x314.jpg	[ "https://bylinetimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/eye-green.svg", "https://bylinetimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/eye-green.svg", "https://bylinetimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/byline-times-logo.png", "https://bylinetimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/byline-times-logo.png", "https://bylinetimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/newspaper-white.svg", "https://bylinetimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/newspaper-white.svg", "https://bylinetimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/newspaper.svg", "https://bylinetimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/newspaper.svg", "https://bylinetimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/cameron-zahawi.jpg", "https://bylinetimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/cameron-zahawi.jpg", "https://bylinetimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/bylinetimes-logo.svg", "https://bylinetimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/bylinetimes-logo.svg" ]	[]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[ "Sam Bright" ]	2021-07-20T00:00:00	The former Prime Minister and one of his clients met with a Business minister days before the Greensill lobbying scandal hit the headlines	en	https://bylinetimes.com/…x512-327x327.png	Byline Times	https://bylinetimes.com/2021/07/20/david-cameron-in-government-summit-with-firm-employing-him-as-a-consultant/	David Cameron in Government Summitwith Firm Employing him as a Consultant The former Prime Minister and one of his clients met with a business minister days before the Greensill lobbying scandal hit the headlines Government minister Nadhim Zahawi held a summit in March this year with David Cameron and a firm that employs the former Prime Minister, Byline Times can reveal. Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) records show that Under-Secretary of State Zahawi met with Cameron and a company called Illumina on 1 March to discuss “UK genomics sequencing”. Illumina is a US-owned company that specialises in genomic and biological analysis. The former Prime Minister joined its ranks in 2017 as a consultant and chairman of the international advisory board. The Times reported in April that Illumina had secured a £123 million contract with the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), just a week after Cameron appeared with the then Health and Social Care Secretary Matt Hancock at a genomics conference in September 2019. The contract was awarded without competition. Cameron has denied lobbying the Government on any Illumina contracts, saying that his role at the company was solely to promote the benefits of genome sequencing. In recent months, Cameron has been immersed in a scandal involving another client – financial services company Greensill Capital. It was revealed in mid-March, not long after the Zahawi-Illumina meeting, that Cameron had lobbied senior officials and Cabinet ministers, including the Chancellor, on behalf of Greensill. Cameron was attempting to secure greater involvement for Greensill in the Government’s emergency COVID-19 loans scheme. Ultimately, it rejected Greensill’s proposals despite Cameron’s persistent lobbying, with the firm filing for insolvency protection on 8 March, after its insurer walked away. It was later revealed that Lex Greensill, its owner, had worked for the Cabinet Office as an unpaid advisor from 2012 to 2015, during Cameron’s time in Downing Street. Greensill had also been commissioned by the Government to introduce an early payment facility for health workers and a working capital programme for pharmacies. Today, Parliament’s Treasury Committee has concluded in a report into the Greensill affair that Cameron showed a “significant lack of judgement” in the way he lobbied the Government. Although Cameron did not break any lobbying rules, there is a “good case for strengthening them,” the committee says. Indeed, the lobbyist register only logs companies and self-employed consultants, rather than individuals working for firms. Cameron’s work for Greensill was therefore not recorded. The Advisory Committee on Business Appointments (ACOBA) – a watchdog designed to police the jobs that ex-ministers and senior officials take after they have left office – also only covers the two years after an individual has left their Government role. ENJOYING THIS ARTICLE? HELP US TO PRODUCE MORE Receive the monthly Byline Times newspaper and help to support fearless, independent journalism that breaks stories, shapes the agenda and holds power to account. We’re not funded by a billionaire oligarch or an offshore hedge-fund. We rely on our readers to fund our journalism. If you like what we do, please subscribe. The Financial Times reported on 12 July that Cameron was paid $1 million a year – equivalent to $40,000 a day – by Greensill. His income from Illumina is unknown. Cameron’s meeting with Zahawi and Illumina raises further questions about the regulation and monitoring of lobbying activities by former Government employees. The records released by BEIS, for example, do not declare Cameron’s commercial interest in the firm – while the minutes of the meeting are limited to a five-word sentence. There is no suggestion of wrongdoing by Illumina, David Cameron or the Government. The rules, as they are currently devised, allow these activities to take place with little transparency. There has also been controversy over a number of meetings that have been held between ministers and private companies during the Coronavirus pandemic. Byline Times recently revealed that the DHSC failed to declare 27 meetings held by Health Minister Lord James Bethell at the start of the crisis. The firms involved went on to acquire public sector contracts worth £1.14 billion. The Government has strongly refuted any suggestion of cronyism during the past 16 months. However, in failing to uphold high standards of transparency, there will inevitably be an underlying suspicion that it may have something to hide. “This meeting was in no way connected to government contracts and none were discussed,” a DHSC spokesperson said. “Proper due diligence is carried out for all government contracts and we take these checks extremely seriously.” Illumina and the office of David Cameron were contacted for comment.
8744	dbpedia	3	31	https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/04/17/lobb-j01.html	en	UK lobbying scandal balloons	https://www.wsws.org/asset/5fdcc151-4679-43d9-81bf-70f2c0992540?rendition=image1280&v=3		[ "https://www.wsws.org/static/img/wswslogo4red.png", "https://www.wsws.org/static/img/wswslogo4red.png", "https://www.wsws.org/static/img/wswslogo4red.png", "https://www.wsws.org/static/img/wswslogo4red.png", "https://www.wsws.org/static/img/wswslogo4red.png", "https://www.wsws.org/static/img/wswslogo4red.png", "https://www.wsws.org/asset/191591ad-00cf-471a-93fe-8c399b781394?rendition=image1280&v=3", "https://www.wsws.org/asset/5fdcc151-4679-43d9-81bf-70f2c0992540?rendition=image1280&v=3", "https://www.wsws.org/asset/a267e9a9-a360-4724-b0af-db66239b3337?rendition=image1280&v=2", "https://www.wsws.org/asset/306a06b9-8d68-48fc-a905-ae307559f40f?rendition=image1280&v=2", "https://piwik.wsws.org/analytics/piwik/piwik.php?idsite=1&rec=1" ]	[]	[]	[ "David Cameron", "Greensill Capital", "Matt Hancock", "Robert Jenwick", "Nigel Boardman" ]	null	[]	2021-04-17T00:00:00	Prime Minister Boris Johnson, while widely known to be less than friendly towards Cameron, is desperate to shut the scandal down before he and his close allies are pulled deeper into the mire.			World Socialist Web Site	https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/04/17/lobb-j01.html	The lobbying scandal around former UK Prime Minister David Cameron and finance company Greensill Capital is rapidly expanding. After Greensill collapsed this March, a series of investigations by the Times and Financial Times revealed that Cameron had become an advisor for the company in 2018 and tried to use his political and personal connections to secure government financial backing. Cameron reportedly held millions of pounds’ worth of shares in the operation. Founder Lex Greensill had been a special advisor to the Tory government under Cameron, where he used his position to push a policy which benefited his company. Cameron’s actions implicated Chancellor Rishi Sunak and Health Secretary Matt Hancock. Sunak promised Cameron he would “push the team” at the Treasury to find ways of supporting Greensill. Hancock had a private drink with Cameron and Lex Greensill in 2019, after which the company secured a major contract within the National Health Service (NHS) without a competitive tendering process. Since these original investigations, more government figures have been exposed for their close connections with Greensill. Earlier this week, it was revealed that senior civil servant Bill Crothers—for a time the government’s chief procurement officer, overseeing £40 billion of spending—took a job as a paid adviser to Greensill two months before stepping down from the civil service in November 2015, an appointment agreed to by the Cabinet Office. Crothers became a director at the company in 2016 and reportedly accrued shareholdings worth £5.8 million by 2019. A few days later, another senior government adviser, David Brierwood, was found to have been a director on Greensill’s board for the entire three-and-a-half years he was working in Whitehall. Brierwood had been a banker at Morgan Stanley and was brought into government under Cameron in 2014, two years after Lex Greensill. Within two months, Brierwood was working at Greensill Capital. Greensill evidently made a special point of securing advisers with government connections. Its work in the National Health Service (NHS) was carried out by subsidiary company Earnd (now also in administration) whose advisory board included former Labour minister Lord David Blunkett and former leading Tory adviser on homelessness Dame Louise Casey. Outside of Greensill, former BP executive John Mazoni kept a £100,000 a year directorship at alcoholic and soft drinks company SABMiller when he became chief executive of the civil service under Cameron. He gained a knighthood last year before leaving the civil service and becoming chairman of energy firm SSE and a non-executive director at drinks giant Diageo. For scores of business interests, there is quite literally an open door into government. Recent analysis by the Mirror of the list of people given passes for access to the Houses of Parliament by members of the House of Lords—reserved for secretaries, researchers, drivers and carers—found more than 100 people with declared interests as lobbyists or representatives of interest groups. The scandal has created a panic in the political elite, all swimming in the same gutter, with different factions rushing to cover themselves and shift attention elsewhere. There are now three select committees carrying out investigations into the scandal—the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee, Treasury committee and Public Accounts committee—in addition to an independent inquiry commissioned by Prime Minister Boris Johnson, a Whitehall review ordered by Cabinet Secretary Simon Chase and a review by the Committee on Standards in Public Life. Crothers’s history was revealed by the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments (Acoba), chaired by Conservative Lord Eric Pickles, as part of an attempt to shift focus away from the Tory Party and onto the civil service. The effort is undermined by the fact that all of this has been taking place on Acoba’s watch. On Wednesday, the i newspaper revealed that a member of Acoba, former Conservative council leader Andrew Cumptsy, is the leader of two lobbying firms—Cumptsy Communications and the Enterprise Forum. The latter advertises itself as a “link between the leaders of UK Industry and the Conservative Party Cabinet”. Cumptsy Communications acts on behalf of the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for SME House Builders, a lobby group for small and medium-sized property developers. The president of the Enterprise Forum is Pickles—a role he failed to declare before becoming Acoba’s chair. Johnson’s inquiry is itself an exercise in cronyism and corruption. It will be chaired by corporate lawyer Nigel Boardman, the son of a former Tory cabinet minister. He still holds a prestigious position at the British Museum, given to him by Cameron. Boardman also works as a non-executive director at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, for which he has been paid £20,000 a year. The department had significant dealing with Greensill through the British Business Bank. Boardman’s law firm, Slaughter and May, worked closely with the Treasury to set up the COVID Corporate Financing Facility (CCFF) which Cameron tried to secure access to for Greensill. The law firm briefed against lobbying reforms proposed by Cameron in 2014 and Boardman himself conducted a whitewash of the government’s handing out of contracts to the private sector during the pandemic. Johnson, while widely known to be less than friendly towards Cameron, is desperate to shut the scandal down before he and his close allies are pulled deeper into the mire. The prime minister is still in the middle of corruption allegations over his relations with Jennifer Arcuri. Johnson had an affair with the businesswoman while Mayor of London, during which time she gained access to thousands of pounds of public money and was given positions on trade missions to New York and Tel Aviv. The whole Tory government is implicated in the handing out of billions of pounds worth of contracts to the private sector to provide personal protective and testing equipment—a large chunk of it with no competition or transparency and to close friends of the Tory Party. Prince among thieves is the Health Secretary. In the last few days, it emerged that Hancock was gifted a 20 percent stake in Topwood Ltd, a company part-owned by his sister, just a month before it was awarded a contract by NHS Wales. Labour have sought to capitalise on these events, accusing the Tories of “sleaze”. Shadow cabinet minister Rachel Reeves unsuccessfully pushed for a parliamentary inquiry, saying Johnson’s “has all the hallmarks of another cover-up by the Conservatives.” This is rank hypocrisy. Labour’s being out of power for 11 years has merely left its MPs with fewer opportunities to get their noses in the trough. But where the party does hold power, in the local councils, its representatives are no less rotten than their Tory counterparts. Labour-run Lambeth council in London is currently carrying out the latest in a long run of social cleansing operations in close collaboration with private property developers. A leading role is played by Tom Branton, appointed as the council’s Director of Regeneration in 2020. Branton was a lead officer at Southwark council a decade ago, where he organised a similar scheme involving property developer Lendlease. He left the council to join the company shortly afterwards, manging the project he had just authorised. In Liverpool, Joe Anderson, Labour Mayor since 2012, was arrested last September on suspicion of conspiracy to commit bribery and witness intimidation—he denies any wrongdoing. A report by local government executive Max Caller has found that up to £100 million of public money may have been misused by Liverpool council due to the awarding of “dubious contracts”, a lack of record keeping and “an environment of intimidation”. The report revealed that a firm run by Anderson’s son was given a role in a demolition project, despite having “no published highways experience”, on the “direct instruction” of the council. It noted that many senior councillors had not declared gifts or hospitality in the register of interests. In a profoundly undemocratic move, the city has been placed in the hands of commissioners appointed by Tory local government secretary Robert Jenrick. Last summer, Jenrick himself overruled a planning inspector to quickly approve a £1 billion pound development scheme run by Tory donor and former pornographer Richard Desmond, a day ahead of new infrastructure charges coming into effect. Jenrick’s intervention saved Desmond’s company £30-50 million, lost to the local council. Jenrick also allowed the number of affordable housing units to be slashed, saving the company another £100 million. Desmond had paid £12,000 to attend a Tory fundraising dinner in November, sitting next to Jenrick. British capitalism has abandoned all pretence of fair competition, impartial regulation and democratic accountability. From a body which defends the interests of the capitalist class in general, the government has degraded into little more than an auction house for the sale of personal favours. The Greensill scandal threatens to become a major national crisis by exposing this reality.
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Cummings has spent the best part of 15 years coming up against Hancock in the political sphere, with the relationship growing ever more acrimonious over time, PoliticsHome has learnt. “It’s actually not too dissimilar to the Johnson and Gove dynamic,” a veteran ex-Westminster staffer said. “You’ve got a nemesis and you’re in each other’s universe for a long, long, time. With Hancock and Cummings it’s basically like the film What Ever Happened To Baby Jane – it’s the old rivalry between Bette Davis and Joan Crawford – then they get put in the same film together.” “They’re really just two extremes. There’s the Brexiteer, and the establishment figure who is in awe of the establishment.” Another former government staff member said Cummings’s fixation on Hancock’s position in government was “weird and unjustified” and had been going on for years with Cummings never being able to move past Hancock being David Cameron and George Osborne’s original poster boy. According to insiders in government at the time, the pair first came into each other’s space professionally in the 2000s as relative equals when Hancock was appointed chief of staff to then shadow chancellor Osborne. Cummings was an adviser to Michael Gove, then the shadow minister for children, schools and families. “Matt did rub a lot of people up the wrong way back then,” the veteran ex-staffer said. “He enjoyed George’s patronage and was cocky and lorded it over people. He’s changed an awful lot since then but that’s how it was.” Another former government staffer said: “Dom has known him for more than a decade and a half and saw him as part of the Cameron clique 15 years ago. “No-one thinks about Hancock as the 'Cameron guy, the Osborne guy' anymore but Dom doesn’t seem to be able to move past that.” Despite his reputation for irritating colleagues, Hancock was given a “plum seat” in West Suffolk at the 2010 general election by Cameron, the source said, but at that point things started to go badly for Cummings and his proximity to power. When Gove was appointed Education Secretary following the Conservatives’ election to government in 2010, Andy Coulson, then director of Downing Street communications, blocked him from bringing Cummings – already Gove’s trusted adviser – along into government. But after the phone hacking scandal pushed Coulson out of No.10 in 2011, Cummings was appointed Gove’s adviser again. According to sources Cummings and Hancock really began to butt heads at the Department for Education when Hancock was a junior minister for skills, split between education and the then-department for Business, Innovation and Skills between 2012 and 2013. Those with knowledge of the junior minister-spad dynamic in that department said at that point, Cummings was more senior partner. “At the DfE Hancock was a loyal minister, whereas Dom spent most of his time telling No.10 to ‘fuck off’. The fact he had a minister who he knew had a good relation with No.10, he probably hated [that],” a former government staffer said. Following the 2019 general election, Cummings and Hancock were back in each other’s worlds on a full time basis when Boris Johnson re-appointed Hancock as health secretary, and Cummings was installed as the most senior adviser in Downing Street. It was known within Westminster that Cummings did not rate Hancock, but in the evidence session on Wednesday their relationship appeared even more dysfunctional than political observers had realised. Cummings saved his most scathing testimony for Hancock, who he described as wildly incompetent and accused him of lying to the Prime Minister on testing taking place for those discharged from hospitals into care homes. Hancock denies he was dishonest. The ex-government staffer said Hancock’s messages to Cummings were on occasions ignored, or he’d be late in getting a response from him, setting out a breakdown in fluid communications. There were also several destabilising briefings against the health secretary that hit the papers, some of which were “massively personal”, including that he was being too ambitious on testing. The former government staffer said: “Cummings literally said [in his evidence] when the health secretary was trying to ramp up testing, that he told officials ‘don’t do what Matt wants you to do’. “It’s one thing if people aren’t engaging but another thing if you see people are sabotaging what you’re trying to do. “He just treated Hancock with contempt. “The biggest irony in this whole thing is Hancock and Cummings on policy grounds are in a similar place in the pandemic, especially on a second lockdown. “When we were coming out of things they wanted to come out quite slowly. On a lot of the big arguments over the course of the pandemic they were in a similar place, which is why it’s so strange he would go for him in the way he did.” PoliticsHome Newsletters
8744	dbpedia	0	33	https://covid19.public-inquiry.uk/documents/inq000221929-witness-statement-of-david-cameron-former-prime-minister-of-the-united-kingdom-between-2010-2016-dated-21-07-2023/	en	Witness Statement of David Cameron, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom between 2010	https://covid19.public-i…ial-fallback.png	https://covid19.public-i…ial-fallback.png	[]	[]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[]	2023-12-04T11:43:00+00:00	The independent public inquiry to examine the Covid-19 pandemic in the UK	en	https://covid19.public-i…icon-150x150.png	UK Covid-19 Inquiry	https://covid19.public-inquiry.uk/documents/inq000221929-witness-statement-of-david-cameron-former-prime-minister-of-the-united-kingdom-between-2010-2016-dated-21-07-2023/	INQ000221929 – Witness Statement of David Cameron, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom between 2010-2016, dated 21/07/2023 Published: 4 December 2023 Type: Evidence Module: Module 1 Witness Statement of David Cameron, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom between 2010-2016, dated 21/07/2023 Download this document English (PDF)
8744	dbpedia	1	86	https://www.helensburghadvertiser.co.uk/news/national/23092981.matt-hancock-pandemic-health-secretary-bushtucker-trials/	en	Matt Hancock: From pandemic health secretary to bushtucker trials	https://www.helensburghadvertiser.co.uk/resources/images/16108167/?type=og-image	https://www.helensburghadvertiser.co.uk/resources/images/16108167/?type=og-image	[ "https://www.helensburghadvertiser.co.uk/resources/images/small_site_logo/", "https://www.helensburghadvertiser.co.uk/resources/images/small_site_logo/", "https://www.helensburghadvertiser.co.uk/resources/images/16108167.jpg?type=mds-article-575 575w, /resources/images/16108167.jpg?type=mds-article-962 962w, /resources/images/16108167.jpg?type=mds-article-642 642w, /resources/images/16108167.jpg?type=mds-article-620 620w", "https://image.assets.pressassociation.io/v2/image/production/9ed29376ec9c583f1d30a65beb511737Y29udGVudHNlYXJjaGFwaSwxNjY3MzkxMTA3/2.60405673.jpg?w=320 320w, https://image.assets.pressassociation.io/v2/image/production/9ed29376ec9c583f1d30a65beb511737Y29udGVudHNlYXJjaGFwaSwxNjY3MzkxMTA3/2.60405673.jpg?w=640 640w, https://image.assets.pressassociation.io/v2/image/production/9ed29376ec9c583f1d30a65beb511737Y29udGVudHNlYXJjaGFwaSwxNjY3MzkxMTA3/2.60405673.jpg?w=1280 1280w", "https://www.helensburghadvertiser.co.uk/resources/images/captcha2/?k=78d5bcd6931e8150d65381d0e9c54471", "https://www.helensburghadvertiser.co.uk/resources/responsive-static/mds/images/ipso-regulated.svg", "https://www.helensburghadvertiser.co.uk/resources/responsive-static/images/love-local.png", "https://www.helensburghadvertiser.co.uk/resources/images/pixel/" ]	[]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[ "PA News Agency" ]	2022-11-01T12:40:04+00:00	Joining I’m A Celebrity is the latest career twist for the former health secretary.	en	/resources/images/17396937/	Helensburgh Advertiser	https://www.helensburghadvertiser.co.uk/news/national/23092981.matt-hancock-pandemic-health-secretary-bushtucker-trials/	Swapping the world of Westminster for jungle antics with Ant and Dec is certainly an unorthodox shift for the former minister, whose government career had an unfortunate ending after he resigned in the aftermath of his affair with an aide that broke his own coronavirus rules. Only in recent days was Mr Hancock reportedly mulling a bid to become chair of the Treasury Select Committee, apparently opting instead for bushtucker trials instead of banks and bonds. Appointed health secretary in 2018 after spending 18 months in the culture brief, he had been a prominent figure for the government during its handling of the coronavirus pandemic until his abrupt exit. He had faced pressure to stand down after pictures emerged depicting the married minister appearing to kiss his adviser Gina Coladangelo, with CCTV images published in The Sun taken on May 6 when guidance on social distancing were still in place, with hugging between people from different households recommended against. It was not the first time Mr Hancock had faced a negative headline during his time in office. Around the same period, Boris Johnson’s former aide Dominic Cummings had shared text messages in which Boris Johnson was said to have called the health secretary “hopeless”. Mr Cummings accused the senior minister of lying to the prime minister over promises to protect those in care homes during the first wave of Covid-19 infections by testing new residents before being admitted. Mr Hancock dismissed claims he lied and called Mr Johnson’s “hopeless” jibe “ancient history”. Mr Hancock, who in 2018 became the only MP in British politics to launch his own app, took only eight years to rise from West Suffolk MP to health secretary. The Oxford and Cambridge educated father-of-three previously worked as an economist at the Bank of England and as chief of staff to George Osborne when he was shadow chancellor of the exchequer, before taking a seat in the Commons. The Cheshire-raised politician first attended cabinet after being appointed Minister for the Cabinet Office in 2015 by then prime minister David Cameron. Mr Cameron’s successor Theresa May later promoted him to the role of culture secretary. The 42-year-old initially threw his hat into the ring to replace Mrs May in No 10 during the 2019 Conservative Party leadership contest but withdrew from the leadership race part way through and was quick to throw his weight behind Mr Johnson. He was among the handful of ministers to retain his brief when Mr Johnson took power in July 2019, making him one of the most prominent ministers when coronavirus rocked Britain eight months later. In his resignation video, he said that he was looking forward to “supporting the government and the prime minister from the back benches to make sure that we can get out of this pandemic”. After Boris Johnson’s downfall this summer, he was an enthusiastic backer of Mr Sunak and speculation persisted that he still harboured a return to a Government role. Even as Liz Truss’s government crumbled, his advice from the sidelines did little to dampen that speculation. “There’s a huge amount of talent on the backbenches, I’m not talking about me, but there are many others that should be brought into Government,” he suggested as Ms Truss clung to power. Once she resigned, he returned as a vocal Sunak backer – although his standing in the new leader’s camp was brought into sharp relief after the victorious Mr Sunak appeared to blank the former health secretary, who stood waiting to greet him at the front of the crowd at Conservative HQ. His decision to join I’m a Celebrity has already prompted mockery, as well as swift repercussions politically – Chief Whip Simon Hart said the situation was so serious he should have the right to sit as a Conservative suspended. Allies said he would use his appearance to promote his backbench work on dyslexia, as he tried to “embrace” popular culture. “Politicians like Matt must go to where the people are – particularly those who are politically disengaged,” one ally said. Others were less flattering. Andy Drummond, deputy chairman (political) of West Suffolk Conservative Association, told PA news agency: “I’m looking forward to him eating a kangaroo’s penis. “Quote me. You can quote me that.”
8744	dbpedia	3	5	https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/matt-hancock-what-did-he-do-b2225485.html	en	Matt Hancock: What did he do and why do some people hate the former health secretary?	https://static.independe…h=1200&auto=webp	https://static.independe…h=1200&auto=webp	[ "https://www.independent.co.uk/img/logo-white-out.svg", "https://static.independent.co.uk/static-assets/images/newsletter/morning-headline/morning-headline.jpg", "https://static.independent.co.uk/2022/11/10/22/shutterstock_editorial_13617006b.jpg?quality=75&width=230&auto=webp", "https://static.independent.co.uk/2022/11/10/10/newFile-1.jpg?quality=75&width=230&auto=webp", "https://static.independent.co.uk/2022/11/08/22/newFile-1.jpg?quality=75&width=230&auto=webp", "https://www.independent.co.uk/img/icons/google.svg" ]	[]	[]	[ "Matt Hancock", "I'm A Celebrity", "Covid", "Rishi Sunak", "Boris Johnson", "Internal - Not for syndication" ]	null	[ "Liam James" ]	2022-11-15T14:56:35+00:00	Controversial former health secretary has drawn tears as well as confrontation in the jungle	en	/img/shortcut-icons/favicon.ico	The Independent	https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/matt-hancock-what-did-he-do-b2225485.html	Viewers of hit ITV reality show I’m A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! are tuning in each evening to watch Matt Hancock attempt to make his way in the Australian jungle. Those unaware of the politician’s past might be struggling to understand why he caused so much of a stir in the camp of varyingly famous people, with popstar Boy George being reduced to tears by Mr Hancock’s arrival. This emotional reaction lies in his role as health secretary in Boris Johnson’s government during the pandemic. Before accepting his government career was over and signing a reputed £400,000 deal to trade Westminster for the bush, Mr Hancock, 44, was known to much of the British public as the man who held the lives of millions in his hands as he led the government’s medical response to the deadly coronavirus. George, the Culture Club singer, said his mum was seriously ill in hospital during lockdown. “I wasn’t allowed to see her. I thought she was going to die,” he said, adding that he would have walked off the show when Mr Hancock arrived had she died. Mr Hancock’s exit from government was infamous, sparked by a full-page picture on the front of The Sun showing the married minister kissing an aide despite lockdown rules being in place. CCTV images showed Mr Hancock embracing his adviser Gina Coladangelo on 6 May 2021 when guidance on social distancing were still in place, with hugging between people from different households recommended against. He resigned on 26 June, after some three years in the job. It was not the first time Mr Hancock had faced a negative headline during his time in office. The circumstances of his departure caused a stir in the jungle within days of his arrival. On camp, TV presenter and property expert Scarlette Douglas told Mr Hancock there were “a lot of things that happened with you during the times, which does make it difficult because people are angry and upset – emotions are running high.” Ms Douglas continued: “It was hard. A lot of people had difficult times. And then to see that people that had kind of set the rules had then broken them, I think was a big slap in the face for everyone.” Around the time Mr Hancock resigned, Mr Johnson’s former aide Dominic Cummings had shared text messages in which the then-prime minister was said to have called the health secretary “hopeless”. Mr Cummings accused the senior minister of lying to the prime minister over promises to protect those in care homes during the first wave of Covid-19 infections by testing new residents before being admitted. Mr Hancock dismissed claims. The High Court later ruled the government’s policy unlawful, after more than 40,000 care home residents had died from causes involving Covid. The government’s scientific advisers warned in February 2020 that Covid could possibly be passed by people even if they were showing no symptoms. Evidence supporting this case built throughout March but the judge in the High Court case said there was no evidence Mr Hancock had addressed the risk to care home residents of allowing the admission of untested hospital patients. The High Court earlier ruled that Mr Hancock had acted unlawfully by handing out PPE contracts without publishing details on the recipients in the set deadline of 30 days. Mr Cummings later told a parliamentary committee that “tens of thousands of people died who didn’t need to die” during the pandemic due to government blunders and that Mr Hancock should have been fired on “15 to 20” different occasions. Mr Hancock, who in 2018 became the only MP in British politics to launch his own app, took only eight years from his first days as West Suffolk MP to rise to health secretary. The Oxford and Cambridge-educated father-of-three previously worked as an economist at the Bank of England and as chief of staff to George Osborne when he was shadow chancellor of the exchequer, before taking a seat in the Commons. The Cheshire-raised politician first attended cabinet after being appointed Minister for the Cabinet Office in 2015 by then prime minister David Cameron. Mr Cameron’s successor Theresa May later promoted him to the role of culture secretary. The 42-year-old initially threw his hat into the ring to replace Mrs May in No 10 during the 2019 Conservative Party leadership contest but withdrew from the leadership race part way through and was quick to throw his weight behind Mr Johnson, the eventual victor. After Mr Johnson’s downfall this summer, he was an enthusiastic backer of Mr Sunak and speculation persisted that he still harboured a return to a government role. He was embarassingly passed over by Mr Sunak, despite having strongly hinted in public comments that he wanted to return to cabinet. His decision to join I’m a Celebrity prompted mockery, as well as swift repercussions politically. He had the Tory whip removed on the same day news of his jungle ambitions broke and Mr Sunak said he was “disappointed” by the MP’s decision to effectively abandon his constituents for as many as three weeks. Allies said Mr Hancock would use his appearance to promote his backbench work on dyslexia, as he tried to “embrace” popular culture. “Politicians like Matt must go to where the people are – particularly those who are politically disengaged,” one ally said. Others were less flattering. Andy Drummond, deputy political chair of West Suffolk Conservative Association, said: “I’m looking forward to him eating a kangaroo’s penis. Quote me. You can quote me that.”
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It is a column of praise for technocratic, wonkish politician-managers written by someone	en	https://www.spectator.co…e-touch-icon.png	The Spectator	https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/matt-hancock-and-rishi-sunak-show-why-we-need-professional-politicians/	Coronavirus commentary often takes a familiar form, which can easily be parodied thus: ‘Why the Coronavirus crisis justifies the thing I was arguing for before the crisis.’ I mention this because this article could, I suppose, be written off in that way. It is a column of praise for technocratic, wonkish politician-managers written by someone who runs a centrist think-tank. I would say this, wouldn’t I? Well, perhaps, but I will say it anyway: the coronavirus crisis is reminding us that we should, once again, value politicians whose primary skill is understanding, gripping and managing complicated stuff and whose inclination is to put that management ahead of appealing to the emotions of voters. By way of evidence, I offer you Matt Hancock and Rishi Sunak. If you, like many others, keep a regular eye on Downing Street’s daily media briefing, you’ll have seen that the Chancellor and, most recently yesterday the health secretary, have emerged as the ministers best able to demonstrate command of their brief and a sense of grip on the crisis. Since we all now live our social lives via social media, I have observed via the magic of WhatsApp non-political friends’ responses to Sunak and Hancock in almost real-time. To at least some people outside the Westminster bubble, both have cut through and delivered at least a bit of reassurance that the people in charge have some idea of what they’re doing. After a rocky few days, my guess is that Hancock’s impressive performance at yesterday’s briefing will help steady the ship that is the government’s communications effort. This is no small matter, given that the implementation of policy (lockdown) ultimately depends on public confidence in the people behind that policy. Sunak’s nerveless assurance probably had similar calming effects on what remains a fragile, faltering economy when he announced his financial support packages last month. To be clear, neither man has fixed anything yet. The testing problems Hancock addressed remain unresolved. The economic outlook Sunak addressed remains dire. But at least they looked like they understood the situation, had a plan to respond and were capable of overseeing its implementation. This is worth noting because Hancock and Sunak are the sort of politicians we are supposed to have grown weary of. Their CVs are almost generic. Private school then PPE (no, the other sort) at Oxford, followed by brief spells in finance (Sunak: Goldman Sachs and hedgefunds. Hancock: the Bank of England). Then quickly into political apparatchik jobs (Hancock: George Osborne’s adviser. Sunak: a Tory think-tank) and a safe Tory seat in your 30s. Then a rapid leap to Cabinet. (Hancock, 41, became an MP at 31 and a Cabinet minister at 39. Sunak, 39, entered the Commons at 35 and took full Cabinet rank in February.) By inclination, neither Sunak nor Hancock is a tub-thumping partisan; it’s quite easy to imagine that had they been born a decade earlier, they might have sat alongside the likes of Andy Burnham and James Purnell (both 50) in a later Blair Cabinet. Both give the impression that politics is more an exercise of skill and judgement than the work of deep conviction. Overall, it’s hard to resist the conclusion that they are cut from the same cloth as David Cameron, who was once asked why he wanted to be PM and replied: ‘Because I’d be good at it.’ Sunak and Hancock are, in short, the sort of bloodless technocratic ‘professional politicians’ the nation is supposed to have rejected when it sent Cameron packing. But here’s the thing. Cameron is out because he wasn’t, ultimately, good at it. But that doesn’t mean that there is no use or value in clever, young professional politicos with big brains and bottomless confidence. It just means David Cameron wasn’t as clever as he thought he was. It does not logically follow that because Cameron failed as PM that politicians from the same mould cannot succeed elsewhere. Indeed, the coronavirus crisis is precisely the sort of situation when the people you want in charge are smart, confident types able to absorb great stacks of detailed information without losing sight of strategic goals. This is a time for followers of the ‘what works’ school of politics who can make the machine work, not culture-warriors whose response to complicated, serious problems is to blame the officials working to solve those problems. This is why Rishi Sunak and Matt Hancock are the men to watch in Cabinet right now. Will this help them politically? Are they the future of their party, the next Blair and Brown or Cameron and Osborne? I have no idea. Although people are indeed talking about that prospect, it seems far too early to be making bets on journeys across a political landscape that is still shifting. The fan-chart of possible political outcomes from here covers a spread of eventualities ranging from a decade in No 10 for Boris Johnson to prime minister Keir Starmer by Christmas.
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Matt Hancock also said officials had to scramble to source protective equipment, set up mass testing and contact tracing systems “from scratch” once the coronavirus pandemic broke out because the U.K.'s planning attitude was entirely “geared towards how to clear up after a disaster, not prevent it.” “The doctrine of the U.K. was to plan for the consequences of a disaster — can we buy enough body bags? Where are we going to bury the dead?” Hancock said. “Large-scale testing did not exist and large-scale contact tracing did not exist because it was assumed that as soon as there was community transmission, it wouldn’t be possible to stop the spread, and therefore, what’s the point in contact tracing?” he added. That assumption was “completely wrong” and a “colossal” failure, Hancock said. Hancock acknowledged that an official pandemic preparedness board paused its work in 2018 to 2019 because resources were moved away to focus instead on the threat of a “disorganized Brexit.” Britain’s government was consumed in 2019 with the possibility of crashing out of the EU without a deal on the departure terms in place. A bitterly divided Parliament rejected then-Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit plan three times. The U.K. eventually left the trade bloc in 2020. As health secretary, Hancock became one of the best-known politicians in Britain as he led efforts to halt the spread of the coronavirus before he was forced to quit in June 2021, when he was caught breaking social distancing rules with an aide. Pictures of him kissing the aide in government offices were splashed across front pages at the time. Hancock has previously faced criticism about the U.K.'s COVID testing measures and how authorities failed to manage the spread of the pandemic in care homes for the elderly. The U.K. had one of the highest COVID-19 death tolls in Europe, with the virus recorded as a cause of death for almost 227,000 people. Hancock said an emotional sorry Tuesday to all those who died and were affected. “I’m profoundly sorry for each death that has occurred. I also understand why, for some, it will be hard to take that apology from me,” he said. Earlier, Hancock was confronted by members of the group COVID Families for Justice who held up pictures of relatives who died in the pandemic as he arrived at the inquiry in central London. The wide-ranging inquiry, led by a retired judge, aims to investigate the U.K.’s preparedness for the coronavirus pandemic, how the government responded and what lessons can be learned for the future. Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who led the U.K. during the pandemic, agreed in late 2021 to hold the probe after heavy pressure from bereaved families.
8744	dbpedia	3	27	https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/tv/2022/11/matt-hancock-on-im-a-celebrity	en	The sick satisfaction of torturing Matt Hancock on I’m a Celebrity	https://dl6pgk4f88hky.cl…d.jpg?1724049637	https://dl6pgk4f88hky.cl…d.jpg?1724049637	[ "https://www.newstatesman.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/TNS_master_logo.svg", "https://www.newstatesman.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/TNS_avatar.svg", "https://dl6pgk4f88hky.cloudfront.net/2024/08/14/202433-ONLINE_England-undone_no-barcode-scaled.jpg", "https://dl6pgk4f88hky.cloudfront.net/2022/11/Hancock-scaled.jpg", "https://www.newstatesman.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/TNS_master_logo.svg", "https://dl6pgk4f88hky.cloudfront.net/2024/08/07/ScreenShot2024-08-07at13.08.53-464x348.png", "https://dl6pgk4f88hky.cloudfront.net/2024/07/23/shutterstock_2374266345Medium-464x348.jpeg", "https://dl6pgk4f88hky.cloudfront.net/2024/07/26/imresizer-1721999619305-464x348.jpg", "https://dl6pgk4f88hky.cloudfront.net/2024/08/15/loveis2-464x348.jpg", "https://dl6pgk4f88hky.cloudfront.net/2024/08/14/202431OasisFloydNOCC-464x348.jpg", "https://dl6pgk4f88hky.cloudfront.net/2024/08/14/202431-QA-N-A-CABROL-464x348.jpg", "https://www.newstatesman.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/Rachel-Cooke-177x177.png", "https://dl6pgk4f88hky.cloudfront.net/2024/08/14/202431-TV-180x135.jpg", "https://dl6pgk4f88hky.cloudfront.net/2024/08/13/202431-TV-180x135.jpg", "https://dl6pgk4f88hky.cloudfront.net/2024/08/15/loveis2-314x235.jpg", "https://dl6pgk4f88hky.cloudfront.net/2024/08/14/202431OasisFloydNOCC-314x235.jpg", "https://dl6pgk4f88hky.cloudfront.net/2024/08/14/202431-QA-N-A-CABROL-314x235.jpg", "https://dl6pgk4f88hky.cloudfront.net/2024/08/16/whereiseddavey-314x235.png", "https://dl6pgk4f88hky.cloudfront.net/2024/08/16/starmeraug2024-314x235.png", "https://dl6pgk4f88hky.cloudfront.net/2024/08/12/genzlonely-314x235.png" ]	[]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[ "Rachel Cooke" ]	2022-11-10T16:07:00+00:00	Not only did I feel like a bully, I enjoyed feeling like a bully. But is reality TV the right place to process our pandemic anger?	en	https://dl6pgk4f88hky.cl…on-1-150x150.png	New Statesman	https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/tv/2022/11/matt-hancock-on-im-a-celebrity	In the hours before Matt Hancock finally entered the I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! camp I felt a bit like Ralph in Lord of the Flies; conch in hand, there I was, loitering behind a rock (the screen of my laptop), waiting malevolently for Piggy. It was really very strange. I will probably never meet Hancock. I’m about as likely to use the I’m a Celebrity app (which lets you vote for who should do which challenge) as I am to appear on the show itself. Yet not only did I feel like a bully, I was enjoying feeling like a bully. Between assignments my twisted daydreams involved extreme gunge, outsize rats and a grown man – a former cabinet minister! – crying hot tears of fear and self-pity in an outdoor lav. I think I must be a horrible person. But we’ll get to the satisfactions (or not) of watching Hancock bathe in a stinking swamp of God knows what. First impressions. They’re not good, are they? The synthetic laughter. The cocksure attitude feebly disguised as everyday modesty. The instant attempt to recruit the other dubious late arrival, the comedian Seann Walsh, to his cabal. We see right through him, don’t we? And he’s so talky! The CCTV footage of Hancock with his hand on the backside of his then aide, Gina Coladangelo – footage that led, during the pandemic, to him losing his job – was silent, for which, at the time, I think we were all grateful. But thanks to Beastly Burrows, his first challenge on the show, we now know exactly what it must be like to sleep with him: “I’m over here, and I’ve got my hand in this… yeah, that’s my foot… can you feel my foot? Can you put your hand in this box? No, that was my arm…” Ugh. I bet he’s a running-commentary merchant dans le boudoir. He did quite well in Beastly Burrows, in which he had to find meal-winning stars in a series of pitch black tunnels; he didn’t flinch at the puddles of slurry, at the rodents and the insects and the various other unmentionables (though he and Walsh only retrieved six stars). But perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised he is well-prepared. The former health secretary began his political career as an adviser to David Cameron and George Osborne; snakes are nothing to him. As for bullying, we all saw Rishi Sunak snub him on the day the former was made leader of the Conservative Party. Hancock’s smile dimmed only for a nano-second. Add to this his private education and his years in Westminster, and it’s probably fair to say that the jungle will be a relative cinch for him. Facing his constituents back in West Suffolk is going to be much worse. They have pitchforks there. And prize bulls. Hancock and Walsh were at first required to remain at Mole HQ, a mud hut with a computer screen inside it. Beside its door was a large plastic mole with a red nose that lit up whenever instructions were about to appear on this screen. I think this mole may, in its way, be more humiliating than the kangaroo anuses etc. It seems, somehow, to personify Hancock’s hubris, not to mention his blindness, which manifests as a delusional tone-deafness. But then again, the plastic mole can’t speak, unlike Hancock’s camp mates – and already there are signs they may turn nasty. Anyway, like Bill and Ben the flowerpot men, Hancock and Walsh finally left Mole HQ, emerging from two holes in the earth to greet their new colleagues, cue a certain amount of shock at the former’s appearance. No one could believe it, and Boy George, who’s big into karma, was soon clutching his pearls. “I’m not good at hiding my feelings,” he said. I once interviewed Boy George. I found him quite alarming. I expect the Buddhist chants may soon give way to something a bit more, er, authentic. Hancock’s camp mates should be careful, though, and now we return to the question of penance: of whether Hancock will pay it, and if he does, whether it will do the rest of us any good. The high ground is a relative concept here. Charlene White, the ITV presenter, thought she was being so clever when she asked Hancock – “I’m a journalist!” she said – why he was in the jungle. But while it’s true that he should be working for his constituents, her smugness was no more edifying than his half-truths, or not to me. I mean, why is she there? Hancock muttered something about wanting to be seen as a human being, but however shabby and platitudinous this sounded, I hardly think White, who anchors the eternally gruesome Loose Women, is there for any better reason. In the end, aren’t they all in it for the money and the cheap fame? As for Boy George and his tears – his mother was in hospital during the pandemic, and he had not been able to visit her – they alarm me a bit, creepy crawly jokes aside. More than 200,000 people have now died and had Covid-19 on their death certificate. Their friends and relatives are still grieving; the country is still getting over the pandemic’s financial effects, a recovery now painfully delayed by the cost-of-living crisis and a war in Europe. I’m not sure that booking Hancock will ultimately prove to be a good move for ITV. The country’s suffering, for which he must bear some responsibility, is far beyond the purview of reality TV, which is what passes for light entertainment these days. And how will Ant and Dec play it? Whatever they say about Hancock’s bum crack and the cockroaches that are stuck in it – however funny they are – this isn’t what we want or need. Who, of all those who were, or are, in charge, will ever pay a price for what has happened? Hancock has been chosen for the next challenge – I bet his estranged wife was on that app like an electrified ferret – but even the Tentacles of Terror (whatever they turn out to be) are utterly inadequate to the purpose here.
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News	https://news.sky.com/story/the-mps-who-have-announced-they-are-standing-down-at-the-next-general-election-12758551	Even though the next general election may not be until January 2025 at the latest, a number of MPs have already announced they will not be standing the next time the country goes to the polls. Those who have announced their intention to leave parliament in the next few years range from the longest standing female MP, Labour's Harriet Harman, to one of those only elected at the last election in 2019, Conservative MP Dehenna Davison. Read more: How does the number of MPs stepping down compare to previous years? Here is a full list of all the MPs standing down at the next election: James Heappey (CON) Armed forces minister James Heappey announced he will leave his government post and stand down at the next election. The MP for the Wells constituency in Somerset decided to leave parliament because of personal reasons, a source close to him told Sky News. The announcement came amid growing disquiet among Conservative MPs and military insiders that the budget failed to announce new funding for the armed forces. However, a source close to Mr Heappey said while "of course he thinks there should be more money - it's not why he's resigning". Brandon Lewis (CON) Brandon Lewis, the former Northern Ireland secretary, also confirmed he will stand down as an MP at the next general election. Mr Lewis, also a former chairman of the Conservative Party, said he was proud of "the small part I have been able to play in public life". Theresa May (CON) The former prime minister has joined the scores of Tory MPs standing down at the next election after 27 years of representing her constituency of Maidenhead. In an exclusive statement to her local newspaper, Mrs May said she had taken the "difficult decision" to quit the Commons, saying causes including her Global Commission on Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking "have been taking an increasing amount of my time". The 67-year-old also pledged her support to Rishi Sunak and said she believed the Conservatives could win the next election. "As I pass the baton on I will be working with my successor to secure a Conservative victory in Maidenhead. I remain committed to supporting Rishi Sunak and the government and believe that the Conservatives can win the election," she said. "I have always said there is no greater privilege than being an MP; I have served as home secretary and prime minister but none of that would have been possible without the people of Maidenhead and the constituency which I have been proud to call my home." Kwasi Kwarteng (CON) Kwasi Kwarteng, the former chancellor and Conservative MP for Spelthorne, has announced he will stand down at the next election. An MP since 2010, he was appointed chancellor by Liz Truss during her brief tenure as prime minister, but was later sacked after his mini-budget caused turmoil in the markets and forced her to resign. Prior to serving as chancellor, Mr Kwarteng served in roles including Brexit minister and was business minister before he was promoted to the Cabinet as business secretary by Boris Johnson in January 2021. Shortly after the Truss administration collapsed, Mr Kwarteng admitted he and Ms Truss "blew it" and got "carried away" with bringing in sweeping economic reforms. Writing on social media, Mr Kwarteng said: "I informed my association chair of my decision not to stand at the next general election. "It has been an honour to serve the residents of Spelthorne since 2010, and I shall continue to do so for the remainder of my time in parliament." Bob Neill (CON) Sir Bob Neill first entered parliament when he was elected in the 2006 Bromley and Chislehurst by-election. Now a senior backbencher, Sir Bob has also held government posts in the past, including as a local government minister during the coalition years. He has also chaired a number of parliamentary committees and currently leads the justice select committee. In a post on X, Sir Bob said he was standing down to spend more time with his family. "I am grateful for the huge privilege to be MP for Bromley & Chislehurst, but there comes a time to put family first," he wrote. "But I shall look for other ways to champion the causes I have fought for in parliament: the rule of law, stroke care, opera and the arts, Gibraltar and more." Mike Freer (CON) Conservative minister Mike Freer announced he was quitting parliament after more than a decade, telling Sky News: "There comes a point when you just have to say, enough." Mr Freer, who has served as the MP for Finchley and Golders Green since 2010, said an arson attack on his constituency office in north London on Christmas Eve was "the last straw". It was the latest in a string of incidents - including what he described as a "narrow miss" after the killer of his colleague, Southend MP Sir David Amess, had also watched his Finchley office before killing Sir David at a constituency surgery. Mr Freer told Politics Hub With Sophy Ridge he had reached the moment where "the level of risk becomes too much". He also said the impact on his family "when they see you going out to do some part of your job in a stab vest" was "really not fair on them". The Tory MP also called for action from social media companies to "get to the root cause" of the problem, saying people are "being given the green light to feel they have got open season on their public servants" through the platforms. Oliver Heald (CON) Oliver Heald, an MP for 32 years, will not stand in the election this year, saying he wants to spend more time with his grandchildren. "It has been a great privilege to serve the people of this wonderful constituency since 1992 and to have won the confidence of the majority of electors in eight general elections. I shall continue to work hard for the people of North East Hertfordshire until the election and I shall continue to support the Conservative cause and the prime minister," he said. Mr Heald served as pensions minister under John Major, as solicitor general under David Cameron and as justice minister under Theresa May. Sir James Duddridge (CON) Sir James Duddridge, a former minister and the MP for Rochford and South East, said it had been an "honour" to serve as the constituency's MPs but that he would not stand at the next election. In a letter to his local association, he wrote: "I have notified my Association Chairman of my decision not to stand at the next General Election. It has been an honour to serve as the MP for Rochford and Southend East since 2005. I will continue to serve my constituents, and I look forward to new challenges." Bob Stewart (IND, former CON) The 74-year-old former army officer, who surrendered the Conservative whip after he was convicted of racial abuse, said it was "time for a new candidate" for his seat, which is expected to change at the next election. Mr Stewart, who has represented the London constituency of Beckenham since 2010, revealed his decision in a brief statement on X which did not refer to his recent court case. Mr Stewart said in the post: "Serving Beckenham as its member of parliament for 13 years has been an honour and privilege. "I am incredibly grateful to everyone who has given me this opportunity. "However, it is time for a new candidate, so I will not be seeking re-election at the next election." The geographical boundary of the Beckenham constituency is expected to become Beckenham and Penge at the next general election following a review aimed at equalising population sizes across the seats at Westminster. Earlier this month, Mr Stewart was found guilty at London's Westminster Magistrates' Court of racially abusing an activist by telling him to "go back to Bahrain". Nick Gibb (CON) Long-serving schools minister Nick Gibb will take up a diplomatic role after the election after serving as the MP for Bognor Regis and Littlehampton for 26 years. Mr Gibb, who served as schools minister under David Cameron, Theresa May, Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak, said he remained an "enthusiastic supporter of the prime minister's leadership". "I am proud that over my 10 years as a minister standards in schools have risen. England is 4th in the world in reading as a result of the phonics reforms and we are rising internationally for maths and English. We have transformed the curriculum so that it is knowledge rich," he said. John Baron (CON) John Baron will stand down at the next election after serving as an MP since 2001. Mr Baron was first elected as the MP for Billericay & District from 2001 and then Basildon & Billericay from 2010. He said that although he believed Rishi Sunak would win the next election due to his "competence and compassion", he had decided the "time has come for me to move on". "It has been a great honour and privilege to serve my constituents, and I thank all for their support and kindness over the years. I have been lucky to make many friends." Jamie Wallis (CON) The MP for Bridgend, who came out as transgender in March 2022, said he was seeking a new seat outside Wales - but that he was doing so "with a sense of humour". In July that year, Mr Wallis was disqualified from driving for six months and fined £2,500 after being found guilty of three traffic offences. In an interview with Sky News' Sophy Ridge in 2022, Mr Wallis - who still prefers the pronouns he and him - revealed he had felt this way for a "very long time". "I have gender dysphoria... that is the medical diagnosis that is required for a legal change of gender but it is also the condition that describes that lack of reconciliation between what you look like and what your body says and how you feel on the inside." Lisa Cameron (CON) Formerly of the SNP, Lisa Cameron defected to the Tories last year over what she called the "toxic and bullying SNP Westminster group". Dr Cameron said she and her family have been forced into hiding after receiving a barrage of threatening messages, including one in which someone said: "I hope you burn". The MP for East Kilbride, Strathaven & Lesmahagow, a former NHS psychologist, criticised her treatment by the SNP and its leadership after she spoke out about her colleague, Patrick Grady. Mr Grady was suspended from the House of Commons for two days last year after he was found to have made an "unwanted sexual advance" to a member of party staff in 2016. Dr Cameron defied calls for a by-election to be held in her seat and she she would remain the MP until the next election. Chris Grayling (CON) Former transport secretary Chris Grayling recently announced he will not defend Epsom and Ewell at the next election - the seat he has held since 2001. The MP said he had been successfully treated for prostate cancer earlier this year and the diagnosis had led him to decide it was "time for change". Mr Grayling served in both David Cameron and Theresa May's governments, most recently as transport secretary from 2016 to 2019 - where he earned the nickname "failing Grayling" after presiding over a series of mishaps. Alok Sharma (CON) Conservative former cabinet member Sir Alok Sharma is also standing down from parliament. Sir Alok, who chaired the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, has been critical of Rishi Sunak after he watered down the government's climate commitments. Sir Alok said "it'd be incredibly damaging for business confidence, for inward investment, if the political consensus that we have forged in our country on the environment and climate action is fractured. "And, frankly, I really do not believe that it's going to help any political party electorally which chooses to go down this path." In his letter to his constituency announcing his decision, the MP for Reading West said he will still "champion in parliament the causes I care deeply about, especially climate action". Sir Alok's seat, which he has held since 2010, is being changed as part of the review of constituency boundaries before the next election, expected in 2024. It will be renamed Reading West and Mid Berkshire. Ben Wallace (CON) Ben Wallace was appointed defence secretary by Boris Johnson when he became prime minister in 2019. He stayed in the job when he was ousted from Downing Street and remained in-post during the short tenure of Liz Truss - and that of Rishi Sunak. The announcement he is stepping down at the next election came after rumours he had tried and failed to become the next leader of NATO. "I went into politics in the Scottish parliament in 1999. That's 24 years. I've spent well over seven years with three phones by my bed," he told The Times. It also came after he told a press conference that the UK was not an "Amazon" delivery service for weapons to Ukraine - in contrast to his long-standing support of their fight against Russia. Dominic Raab (CON) Former justice secretary and deputy prime minister Dominic Raab will stand down at the next election after serving as an MP since 2010. His decision comes a month after he quit Rishi Sunak's cabinet over claims he bullied civil servants. Mr Raab is currently the Conservative MP for Esher and Walton in Surrey, where a slender majority of 2,743 has made his seat a key target for the Lib Dems. Mr Raab has "become increasingly concerned" about the pressure the job has placed on his young family, according to a letter explaining his decision seen by The Telegraph. Last month, a bullying probe into the former cabinet minister's behaviour concluded he acted in an "intimidating way" and was "unreasonably and persistently aggressive" in meetings. Sajid Javid (CON) Sajid Javid has written to the chair of his constituency party in Bromsgrove to say he will not stand at the next general election. He was unsuccessful in his bid for Conservative Party leadership in 2022 and had previously held a number of positions in cabinet, including chancellor, health secretary and business secretary. "It has been a decision I have wrestled with for some time, but I have ultimately concluded not to stand again for what would be my fifth election," he said. "Being the local MP and serving in Government has been the privilege of my life and I am immensely grateful for the opportunity to serve. I always sought to make decisions in the national interest, and in line with my values, and I can only hope my best was sufficient." Bromsgrove is considered a safe Conservative seat, with Mr Javid winning a majority of just over 23,000 votes in the 2019 general election. Matt Hancock (IND, former CON) The former health secretary wrote to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on 7 December to let him know he would not be standing for the Conservatives at the next election. He was suspended from the party in November after he announced he was going on reality TV show I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here but said in his letter the chief whip "made clear" last week he would restore the whip "in due course, but that is now not necessary". Revealing he will not be standing 10 days after finishing third on I'm A Celeb, Mr Hancock said: "There was a time when I thought the only way to influence the public debate was in parliament, but I've realised there's far more to it than that. "For my part, I want to do things differently. I have discovered a whole new world of possibilities which I am excited to explore - new ways for me to communicate with people of all ages and from all backgrounds." The 44-year-old MP, who has a 23,194 majority in his West Suffolk constituency, said he wants to champion issues "dear to my heart", including better support for dyslexic children. Nadine Dorries (CON) In announcing her intention to stand down at the next general election, former culture secretary Ms Dorries blamed the "sheer stupidity" of her colleagues who "got rid of Boris Johnson". The Conservative MP for Mid Bedfordshire fought back tears as she delivered the news on her TalkTV show, saying the decision had followed "much soul-searching". Ms Dorries is a staunch supporter of the former PM and has not hidden her views on Rishi Sunak since he became prime minister. She said: "Those MPs who drank the Kool-Aid and got rid of Boris Johnson are already asking themselves the question: who next? "And I'm afraid that the lack of cohesion, the infighting and occasionally the sheer stupidity from those who think we could remove a sitting prime minister, who secured a higher percentage of the vote share than Tony Blair did in 1997, just three short years ago... "That [they think] they could do that and the public would let us get away with it, I'm afraid it's this behaviour that I now just have to remove myself from." As she began welling up, she added: "And so despite it being a job that I've loved for every year I've done it, I'm now off. Oh gosh, I've just said it out loud, there's no going back now." George Eustice (CON) Former environment secretary George Eustice said it was a "difficult decision", but after 15 years as the MP for Camborne and Redruth, he wants to take the opportunity to have another career outside politics. The senior Tory was secretary of state under Boris Johnson, from February 2020 until September 2022. Announcing his decision, Mr Eustice said: "By the time of the next election, I will have been in politics for 25 years, including almost 15 years as a member of parliament. "I will also be 53 and I want the opportunity to do a final career outside politics so have decided not to seek re-election. This has been a difficult decision for me." A recent finding by UK Polling Report predicted Mr Eustice is set to lose his seat to Labour with a 17.3% drop in votes. Sir Graham Brady (CON) Sir Graham Brady, chairman of the influential 1922 committee of backbench Tory MPs, announced in March that he would be bringing his chapter as a politician "to a close" while still "young enough to pursue other opportunities and interests". The 55-year-old has represented Altrincham and Sale West for the past 26 years and has been the chairman of the 1922 Committee since 2010, bar a brief period in 2019. But it is only in the last few years he has become something of a household name - with his visits to Number 10 seen as spelling the end for recent prime ministers. Chris Pincher (IND, former CON) Chris Pincher, the MP whose conduct kickstarted the end of Boris Johnson's premiership, has told Conservative officials he won't be standing at the next election. Mr Pincher, who has been the MP for Tamworth since 2010, resigned from his job as deputy chief whip in July last year following allegations about his conduct. Julian Knight (IND, former CON) Julian Knight, 51, was suspended as a Conservative after a serious sexual assault allegation was made against him. The MP for Solihull since 2015 has always maintained his innocence and on 2 April, the Metropolitan Police dropped the investigation without questioning Mr Knight. But he remained suspended from the Tory party as the chief whip, who organises the party's MPs, said "further complaints" had been made against him. He has said he will not try to get the Tory whip restored and will remain as an independent until the next election, when he will stand down. Dehenna Davison (CON) Ms Davison, who was elected as Bishop Auckland's first-ever Conservative MP in 2019 under former prime minister Boris Johnson, has announced she intends to stand down at the next election. The Levelling Up minister, regarded by many as a rising star in the Tory Party, said she now wanted to devote more time to "life outside politics - mainly to my family". "I've dedicated the vast majority of my time to politics, and to help make people's lives better. But to be frank, it has meant I haven't had anything like a normal life for a 20-something," she said. Ms Davison, 29, was thought to have represented a new style of Conservatism which demolished large swathes of Labour's "Red Wall" of seats in the snap election three years ago. William Wragg (CON) Senior Tory Mr Wragg has also confirmed he will not run again. He is the vice-chairman of the influential 1922 Committee of Tory backbenchers and has held the Hazel Grove constituency in Greater Manchester since 2015. He took the seat from the Liberal Democrats and, in doing so, became the first Conservative MP to represent the constituency since 1997. Mr Wragg had been one of the Conservative MPs most critical of former PM Mr Johnson and also publicly demanded Liz Truss quit as leader in October following her disastrous mini-budget. The MP for Hazel Grove took a short break earlier this year to recover from depression. Chris Skidmore (CON) Former universities minister Mr Skidmore has announced he will be standing down at the next election. His Kingswood constituency will cease to exist when the new parliamentary boundary changes come into force. Mr Skidmore said in a statement that "there has been no greater honour in my life" than to represent the constituency, in southwest England. Mr Skidmore signed the UK's net zero by 2050 commitment into law in 2019 when serving as a minister in former PM Theresa May's government. Sir Gary Streeter (CON) The long-standing South West Devon MP will also not seek re-election. Sir Gary has held his seat since its conception in 1997 and prior to that he was the MP for Plymouth Sutton for five years. In a statement, the Conservative MP said: "It has been an honour and privilege to represent this consistency for over 30 years, but the time has come for me to step back and let a younger person take over." Sir Gary, who was knighted in 2018, said he had "great confidence that under Rishi Sunak's leadership our country will recover strongly from recent challenges". Chloe Smith (CON) The former work and pensions secretary is another Conservative MP who has announced she will not continue her parliamentary career. Ms Smith, who served in Liz Truss's cabinet during her brief tenure in Number 10, has held the Norwich North seat since 2009. When elected, she became the youngest MP aged just 27. She has also held ministerial jobs across several departments including the Treasury and Northern Ireland Office. Douglas Ross (CON) The leader of the Scottish Conservatives has said he will not stand again at Westminster in order to focus on Holyrood as an MSP. He has served as Member of Parliament for Moray since 2017. Sir Charles Walker (CON) Broxbourne MP Sir Charles has announced he will not seek re-election after more than 15 years in Westminster. He has served as chair of the procedure committee and was knighted in 2019 for "political and public service". On his return to the backbenches, Sir Charles became a vocal opponent of COVID lockdown restrictions, including an infamous speech where he promised to walk around London with a pint of milk in protest against an extension to emergency powers being extended in March 2021. Nigel Adams (CON) Conservative MP Nigel Adams has confirmed he will step down at the next general election. Mr Adams, a former minister, was first elected as Selby and Ainsty's MP in 2010 and has successfully defended the seat three times. In a statement, Mr Adams said: "By then [the next election] I will have served 14 years as an MP which I think is a decent innings in public life." Crispin Blunt (CON) The Conservative MP for Reigate marked his 25th year in parliament by confirming he will stand aside when the country next goes to the polls. Earlier this year, Mr Blunt apologised for "significant upset and concern" caused by his defence of fellow MP Imran Ahmad Khan following his conviction for sexually assaulting a teenage boy in 2008. He is also the uncle of actress Emily Blunt. Sir Mike Penning (CON) The Conservative MP for Hemel Hempstead has confirmed he wishes to retire at the next election, having reached the age of 64. He described it as "one of the most difficult decisions of my life". Adam Afriyie (CON) The Windsor Conservative Association (WCA) announced in the summer that Mr Afriyie had decided to step down. The former trade envoy said with Brexit "concluded" it was the "right time" to relinquish his post. Andrew Percy (CON) The MP for Brigg and Goole is another to have confirmed he does not intend to continue in his role. Mr Percy's constituency would be abolished by the parliamentary boundary review proposals. He was formerly the Northern Powerhouse minister. Mark Pawsey (CON) The MP for Rugby and Bulkington since 2010 has said he will not seek re-election at the next general election. In a statement to his local Conservative association, Mr Pawsey said he had come to the decision "after much consideration". "I am sure that a new Conservative candidate will go on to win in Rugby whenever the election is called," he added. Edward Timpson (CON) The MP for Eddisbury has confirmed he plans to stand down at the next election "to return in part to legal practice, but also advocacy roles for vulnerable children and families". Mr Timpson, the son of Sir John Timpson - the chairman and owner of the Timpson chain of shoe repair and key-cutting shops - said he is proud to have been the longest-serving minister for children and families during his time as an MP. Responding to Mr Timpson's announcement, former PM David Cameron said: "Westminster needs to retain the skills and advice of specialists like Edward, and the Conservative Party does too-particularly in an area where we are not famed for being as strong as he is. I know we won't have seen the last of him." Jo Gideon (CON) Conservative MP Ms Gideon has announced she will not contest her Stoke-on-Trent Central seat when the country goes to the polls. Elected in 2019, Ms Gideon has a very small majority of just 670. Releasing a statement confirming the move, Ms Gideon, 70, said: "I have not come to this decision lightly." Sir Paul Beresford (CON) The MP for Mole Valley, who will be 77 this year, has announced he intends to retire at the next general election. He confirmed his decision in an email to constituents, saying: "In truth, I did give serious thought to contesting the 2024 election and serving in one more Parliament and the decision to step back has not been easy. "With this said, I am very much of the view that anyone elected as an MP owes it to their constituents to throw themselves entirely into the role - and when you find yourself beginning to wonder what life without midnight sittings of the House and a dairy built around the whims of the Whips' Office might look like - it is probably time to step back." Sir Paul holds a 12,041 majority at present, but his Mole Valley constituency is due to be split before the next election - with just 60% of the current constituency making up the bulk of the new Dorking and Horley seat. Stephen McPartland (CON) The Conservative MP for Stevenage has said that "after much soul searching" he will not stand for re-election the next time the country goes to the polls. Writing a letter to the PM informing him of his decision, Mr McPartland, who has been an MP since 2010, said: "I will always support ⁦the Conservatives as the party that gave a working class kid from Brixton the opportunity to become prime minister." Mr McPartland is known for being independently minded, probing the government hard on cladding a recently being the only Conservative to vote against the Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill. Stuart Anderson (CON) The MP for Wolverhampton South West only took the seat from Labour in 2019, but has confirmed he will not seek re-election due to "personal and family reasons". In a statement, he said it had been "the greatest honour of my life" and he would continue to serve his constituents until the next election "with pride". Mr Anderson, who currently serves as a Treasury whip and only has a majority of 1,661, said his local group of Conservatives "will continue to build" on the "strong track record" he will leave behind. Nicola Richards (CON) Ms Richards, who was elected in West Bromwich East in 2019, has announced she will not be standing in the new constituency of West Bromwich due to changes in her "domestic circumstances". Henry Smith (CON) The Crawley MP has held the seat since 2010, having previously been a councillor in the area. But he confirmed he would be leaving politics behind him at the next general election, saying it was "time for a new generation". A member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, Mr Smith said in a statement that he was "proud to lead the Leave EU campaign" in his constituency, as well as supporting the area through COVID, and raising awareness of blood cancer. "I will continue to campaign for lower taxation, secure borders, environmental protection, our security and a dynamic economy," he added. Sir Robert Goodwill (CON) Sir Robert Goodwill, who has represented Scarborough and Whitby since 2005, said his decision to step down was because of his age and family interests, according to Scarborough News. The 6-year-old served as a minister in both David Cameron and Theresa May's governments and is currently the chairman of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Select Committee. Robin Walker (CON) The Worcester MP has held the seat since 2010 and served as an education minister and Northern Ireland minister in Boris Johnson's government. He said he was stepping down because he needed to prioritise his family. Pauline Latham (CON) Mid Derbyshire MP Pauline Latham, who won the seat in 2010, said she thought "long and hard" about her decision to stand down as an MP at the next election, but she now wants to dedicate herself to "certain other projects". Gordon Henderson (CON) The Sittingbourne and Sheppey MP Gordon Henderson said he will stand down at the next election as "by then I will be 76 years old and will have been working full time for 60 years". "I believe the time is right for me to retire and let a younger person pick up the reins," he said. Craig Whittaker (CON) The Calder Valley MP, who has represented the constituency for 12 years, said he wanted to spend "more quality time" with his family. John Howell (CON) John Howell, 67, has served as MP for Henley-on-Thames for 15 years, said he did not want to remain an MP due to his age and other interests. Matthew Offord (CON) The Hendon MP said his last 13 years in the job has required "great sacrifices in my personal and professional lives, and I have concluded that the next general election is the time for me to leave the baton for someone else to take up". Steve Brine (CON) The current chair of the Health and Social Care Select Committee, Mr Brine, said he would be seeking to start a "new chapter" in his life following 13 years representing Winchester in Hampshire - where he has a small majority of just 985. He said after the next national ballot, he would "pursue some of the issues I care about - in health and perhaps elsewhere". But much of the letter focused on wanting to spend more time with his children. Ian Blackford (SNP) The former Westminster leader for the SNP has announced he will be stepping down at the next election following "a period of reflection" after losing his senior role. He told Sky News in a broadcast exclusive that going forward, he would be working on a paper on Scotland's industrial future and continuing as his party's business ambassador. Harriet Harman (LAB) Labour's Ms Harman, the longest continuous serving female MP in the Commons, has announced that she will not be standing for the party at the next election. Ms Harman, who has represented the south London constituency of Camberwell and Peckham since 1982, revealed the news on Twitter. Alex Cunningham (LAB) The Stockton North MP has announced that he is to stand down after 12 years. "After more than 30 years in public life as first a local councillor, I've decided the next general election would be the right time for me to retire and hopefully do many of the other things I've never been able to fit in." Dame Margaret Hodge (LAB) Veteran Labour MP Dame Margaret Hodge is another who will step aside. Dame Margaret, who has been the MP for Barking in east London since 1994, described the decision as "really tough". During her time in politics, she has served as a minister in several departments, including education, work and pensions, and culture, and chaired the influential Public Accounts Committee. More recently, Dame Margaret was a prominent critic of former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and accused him of denying the problem of antisemitism within the Labour Party. Barry Sheerman (LAB) One of the country's longest-serving MPs, Mr Sheerman will also be leaving parliament. The MP for Huddersfield since 1979 said standing down at the next election was the right time for him and the party. Mr Sheerman, who has been a shadow work and pensions and home affairs minister, added he was proud of the work he had done over the past 42 years, but was looking forward to spending more time with his family. He is the longest-serving Labour MP and the second-longest continuous-serving MP in the House of Commons after Father of the House Sir Peter Bottomley. Alan Whitehead (LAB) At the start of the year, Mr Whitehead confirmed he will not contest his constituency of Southampton Test again. Mr Whitehead has held the constituency for Labour since 1997. Ben Bradshaw (LAB) The Labour MP for Exeter said that after 25 years in the role it is time to "hand on the baton" He described himself as being "emotional" about the decision, but told BBC Radio Devon: "If I stood again I could be pushing 70 by the end of the next parliament and I never really wanted to go on that long." Wayne David (LAB) The Labour MP for Caerphilly has announced that "with some sadness" he will be stepping down. In a statement, he said: "The reason is quite simple - I will be 65 in a few months' time and if I were re-elected at the next election, I could still be an MP at the age of 70. "While some may disagree, I think at that age I would not be able to represent my constituents as effectively as I would like. It is time to make way for a younger person." Paul Blomfield (LAB) Mr Blomfield has been Sheffield Central's MP since 2010 and announced he would be stepping away from parliament in February. In 2016, he was appointed as Labour's shadow Brexit minister, and he was a member of the shadow cabinet until December 2020 when the UK officially left the EU. Dame Rosie Winterton (LAB) The Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons said it had been an "honour" to have served as MP of Doncaster Central since 1997 when she announced she would not contest the next election. Dame Rosie, who was known as a well-respected Labour Party disciplinarian, held positions within the government under the leadership of former prime ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. Dame Margaret Beckett (LAB) Britain's first female foreign secretary is to retire after nearly four decades as MP for Derby South. Dame Margaret, who is also Britain's longest-serving female MP, was first elected to the House of Commons to represent Lincoln in 1974 when just 27 MPs were women. Jon Cruddas (LAB) Long-term Dagenham and Rainham MP Mr Cruddas has also announced he is to step down. The Labour MP has held the seat for 21 years, a position he has described as "the greatest honour of my life". Colleen Fletcher (LAB) Announcing her intention to stand down, Ms Fletcher, who has held the Coventry North East seat for Labour since 2015, said it was time to move on and pursue new challenges. Sir George Howarth (LAB) After more than 30 years representing the seat of Knowsley, Sir George Howarth - a former junior minister in the Northern Ireland and Home Office under Tony Blair - said it was "the right time for a new candidate" to represent the area he grew up in. Hywel Williams (PLAID CYMRU) The MP for Arfon has announced he is standing down at the next general election "after much thought and discussion with my family". At the 2017 general election Mr Williams held Arfon with a majority of just 92 votes, making it the most marginal seat in Wales. In the following election, in 2019, he extended Plaid's majority to 2,781. However, the constituency will disappear under proposals to cut the number of Welsh MPs from 40 to 32.
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Experts say the party's next steps aren't clear.	en	/news-assets/favicon-32x32.png		https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07-06/uk-election-result-leaves-uk-conservative-party-in-tatters/104033260	Liz Truss had been British prime minister for less than two months when she was asked in parliament why she was still there. "I'm a fighter, not a quitter," she said. The next day, she resigned. It was October 2022, and the Conservative Party — which had been in power for 12 years — were feasting on themselves. Truss's tenure, which lasted just 49 days, was a disaster. "But she didn't come out of nowhere," says veteran political journalist and broadcaster Ian Dunt. If they were lost two years ago, the Conservatives — known colloquially as the Tories — are now on life support. The party suffered a crushing defeat, losing 250 seats compared to 2019. They will sit in opposition with just 121 seats, while Labour commands a huge majority with 412. Plenty of high profile MPs, including Liz Truss, lost their seats. "I think we need to keep in mind the Conservative Party is the single most successful political organisation in the history of Western civilisation," Dunt says. "It tends to mock anyone's predictions as to its demise. However, many things have changed." Opinion polls in the lead-up to Thursday's election indicated the party was less popular than Labour among voters in every age group, except for over 70s. Those numbers were reflected in the election, as the party's overall share of the vote was decimated, falling almost 20 per cent to 23.7 per cent. The big winners of that move away from the Conservatives was Reform UK, led by populist leader Nigel Farrage. Reform captured almost 15 per cent of the national vote, and secured five seats, posing a serious threat to the Conservatives moving forward. During 14 turbulent years in office, the Conservatives endured chaos like the UK has never seen. Some of it was out of their control. Much was of their own making. Loading... A broad church and changing congregation While Truss is not solely responsible for the Tories' electoral wipe-out, she represents fundamental changes in the party. When the Conservatives came to power in 2010, then-prime minister David Cameron promised some tough love in the form of fiscal austerity to repair a black hole in Britain's budget. By the time Truss took over — four leaders later — she was blaming something she referred to as "the deep state" for blocking her economic blueprint. While the rhetoric from its leaders mutated, so too did the party's voting base. "Traditionally, the Conservatives have been the party of the middle class, the kind of relatively affluent parts of Britain, and also of the more educated parts of Britain," says Jonathan Mellon, a co-director at the British Election Study. That demographic was true at the time they first formed government. It's very different now. When the UK decided to leave the European Union, after a closely fought 2016 referendum, it put the Conservatives in a bind. Of the 30 constituencies with the fewest university graduates, 28 voted to leave. The country's poorest households, with annual incomes of less than £20,000 ($38,800 at the time of the referendum), were much more likely to support Brexit. "The Brexit period of politics was very unusual in how much volatility there was and how much it shook off the standard alignments of British politics," Mellon says. The UK turning its back on the EU cost the Tories two prime ministers. Cameron, who campaigned against leaving, resigned shortly after the referendum. His successor Theresa May — who won a party leadership ballot unopposed — eventually walked too, after the parliament repeatedly voted down her proposed deals to manage the exit from the EU. The high-profile former London mayor Boris Johnson became PM in July 2019 — the culmination of a selection process that lasted more than six weeks. Without a parliamentary majority — the Tories were, by this time, governing in minority — the ardent Brexiteer couldn't get his plans through either, and called a snap general election for December 2019. His landslide victory delivered a majority of 80 seats and again underscored the shifting voter demographics leaving the EU gave the Tories. "We have these Tory MPs in places in the north of England that have never elected the Conservative MP before," says Sophie Stowers, from the academic think tank UK in a Changing Europe. "That's a very different type of politician. You had such a broad church, it was always going to be difficult to maintain." COVID controversies Despite the chaos surrounding Brexit, the Tories popularity remained high after a decade in government. While Johnson was criticised for his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic — which brought multiple lockdowns and put a catastrophic strain on Britain's health system — polls showed he remained the preferred prime minister over newly minted Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer. But everything changed. Reports multiple Tory staffers and MPs had been flouting social-distancing restrictions and gathering at the prime minister's official residence, among other locations, first emerged in November 2021. The public was enraged about what the press dubbed Partygate. "Everyone else was being asked to stay at home and isolate and stay six feet apart," says Stowers. "That's when this downfall in the polls really started for the government. "It's just been followed by one scandal after another." The UK's most senior civil servant, Simon Case, stepped down from his role of leading a probe into the illegal gatherings after claims surfaced he had hosted one. Health secretary Matt Hancock resigned as a minister after it was revealed he breached social-distancing rules by kissing an aide. He was eventually suspended as an MP for joining the cast of a reality TV show. Johnson was personally implicated in Partygate, too. Police eventually issued more than 120 penalty notices. "It breaks this fundamental contract between the governed and the government." Johnson, who despite an immensely privileged upbringing had managed to style himself as a scruffy and relatable larrikin, never recovered. Loading... After Partygate, many Brits lost patience with their eccentric, gaff-prone PM. Labour pulled ahead in the polls. By the summer of 2022, things had become untenable. He resigned in July. Still, if Johnson was returned as leader, he would probably be more popular than the subsequent two Tory prime ministers. Truss's turbulent tenure Liz Truss won a leadership ballot in early September and in her first address as PM, promised a "bold plan" for Britain's economy. It was unveiled later that month. "In the space of half an hour on a Friday morning she managed to shred any remaining reputation the Conservatives had for fiscal credibility," says Jill Rutter, a senior fellow at the Institute for Government, who's previously worked for the country's treasury. The blueprint was supposed to stimulate growth and contained a suite of tax cuts, including abolishing the highest bracket. International fiscal authorities were dismayed, as was the UK's central bank. US President Joe Biden said it was a "mistake". The pound crashed. Despite walking back the proposed policies over subsequent weeks, Truss's "mini-budget" had done irreparable damage. A newspaper began a continuous online video of an iceberg lettuce on a table next to a photo of the besieged PM, asking its audience which would last longer. The lettuce did. Truss resigned, sensationally, after just 49 days in office — Britain's shortest-serving prime minister. "She imploded," Rutter says. By this point the UK was years deep in a cost-of-living crisis, with the price of energy bills, housing and groceries ballooning. While Russia's invasion of Ukraine was partly to blame, policy was also behind it. Inflation reached its peak of 11.1 per cent under Truss's watch. Rishi Sunak, who had fought Truss for the leadership, took over. "He's never been massively popular," says Stowers. "And he's certainly not increased his popularity in the last year and a half." His signature policy was limiting immigration: an issue that the party's most strident right-wingers are deeply interested in but that — according to multiple surveys — does not rank in the top three for most voters. Some wins amid several scandals Losing 250 seats on Thursday was the exclamation point at the end of a story of unprecedented chaos. "The Tory party, having been really, for much of its sort of life, an efficient, pragmatic, election-winning machine has sort of dissolved," Rutter says. When the Conservatives came to office in 2010, Britain's most senior treasury bureaucrat famously left a note warning "there's no money left". The Tories were supposed to be a fresh start, albeit in difficult circumstances. In Cameron's first speech as PM, he said he wanted to build the economy and create stronger communities. "And, I want a political system that people can trust and look up to once again," he said. Fourteen years later, Britain has gone backwards in all those metrics. "The Conservative Party has to come to terms with the manner of its behaviour over the past few years," says Dunt. "Not just the rank incompetence, but also the moral degeneration around Partygate, and becoming obsessed with cultural issues during a cost-of-living crisis." The Tories do, after 14 years, have achievements to hold up. Despite churning through 10 different education secretaries in that time, and cutting the budget, reading levels among students at primary level in England are now the best in the Western world. Among its five prime ministers were two women, and the country's first British Asian leader. It's unclear whether Brexit was the catalyst to change the Conservatives, or whether it just accelerated something that was already coming. But once the shift happened, Dunt says there's no doubting what tore the Tories apart.
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He has been Member of Parliament (MP) for West Suffolk since 2010. He is a member of the Conservative Party, but now sits in the House of Commons as an independent, having had the whip suspended since November 2022.			DBpedia	http://dbpedia.org/resource/Matt_Hancock	dbo:abstract مات هانكوك (بالإنجليزية: Matthew Hancock)‏ هو اقتصادي وسياسي بريطاني، ولد في 2 أكتوبر 1978 في المملكة المتحدة. حزبياً، نشط في حزب المحافظين. (ar) Matthew Hancock (Chester, 2 d'octubre de 1978) és un polític britànic. Membre del partit conservador, va ser secretari d'Estat de Salut i Protecció Social del 2018 al 2021, després d'haver exercit de secretari d'Estat de Digital, Cultura, Mitjans de Comunicació i Esport. Des de llavors ha representat West Suffolk a la Cambra dels Comuns del Regne Unit. (ca) Matthew John David „Matt“ Hancock (* 2. Oktober 1978 in Chester) ist ein britischer Politiker (Conservative Party) und Reality-TV-Darsteller. Er war ab dem 9. Juli 2018 Gesundheitsminister im Kabinett May II, anschließend Gesundheitsminister in den Kabinetten Johnson I und Johnson II; am 26. Juni 2021 trat er zurück. (de) Matthew John David Hancock (Cheshire, Reino Unido, 2 de octubre de 1978), conocido como Matt Hancock, es un político británico, Secretario de Estado de Salud y Asistencia Social desde 2018. Miembro del Partido Conservador, ha sido miembro de parlamento (MP) por desde las elecciones generales del Reino Unido de 2010. Hancock sirvió en varios puestos ministeriales de rango medio desde septiembre de 2013 bajo David Cameron y Theresa May. En 2018 se untó al gabinete como Secretario de Estado para la Cultura, Medios de Comunicación y Deporte en enero de 2018. El 9 de julio de 2018, después de la promoción de Jeremy Hunt a , se nombró a Hancock como . El 25 de mayo de 2019, Hancock anunció su intención de postularse en la elección de liderazgo del Partido Conservador de 2019. Se retiró el 14 de junio después de la primera votación. (es) Matthew John David Hancock (born 2 October 1978) is a British politician who served as Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster General from 2015 to 2016, Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport from January to July 2018, and Secretary of State for Health and Social Care from 2018 to 2021. He has been Member of Parliament (MP) for West Suffolk since 2010. He is a member of the Conservative Party, but now sits in the House of Commons as an independent, having had the whip suspended since November 2022. Hancock was born in Cheshire, where his family runs a software business. He studied for a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) at Exeter College, Oxford, and an MPhil in Economics at Christ's College, Cambridge. He was an economist at the Bank of England before serving as a senior economic adviser and later chief of staff to George Osborne. Hancock was first elected as the MP for West Suffolk in 2010, succeeding Richard Spring. He was re-elected as West Suffolk's MP in 2015, 2017, and 2019. Hancock served as a junior minister at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills from 2013 to 2015 and was the United Kingdom Anti-Corruption Champion from 2014 to 2015. He attended David Cameron's cabinet as Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster General from 2015 to 2016. After Theresa May became Prime Minister following Cameron's resignation, Hancock was moved to the post of Minister of State for Digital and Culture. He was promoted to May's cabinet as Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. In July 2018, after the promotion of Jeremy Hunt to Foreign Secretary, Hancock replaced him as Secretary of State for Health and Social Care. After May's resignation, Hancock stood in the Conservative Party leadership election to replace her, but withdrew shortly after the first ballot and subsequently endorsed Boris Johnson. After Johnson became Prime Minister, Hancock retained his position as Health Secretary in his cabinet. Hancock's tenure as Health Secretary was marked by the COVID-19 pandemic, which he played a prominent role in the government's response to. Hancock oversaw efforts to procure personal protective equipment, as well as to expand COVID-19 testing and tracing, and also oversaw the early stage of the UK's vaccination programme. In June 2021, after it was shown that he had breached COVID-19 social distancing restrictions, Hancock resigned as Health Secretary and was succeeded by Sajid Javid. Following his resignation as Health Secretary, Hancock returned to the backbenches. In November 2022, Hancock had the whip suspended after announcing he would be appearing as a contestant in the 22nd UK series of the survival reality television show I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!, in which he finished in third place. (en) Matthew John David Hancock, dit Matt Hancock, né le 2 octobre 1978 à Chester, est un homme politique britannique. Membre du Parti conservateur, il est secrétaire d'État à la Santé et à la Protection sociale de 2018 à 2021, après avoir occupé le poste de secrétaire d'État au Numérique, à la Culture, aux Médias et au Sport. Il siège à la Chambre des communes du Royaume-Uni depuis le 6 mai 2010 pour West Suffolk et le parti conservateur. Il est suspendu de son parti pour cause de participation à l'émission de téléréalite I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!. (fr) Polaiteoir de chuid an Pháirtí Choimeádaigh sa Ríocht Aontaithe is ea Matthew John David Hancock. Rugadh é i Chester ar an 2 Deireadh Fómhair 1978. Bhí Hancock ceaptha mar Rúnaí Sláinte na Breataine sa bhliain 2019. (ga) Matthew John David Hancock (lahir 2 Oktober 1978) adalah seorang politikus Britania Raya yang menjabat sebagai sejak 2018. Ia sebelumnya menjabat sebagai pada 2018 selama enam bulan. (in) 매슈 존 데이비드 행콕(영어: Matthew John David Hancock, 1978년 10월 2일 ~ )은 영국의 정치인으로 2018년부터 2021년까지 장관을 지냈다. 그 이전에는 6개월 동안 디지털문화언론체육부 장관을 지냈다. 보수당 소속으로 2010년 이래 서서포크 선거구의 국회의원이기도 하다. 체셔주에서 태어났으며, 그의 가족은 그곳에서 소프트웨어 사업을 하고 있었다. 에서 철학, 정치학, 정치학 학사 학위를 취득했으며, 크라이스츠 칼리지에서 경제학 석사 학위를 취득했다. 졸업 후에는 잉글랜드 은행에서 경제학자로 근무하다가, 이후 조지 오스본 예비 재무장관의 선임경제고문 및 수석보좌관을 지냈다. 2013년 9월부터 2015년 5월까지 상업혁신기술부 차관을 지냈으며, 2015년부터 2016년까지 데이비드 캐머런 내각의 국무조정실 장관을 지냈다. 2016년 테리사 메이 총리가 취임한 이후 디지털문화부 장관으로 강등되었다가, 2018년 1월 개각 때 문화부 장관으로 임명되었다. 2018년 7월 9일 외무장관으로 임명된 제러미 헌트를 대신해 신임 보건사회복지부 장관으로 취임했다. 2019년 5월 25일 차기 보수당 전당대회 출마를 선언했으나, 6월 14일 1차 투표 이후 사퇴했다. 이후 보리스 존슨을 지지했으며, 존슨이 보수당 대표 겸 영국 총리가 되자 유임했다. 보건부 장관 시절 코로나19 범유행을 겪었으며, 이 시기 백신 공급 계획을 발표했다. 2021년 6월 화이트홀에서 사회적 거리두기를 위반하고 보좌관 와 키스 및 포옹을 한 장면이 공개되자 보건사회복지부 장관직을 사임했으며, 후임으로는 새지드 재비드가 임명되었다. (ko) Matthew John David (Matt) Hancock (Chester, Engeland, 2 oktober 1978) is een Brits politicus. Hij is sinds 2010 lid van het Lagerhuis voor West-Suffolk. Hancock is lid van de Conservative Party. Hij werd op 1 november 2022 uit de Conservatieve fractie gezet en heeft sindsdien zitting als onafhankelijk Lagerhuislid. Hancock was vanaf 2013 bewindspersoon tijdens de kabinetten-Cameron I, -Cameron II, -May I, -May II, -Johnson I en -Johnson II. Hij was van 2018 tot 2021 minister van volksgezondheid en speelde een centrale rol bij de ontwikkeling van het Britse beleid tijdens de coronapandemie. (nl) Matthew John David Hancock (Chester, 2 ottobre 1978) è un politico britannico del Partito Conservatore e membro del Parlamento britannico e Segretario di Stato per la salute e gli affari sociali del Regno Unito dal 9 luglio 2018 al 26 giugno 2021, giorno in cui si è dimesso dopo aver violato le norme del distanziamento sociale adottate durante la pandemia da COVID-19. (it) Matt Hancock (ur. 2 października 1978 w Chester) − brytyjski polityk, członek Partii Konserwatywnej. Od 2010 poseł do Izby Gmin. Od 9 lipca 2018 do 26 czerwca 2021 zajmował stanowisko ministra zdrowia, wcześniej przez pół roku był ministrem kultury, mediów i sportu. (pl) Метью Джон Девід Генкок (англ. Matthew John David Hancock; нар. 2 жовтня 1978, Честер, Англія) — британський політик-консерватор. Член парламенту з 2010, державний міністр з ефективності і реформи цивільної служби і генеральний скарбник з 2015 до 2016. Міністр охорони здоров'я з липня 2018 до червня 2021. Подав у відставку після того, як британський таблоїд The Sun опублікував світлини, на яких Генкок цілувався з подругою, не дотримуючись соціального дистанціювання. Обоє мають свої сім'ї. Вивчав філософію, політику та економіку в Оксфорді і отримав ступінь магістра економіки у Кембриджі. Генкок деякий час працював у компанії комп'ютерного програмного забезпечення своєї родини, протягом п'яти років був економістом у Банку Англії, а 2005 року перейшов на роботу до тодішнього тіньового Канцлера скарбниці Джорджа Осборна. У вересні 2013 року Генкоку запропонували стати державним міністром навичок та підприємства, у липні 2014 його призначили державним міністром у справах бізнесу, енергетики та підприємництва (паралельно також працював державним міністром Портсмуту і державним міністром енергетики). (uk) Мэттью Джон Дэвид Хэнкок (англ. Matthew John David Hancock; род. 2 октября 1978, Честер, Чешир, Англия) — британский политик, генеральный казначей и министр Кабинета во втором правительстве Кэмерона (2015—2016). Министр здравоохранения (с 2018 по 2021). (ru) 马修·约翰·戴维·汉考克（英語：Matthew John David Hancock；1978年10月2日－），是英國保守黨的黨員，曾任英國衛生大臣。自2010年英國大選後擔任英国下议院西薩福克選區國會議員。 (zh) rdfs:comment مات هانكوك (بالإنجليزية: Matthew Hancock)‏ هو اقتصادي وسياسي بريطاني، ولد في 2 أكتوبر 1978 في المملكة المتحدة. حزبياً، نشط في حزب المحافظين. (ar) Matthew Hancock (Chester, 2 d'octubre de 1978) és un polític britànic. Membre del partit conservador, va ser secretari d'Estat de Salut i Protecció Social del 2018 al 2021, després d'haver exercit de secretari d'Estat de Digital, Cultura, Mitjans de Comunicació i Esport. Des de llavors ha representat West Suffolk a la Cambra dels Comuns del Regne Unit. (ca) Matthew John David „Matt“ Hancock (* 2. Oktober 1978 in Chester) ist ein britischer Politiker (Conservative Party) und Reality-TV-Darsteller. Er war ab dem 9. Juli 2018 Gesundheitsminister im Kabinett May II, anschließend Gesundheitsminister in den Kabinetten Johnson I und Johnson II; am 26. Juni 2021 trat er zurück. (de) Matthew John David Hancock, dit Matt Hancock, né le 2 octobre 1978 à Chester, est un homme politique britannique. Membre du Parti conservateur, il est secrétaire d'État à la Santé et à la Protection sociale de 2018 à 2021, après avoir occupé le poste de secrétaire d'État au Numérique, à la Culture, aux Médias et au Sport. Il siège à la Chambre des communes du Royaume-Uni depuis le 6 mai 2010 pour West Suffolk et le parti conservateur. Il est suspendu de son parti pour cause de participation à l'émission de téléréalite I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!. (fr) Polaiteoir de chuid an Pháirtí Choimeádaigh sa Ríocht Aontaithe is ea Matthew John David Hancock. Rugadh é i Chester ar an 2 Deireadh Fómhair 1978. Bhí Hancock ceaptha mar Rúnaí Sláinte na Breataine sa bhliain 2019. (ga) Matthew John David Hancock (lahir 2 Oktober 1978) adalah seorang politikus Britania Raya yang menjabat sebagai sejak 2018. Ia sebelumnya menjabat sebagai pada 2018 selama enam bulan. (in) Matthew John David (Matt) Hancock (Chester, Engeland, 2 oktober 1978) is een Brits politicus. Hij is sinds 2010 lid van het Lagerhuis voor West-Suffolk. Hancock is lid van de Conservative Party. Hij werd op 1 november 2022 uit de Conservatieve fractie gezet en heeft sindsdien zitting als onafhankelijk Lagerhuislid. Hancock was vanaf 2013 bewindspersoon tijdens de kabinetten-Cameron I, -Cameron II, -May I, -May II, -Johnson I en -Johnson II. Hij was van 2018 tot 2021 minister van volksgezondheid en speelde een centrale rol bij de ontwikkeling van het Britse beleid tijdens de coronapandemie. (nl) Matthew John David Hancock (Chester, 2 ottobre 1978) è un politico britannico del Partito Conservatore e membro del Parlamento britannico e Segretario di Stato per la salute e gli affari sociali del Regno Unito dal 9 luglio 2018 al 26 giugno 2021, giorno in cui si è dimesso dopo aver violato le norme del distanziamento sociale adottate durante la pandemia da COVID-19. (it) Matt Hancock (ur. 2 października 1978 w Chester) − brytyjski polityk, członek Partii Konserwatywnej. Od 2010 poseł do Izby Gmin. Od 9 lipca 2018 do 26 czerwca 2021 zajmował stanowisko ministra zdrowia, wcześniej przez pół roku był ministrem kultury, mediów i sportu. (pl) Мэттью Джон Дэвид Хэнкок (англ. Matthew John David Hancock; род. 2 октября 1978, Честер, Чешир, Англия) — британский политик, генеральный казначей и министр Кабинета во втором правительстве Кэмерона (2015—2016). Министр здравоохранения (с 2018 по 2021). (ru) 马修·约翰·戴维·汉考克（英語：Matthew John David Hancock；1978年10月2日－），是英國保守黨的黨員，曾任英國衛生大臣。自2010年英國大選後擔任英国下议院西薩福克選區國會議員。 (zh) Matthew John David Hancock (Cheshire, Reino Unido, 2 de octubre de 1978), conocido como Matt Hancock, es un político británico, Secretario de Estado de Salud y Asistencia Social desde 2018. Miembro del Partido Conservador, ha sido miembro de parlamento (MP) por desde las elecciones generales del Reino Unido de 2010. (es) Matthew John David Hancock (born 2 October 1978) is a British politician who served as Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster General from 2015 to 2016, Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport from January to July 2018, and Secretary of State for Health and Social Care from 2018 to 2021. He has been Member of Parliament (MP) for West Suffolk since 2010. He is a member of the Conservative Party, but now sits in the House of Commons as an independent, having had the whip suspended since November 2022. (en) 매슈 존 데이비드 행콕(영어: Matthew John David Hancock, 1978년 10월 2일 ~ )은 영국의 정치인으로 2018년부터 2021년까지 장관을 지냈다. 그 이전에는 6개월 동안 디지털문화언론체육부 장관을 지냈다. 보수당 소속으로 2010년 이래 서서포크 선거구의 국회의원이기도 하다. 체셔주에서 태어났으며, 그의 가족은 그곳에서 소프트웨어 사업을 하고 있었다. 에서 철학, 정치학, 정치학 학사 학위를 취득했으며, 크라이스츠 칼리지에서 경제학 석사 학위를 취득했다. 졸업 후에는 잉글랜드 은행에서 경제학자로 근무하다가, 이후 조지 오스본 예비 재무장관의 선임경제고문 및 수석보좌관을 지냈다. 2013년 9월부터 2015년 5월까지 상업혁신기술부 차관을 지냈으며, 2015년부터 2016년까지 데이비드 캐머런 내각의 국무조정실 장관을 지냈다. 2016년 테리사 메이 총리가 취임한 이후 디지털문화부 장관으로 강등되었다가, 2018년 1월 개각 때 문화부 장관으로 임명되었다. (ko) Метью Джон Девід Генкок (англ. Matthew John David Hancock; нар. 2 жовтня 1978, Честер, Англія) — британський політик-консерватор. Член парламенту з 2010, державний міністр з ефективності і реформи цивільної служби і генеральний скарбник з 2015 до 2016. Міністр охорони здоров'я з липня 2018 до червня 2021. Подав у відставку після того, як британський таблоїд The Sun опублікував світлини, на яких Генкок цілувався з подругою, не дотримуючись соціального дистанціювання. Обоє мають свої сім'ї. (uk)
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Senior government figures believe there is a path for him to return to the Tory benches, with Nadine Dorries, another Tory MP who appeared on the show, seen as a precedent. Mr Hancock is a vocal supporter of Rishi Sunak, backing both of his Tory leadership campaigns this year. The pair also used to have parliamentary offices beside each other. The Prime Minister also faces crunch votes in the House of Commons, with rebellions emerging on planning and onshore wind and more Tory splits expected next year - meaning every vote counts. Ms Dorries had to wait around six months to regain the Tory whip after she lost it for appearing on ITV’s I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here! in 2012. At the time, Ms Dorries was a public critic of David Cameron and George Osborne, then the prime minister and chancellor, having once dubbed them “arrogant posh boys”. Mr Hancock’s overt support for Mr Sunak, combined with the challenges the Government faces keeping the Tories together, despite a sizable Commons majority, means his wait could be shorter. Losing the whip means that an MP no longer sits in the House of Commons for the political party they were elected under. So Mr Hancock, the MP for West Suffolk, is currently an independent. The former health secretary’s run in the Australian jungle ended on Sunday, night when he finished in third place in the reality television show. A spokesman for Mr Hancock said of his political future: “Matt has no intention of standing down or stepping away from politics.” It means he will continue to attend Parliament. A question mark remains on whether he will stand again at the next general election, expected in 2024. The deadline for Tory MPs to decide on whether to seek another term is this Friday, leading to speculation that Mr Hancock could be replaced as the Tory candidate in his constituency. But despite the cut-off it is possible exceptions can be made, with the process for deciding who is the formal Tory candidate potentially dragging on for months. A decision on whether to allow Mr Hancock to regain the Tory whip sits with Simon Hart, the Chief Whip, who is in charge of party discipline. Mr Hancock is expected to talk to Mr Hart in the coming days as he returns to Westminster to continue his duties as an MP. Sir Tony Blair, the former Labour prime minister, offered some warm words for Mr Hancock over his appearance - telling The News Agents podcast: "He's probably got quite a lot of courage to go and do something like that."
8744	dbpedia	1	53	https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/matt-hancock-and-rishi-sunak-show-why-we-need-professional-politicians/	en	Matt Hancock and Rishi Sunak show why we need professional politicians	https://www.spectator.co…s-1200762941.jpg	https://www.spectator.co…s-1200762941.jpg	[ "https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/cover-17082024-issue.jpg?w=358", "https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/cover-17082024-issue.jpg?w=358", "https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/James_K.png?w=192", "https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/GettyImages-1200762941.jpg?w=1024", "https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/GettyImages-1200762941.jpg?w=1024", "https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/GettyImages-2154365796.jpg?w=378", "https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/James_K.png?w=176", "https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/GettyImages-1200762941.jpg?w=1024", "https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/iStock-1318890610.jpg?w=378", "https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/GettyImages-2166135168-e1723801165635.jpg?w=200", "https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/James_K.png?w=64", "https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/GettyImages-2159374655.jpg?w=200", "https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Steerpike.png?w=64", "https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/GettyImages-2152606678.jpg?w=200", "https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/GettyImages-2154365796.jpg?w=200", "https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Cinema_092b8f.png?w=200", "https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/GettyImages-2166040844.jpg?w=200", "https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/GettyImages-2165129711-e1724046924919.jpg?w=200", "https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Baby-Doomers.jpg-copy.jpg?w=200" ]	[]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[ "James Kirkup" ]	2020-04-03T09:15:41+00:00	Coronavirus commentary often takes a familiar form, which can easily be parodied thus: ‘Why the Coronavirus crisis justifies the thing I was arguing for before the crisis.’ I mention this because this article could, I suppose, be written off in that way. It is a column of praise for technocratic, wonkish politician-managers written by someone	en	https://www.spectator.co…e-touch-icon.png	The Spectator	https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/matt-hancock-and-rishi-sunak-show-why-we-need-professional-politicians/	Coronavirus commentary often takes a familiar form, which can easily be parodied thus: ‘Why the Coronavirus crisis justifies the thing I was arguing for before the crisis.’ I mention this because this article could, I suppose, be written off in that way. It is a column of praise for technocratic, wonkish politician-managers written by someone who runs a centrist think-tank. I would say this, wouldn’t I? Well, perhaps, but I will say it anyway: the coronavirus crisis is reminding us that we should, once again, value politicians whose primary skill is understanding, gripping and managing complicated stuff and whose inclination is to put that management ahead of appealing to the emotions of voters. By way of evidence, I offer you Matt Hancock and Rishi Sunak. If you, like many others, keep a regular eye on Downing Street’s daily media briefing, you’ll have seen that the Chancellor and, most recently yesterday the health secretary, have emerged as the ministers best able to demonstrate command of their brief and a sense of grip on the crisis. Since we all now live our social lives via social media, I have observed via the magic of WhatsApp non-political friends’ responses to Sunak and Hancock in almost real-time. To at least some people outside the Westminster bubble, both have cut through and delivered at least a bit of reassurance that the people in charge have some idea of what they’re doing. After a rocky few days, my guess is that Hancock’s impressive performance at yesterday’s briefing will help steady the ship that is the government’s communications effort. This is no small matter, given that the implementation of policy (lockdown) ultimately depends on public confidence in the people behind that policy. Sunak’s nerveless assurance probably had similar calming effects on what remains a fragile, faltering economy when he announced his financial support packages last month. To be clear, neither man has fixed anything yet. The testing problems Hancock addressed remain unresolved. The economic outlook Sunak addressed remains dire. But at least they looked like they understood the situation, had a plan to respond and were capable of overseeing its implementation. This is worth noting because Hancock and Sunak are the sort of politicians we are supposed to have grown weary of. Their CVs are almost generic. Private school then PPE (no, the other sort) at Oxford, followed by brief spells in finance (Sunak: Goldman Sachs and hedgefunds. Hancock: the Bank of England). Then quickly into political apparatchik jobs (Hancock: George Osborne’s adviser. Sunak: a Tory think-tank) and a safe Tory seat in your 30s. Then a rapid leap to Cabinet. (Hancock, 41, became an MP at 31 and a Cabinet minister at 39. Sunak, 39, entered the Commons at 35 and took full Cabinet rank in February.) By inclination, neither Sunak nor Hancock is a tub-thumping partisan; it’s quite easy to imagine that had they been born a decade earlier, they might have sat alongside the likes of Andy Burnham and James Purnell (both 50) in a later Blair Cabinet. Both give the impression that politics is more an exercise of skill and judgement than the work of deep conviction. Overall, it’s hard to resist the conclusion that they are cut from the same cloth as David Cameron, who was once asked why he wanted to be PM and replied: ‘Because I’d be good at it.’ Sunak and Hancock are, in short, the sort of bloodless technocratic ‘professional politicians’ the nation is supposed to have rejected when it sent Cameron packing. But here’s the thing. Cameron is out because he wasn’t, ultimately, good at it. But that doesn’t mean that there is no use or value in clever, young professional politicos with big brains and bottomless confidence. It just means David Cameron wasn’t as clever as he thought he was. It does not logically follow that because Cameron failed as PM that politicians from the same mould cannot succeed elsewhere. Indeed, the coronavirus crisis is precisely the sort of situation when the people you want in charge are smart, confident types able to absorb great stacks of detailed information without losing sight of strategic goals. This is a time for followers of the ‘what works’ school of politics who can make the machine work, not culture-warriors whose response to complicated, serious problems is to blame the officials working to solve those problems. This is why Rishi Sunak and Matt Hancock are the men to watch in Cabinet right now. Will this help them politically? Are they the future of their party, the next Blair and Brown or Cameron and Osborne? I have no idea. Although people are indeed talking about that prospect, it seems far too early to be making bets on journeys across a political landscape that is still shifting. The fan-chart of possible political outcomes from here covers a spread of eventualities ranging from a decade in No 10 for Boris Johnson to prime minister Keir Starmer by Christmas.
8744	dbpedia	0	67	https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/uk-opens-investigation-into-former-british-prime-minister-david-camerons-lobbying-activities-report-2411907	en	UK Opens Probe Into Former PM David Cameron's Lobbying Activities: Report	https://c.ndtvimg.com/20…_12_April_21.jpg	https://c.ndtvimg.com/20…_12_April_21.jpg	[ "https://sb.scorecardresearch.com/p?c1=2&c2=9548033&cv=2.0&cj=1", "https://c.ndtvimg.com/2021-04/hmf6fkm_david-cameron_625x300_12_April_21.jpg", "https://c.ndtvimg.com/2024-08/b9vurmug_vinesh-phogat_625x300_17_August_24.jpeg?im=FeatureCrop,algorithm=dnn,width=240,height=180", "https://c.ndtvimg.com/2024-08/vepns0g_rg-kar-doctors-father_625x300_18_August_24.jpg?im=FaceCrop,algorithm=dnn,width=240,height=180", "https://c.ndtvimg.com/2024-08/56q75jmg_kolkatadoctor7_625x300_19_August_24.jpg?im=FeatureCrop,algorithm=dnn,width=240,height=180", "https://c.ndtvimg.com/2024-08/odacqu48_iphone-flower-seller_625x300_19_August_24.jpeg", "https://c.ndtvimg.com/2024-08/40jp7sdo_mamata-banerjee_625x300_02_August_24.jpeg?im=FeatureCrop,algorithm=dnn,width=240,height=180", "https://c.ndtvimg.com/2024-08/r3al4tbg_manu-bhaker-return-india_625x300_07_August_24.jpg?im=FitAndFill,algorithm=dnn,width=240,height=180", "https://cdn.ndtv.com/static/ndtv_2014/images/next_blog_arrow_big_new.png", "https://cdn.ndtv.com/static/ndtv_2014/images/prev_blog_arrow_big_new.png", "https://c.ndtvimg.com/2024-05/0ksfhdig_columbia-university_625x300_06_May_24.jpg?im=FitAndFill,algorithm=dnn,width=240,height=180", "https://c.ndtvimg.com/2024-08/shpc8vs4_child-toy-generic_625x300_19_August_24.jpg?im=FeatureCrop,algorithm=dnn,width=240,height=180", "https://c.ndtvimg.com/2024-08/jtr88tn8_upsc-rahul-gandhi_625x300_19_August_24.jpg?im=FeatureCrop,algorithm=dnn,width=240,height=180", "https://c.ndtvimg.com/2024-08/40jp7sdo_mamata-banerjee_625x300_02_August_24.jpeg?im=FeatureCrop,algorithm=dnn,width=240,height=180", "https://c.ndtvimg.com/2022-09/j02kvbv_mumbai-police-generic-240_120x90_06_September_22.jpg", "https://googleads.g.doubleclick.net/pagead/viewthroughconversion/968076326/?guid=ON&script=0", "https://alerts.ndtv.com/images/web.png" ]	[]	[]	[ "David Cameron", "Former British prime minister", "lobbying", "UK investigation" ]	null	[]	2021-04-12T17:18:00+05:30	The British government has opened an official independently-run investigation into former Prime Minister David Cameron's lobbying activities for financier Lex Greensill, The Sun newspaper reported.		https://www.ndtv.com/sta…v_touch_icon.png	NDTV.com	https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/uk-opens-investigation-into-former-british-prime-minister-david-camerons-lobbying-activities-report-2411907	London: The British government has opened an official independently-run investigation into former Prime Minister David Cameron's lobbying activities for financier Lex Greensill, The Sun newspaper reported. While Cameron was British prime minister from 2010 to 2016, the Australian banker was brought in as an adviser to the government. After leaving office, Cameron in turn became an adviser to Greensill's now-insolvent finance firm. The Financial Times and Sunday Times newspapers have reported that Cameron contacted ministers directly to lobby on behalf of Greensill Capital, including sending texts to finance minister Rishi Sunak and arranging a private drink between Greensill and Health Secretary Matt Hancock. In his first comments on the row on Sunday, Cameron said that in his representations to government he was breaking no codes of conduct and no government rules. Ultimately the outcome of the discussions on Greensill's proposals regarding a loan were not taken up, he said, and therefore his interventions did not lead to a change in the government's approach. "However, I have reflected on this at length," he said in a statement to the Press Association news agency. "There are important lessons to be learnt. As a former Prime Minister, I accept that communications with government need to be done through only the most formal of channels, so there can be no room for misinterpretation."
8744	dbpedia	2	91	https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/david-cameron-matt-hancock-illumina-genomics-england-285787/	en	‘Robbed in cold daylight:’ Firm won £123m contract after Cameron urged Hancock to attend meeting	https://www.thelondoneco…lage-scaled.jpeg	https://www.thelondoneco…lage-scaled.jpeg	[ "https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/c27a0793-the-london-economic-logo-200.jpg", "https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/c27a0793-the-london-economic-logo-200.jpg", "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/c8e167988c66ef976001171d8472bd40?s=160&d=mm&r=g 2x", "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/c8e167988c66ef976001171d8472bd40?s=80&d=mm&r=g", "https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/e7f13711-befunky-collage-750x750.jpeg", "https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/e7f13711-befunky-collage-750x750.jpeg" ]	[]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[ "Andra Maciuca", "www.facebook.com" ]	2021-08-13T10:02:01+00:00	A firm employing David Cameron as a consultant gained a £123 million contract after he allegedly asked Matt Hancock to attend a conference.	en	https://www.thelondoneco…icon-1-32x32.jpg	The London Economic	https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/david-cameron-matt-hancock-illumina-genomics-england-285787/	A firm employing David Cameron as a consultant gained a multi-million-pound contract after he allegedly asked the former health secretary to attend a genomics conference. The former prime minister started working for Ilumina in 2018 and in 2019 he reportedly wrote a letter to Matt Hancock “strongly” endorsing the company’s conference, according to The Times. The letter read: “I understand Jay [Flatley, former executive chairman of Illumina] has sent this direct to your office, but I wanted to i) ensure that you had seen it personally; and ii) strongly endorse their invitation to this significant conference.” The newspaper said Hancock agreed to attend the conference, also attended by Cameron himself, and a £123 million contract followed. Contract But a spokesperson for Cameron told The Independent: “As has been made clear on numerous occasions, David Cameron has never lobbied the government on behalf of Illumina or been involved in any contract or commercial discussions.” And a government spokesperson said the contract awarded to Ilumina was “signed to help save lives” and “was awarded in the correct way”. The spokesperson insisted suggestions of “undue ministerial involvement in the decision” are “completely wrong”. Ilumina said it always takes the correct steps when negotiating with customers and has worked for the government’s Genomics England since 2014, when it won a £78m contract. A spokesperson for Hancock said the former health secretary “had no involvement in the awarding of these contracts and all normal processes were followed.” Greensill The news come after Cameron faced backlash earlier this week after it emerged he made £7 million from Greensill Capital, another company he has worked for, before it collapsed. Cameron had reportedly tried to convince the government to invest taxpayers’ money in the finance firm’s loans, but the company went into administration in March. But he is still made a total of around $10 million before tax for two and a halfyears of part-time work, BBC Panorama has revealed. It comes after Cameron consistently refused to say how much he was being paid by Greensill – instead, he only ever admitted it was “far more” than his prime minister salary. Austerity Labour MP Jess Phillips referenced the austerity brought onto the British public by Cameron in the light of the eye-watering profits revelations. “Obscene in any case, in light of failure it’s a bloody heist,” she said. She added: “He took away all our local advice services, thousands of local police officers, he reduced funding for refuges, took away access to justice, he made a killing from his failures, we had to suffer because of them.” And Gary Neville declared himself as “not surprised at all.” “Wait till this lot that are in now are finished! We’re being robbed in cold daylight,” he said. Related: Angry reactions to revelations David Cameron made £7m before Greensill collapse
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This scandal – involving the former prime minister David Cameron and current ministers Rishi Sunak and Matt Hancock – is shocking, but perhaps not surprising. Our political system and wider democratic structures, including the media, fail to show any real concern about unethical conduct of this nature. How the Greensill scandal unfolded Friday: The Treasury released a pair of texts sent by Chancellor Rishi Sunak to David Cameron. Cameron had previously asked Sunak that Greensill Capital be given access to government-backed loans. Sunak had claimed to have “pushed the team” at the Treasury “to explore an alternative”. Ultimately, Greensill failed to get the loan from the Bank of England that Cameron had asked for. However, they were later given access to a different loan scheme, which could have helped them access as much as £50m of taxpayer money. Earlier this year, they applied for insolvency, presumably still owing the taxpayer money. Sunday morning: It emerged that Cameron had had a “private drink” with Matt Hancock to discuss contracting Greensill to run an NHS payment scheme. Sunday evening: David Cameron released a 1,800-word statement designed to clarify his role in the affair. In this, he admitted to having asked Sunak for support, and justified this with the extraordinary nature of the pandemic. He said: “As a former Prime Minister, I accept that communications with government need to be done through only the most formal of channels, so there can be no room for misinterpretation.” The ethical questions Of course, this underestimates the ethical questions at hand. Under Cameron’s premiership Hancock rose from a new MP to the threshold of the cabinet. It was on his ‘unofficial A-List’ that Sunak was first elected to the Commons. It is not just that Cameron had an uncomfortable level of access. He had helped these ministers early in their political careers, and then asked for something in return. What we don’t yet know is whether Cameron and Greensill actually got anything from this. The loan from the Bank of England may be part of the “alternative” which Sunak had pushed for, or it may be legitimate. Details may emerge from the coming government inquiry, but given that they have been accused of rewriting the Sewell report to put themselves in a more favourable light, it is uncertain how useful it will be for them to mark their own homework. How do we moderate access? It is not necessarily a bad thing for businesses to have access to cabinet ministers to pitch ideas to them. Whether we like it or not, ministers are not all-knowing, and input from stakeholders like businesses, charities, and unions, has long been seen as a good way to make sure that the decisions the government makes are not just pipe-dreams imagined by policy wonks. However, Cameron had a level of access to senior decision-makers that other businesses lacked. Given that three million people have been still excluded from government support since the start of the pandemic, it is not unreasonable to feel a degree of injustice that a former prime minister could get the current chancellor to try to change government policy as a personal favour. It seems as though Cameron’s claim not to have broken any rules is true. But this itself highlights just how weak the rules are that regulate how the private sector interacts with public officials in this country. The revolving door As iNews reported two weeks ago, 66 of Cameron’s former ministers and advisers took jobs linked to their portfolios within two years of leaving government. Some, such as Priti Patel and Oliver Dowden, have gone back into government since. This ‘revolving door’ is a toxic merry-go-round. MPs come into politics from the business world. They can, and do, receive tens of thousands from private firms when in office, and can expect well-paying lobbying jobs once they have left politics for good. This is particularly a problem among the Conservatives: the 20 MPs who made the most from outside of Parliament in 2018/19 were all Conservative. These included current cabinet members Boris Johnson, Michael Gove, Dominic Raab, Matt Hancock, and Brandon Lewis. Cameron is also not alone in lobbying for special treatment after leaving government. Since leaving government, Dominic Cummings has lobbied two ministries on behalf of his month-old “Siwah” tech consultancy. The revolving door has consequences Cases like Greensill may make prominent examples, but this close relationship between big business and senior decisionmakers cannot help but lead to a class of policymakers isolated from the reality of their decisions. When ministers spend more time at dinners with lobbyists than speaking with their constituents, is it any surprise that from 2010 to 2019 the number of billionaires in the UK doubled, as 1.5 million people in this country were unable to afford the basic essentials? The Greensill story is shocking, but not surprising. Our system has few checks to prevent current and former officials from benefiting from their access to power. Moreover, its incentive system does little to discourage public servants from selling this to the highest bidder. While parliament does have rules and standards like the ministerial code, they are often too vague or too loose. Even worse, they are often enforced by the same people meant to obeying them. We can, of course, change this. Gordon Brown has already come out advocating a tightening of lobbying laws, including banning former prime ministers from lobbying for five years. This won’t truly change, however, until we have a political system that truly cares about this sort of corruption. This has to start with the media, to set the national conversation. Perhaps if press covers political corruption as much as they do the goings-on of the royal family, it will matter enough to voters for our leaders to do something.
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8744	dbpedia	3	6	https://www.keele.ac.uk/about/news/2022/december/keele-comment/matt-hancock-pandemic-diaries.php	en	Comment \| Matt Hancock’s Pandemic Diaries and the history of the redemptive memoir	https://www.keele.ac.uk/…matt-hancock.jpg	https://www.keele.ac.uk/…matt-hancock.jpg	[ "https://www.keele.ac.uk/k-core/media/header/logo.svg", "https://www.keele.ac.uk/k-core/media/header/logo.svg", "https://www.keele.ac.uk/media/header/logo.svg", "https://www.keele.ac.uk/k-core/media/header/logo.svg", "https://www.keele.ac.uk/about/news/2022/december/keele-comment/matt-hancock.jpg", "https://counter.theconversation.com/content/196833/count.gif?distributor=republish-lightbox-basic", "https://www.keele.ac.uk/k-core/media/footer/athena-swan.png", "https://www.keele.ac.uk/k-core/media/footer/tef-gold_.png" ]	[]	[]	[ "Comment \| Matt Hancock’s Pandemic Diaries and the history of the redemptive memo" ]	null	[ "Keele University" ]	2022-12-22T00:00:00	Dr Luke Davies writes for The Conversation.	en	https://www.keele.ac.uk/…h-icon-57x57.png	Keele University	null	Image credit: I T S / Shutterstock.com Matt Hancock has achieved fame in recent months for devouring a cow anus live on television (during his I’m A Celebrity stint) and for releasing questionable TikTok videos cringing about his past “embarrassing” moments. Some will recall that before all this, he was once UK health secretary during the biggest global health crisis in living memory. Back then, he achieved notoriety for (among other things) allowing COVID patients to be sent into care homes and for securing lucrative testing contracts for his friends. Now, Hancock has published his Pandemic Diaries, giving his side of the story. So what insights do they have to offer? And how might a literary historian like myself situate them within the wider context of the political memoir? Early on in Hancock’s diaries, we learn that the UK Health Secretary’s first (and I quote) “oh s***” moment was on January 28, 2020, when he was told that the pandemic could lead to up to 820,000 UK deaths. From then on in, the basic thrust of the narrative is that everyone but Matt Hancock was responsible for the litany of failures that ensued. Delayed restrictions? That was the fault of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies. Dismal contract tracing? Public Health England were to blame. Failure to close UK borders? No. 10 was responsible. Government in chaos? That would be Dominic Cummings. The Erin Brockovich of COVID Reading how “aghast” Hancock was in response to a Prime Minister’s Questions session in early February, in which no one asked a single question about the virus, the impression given is that he was the Erin Brockovich of COVID. Oddly enough, however, none of this quite tallies with Hancock’s account, in these same pages, of his actual activities during this period. Eating Babybels with Ronnie Wood at a Brit Awards ceremony in late February, for instance. Or going to Planet Laser in Bury St Edmunds in early March. Or, more generally, entirely failing to respond to the knowledge that 820,000 lives were at risk by taking decisive action – in the process dismissing the advice of Tory grandees and former prime ministers, who (as Hancock acknowledges in his diaries) were sending desperate text messages demanding restrictions as early as February. A possible explanation for these strange inconsistencies is the fact that Hancock’s diary isn’t actually a diary at all. As he himself admits, he “didn’t have time to keep a detailed diary” during this period - and so the Pandemic Diaries were “pieced together” after the fact. Given the existence of an Imperial College study suggesting that the UK’s delayed response caused 21,000 unnecessary deaths, the pressure on Hancock to retroactively redeem himself seems clear. So what to make of this strange attempt on the part of a disgraced politician, forced to quit in the wake of a scandal, to exonerate themselves? The history of the redemptive memoir Historian George Egerton notes that (while forerunners exist) the concept of the professional politician publishing a text that aims “to explain and interpret” the decisions they made in office didn’t find full expression until the 1890s, with first Chancellor of the German Empire Otto von Bismarck’s landmark three volume memoir. Since then, accelerated by the “professionalisation” of politics during the early 20th century, the pressure to hold politicians to account has grown significantly. As Egerton writes, since the post-war period it has been the norm for politicians to “publish an account of their leadership”. Hancock is hardly the first modern British politician to make use of this trend in an attempt to set the record straight. Tony Blair’s A Journey (2010) and David Cameron’s For the Record (2019) are just two recent examples. What is perhaps unique about Hancock’s contribution to the genre is its fundamental unseriousness. This is not just in the lack of willingness to take any responsibility for the mishandling of the pandemic, or in the fact that inventing a diary is an astonishing feat of post factual audacity. It is in the general ridiculousness of the account that is offered. Less redemption, more slapstick The image that will stay with most readers of Hancock’s diaries is unlikely to be that of a nation bravely facing a crisis. The picture that has been indelibly imprinted upon my mind, for instance, is instead of Hancock struggling “to keep a straight face” at the sight of Thérèse Coffey “chomping on a sandwich” during “an extremely important” Zoom meeting about shielding the vulnerable. Or of Hancock delivering his instructions as Health Secretary from “a director’s chair with ‘Hancock’ across the back”, gifted to him by Pinewood Studios. Or of George Osborne whispering into Hancock’s ear how much he reminds him of “Tigger from Winnie the Pooh”. Of course, the slapstick is on theme for the current Conservative Party: it’s evocative of Michael Gove’s skits on BBC breakfast, or Grant Shapp’s Elf on the Shelf routine, or Boris Johnson’s Love Actually parody. The “total bants” is perhaps less expected in a diary account of a series of events leading to over 200,000 deaths. But then, the cow’s anus was unexpected too. Luke Lewin Davies, Lecturer in Literature, Keele University
8744	dbpedia	0	26	https://dbpedia.org/page/Matt_Hancock	en	About: Matt Hancock	http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Official_portrait_of_Rt_Hon_Matt_Hancock_MP_crop_2.jpg?width=300	http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Official_portrait_of_Rt_Hon_Matt_Hancock_MP_crop_2.jpg?width=300	[ "https://dbpedia.org/statics/images/dbpedia_logo_land_120.png", "http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Official_portrait_of_Rt_Hon_Matt_Hancock_MP_crop_2.jpg?width=300", "https://dbpedia.org/statics/images/virt_power_no_border.png", "https://dbpedia.org/statics/images/LoDLogo.gif", "https://dbpedia.org/statics/images/sw-sparql-blue.png", "https://dbpedia.org/statics/images/od_80x15_red_green.png", "https://www.w3.org/Icons/valid-xhtml-rdfa" ]	[]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[]	null	Matthew John David Hancock (born 2 October 1978) is a British politician who served as Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster General from 2015 to 2016, Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport from January to July 2018, and Secretary of State for Health and Social Care from 2018 to 2021. He has been Member of Parliament (MP) for West Suffolk since 2010. He is a member of the Conservative Party, but now sits in the House of Commons as an independent, having had the whip suspended since November 2022.			DBpedia	http://dbpedia.org/resource/Matt_Hancock	dbo:abstract مات هانكوك (بالإنجليزية: Matthew Hancock)‏ هو اقتصادي وسياسي بريطاني، ولد في 2 أكتوبر 1978 في المملكة المتحدة. حزبياً، نشط في حزب المحافظين. (ar) Matthew Hancock (Chester, 2 d'octubre de 1978) és un polític britànic. Membre del partit conservador, va ser secretari d'Estat de Salut i Protecció Social del 2018 al 2021, després d'haver exercit de secretari d'Estat de Digital, Cultura, Mitjans de Comunicació i Esport. Des de llavors ha representat West Suffolk a la Cambra dels Comuns del Regne Unit. (ca) Matthew John David „Matt“ Hancock (* 2. Oktober 1978 in Chester) ist ein britischer Politiker (Conservative Party) und Reality-TV-Darsteller. Er war ab dem 9. Juli 2018 Gesundheitsminister im Kabinett May II, anschließend Gesundheitsminister in den Kabinetten Johnson I und Johnson II; am 26. Juni 2021 trat er zurück. (de) Matthew John David Hancock (Cheshire, Reino Unido, 2 de octubre de 1978), conocido como Matt Hancock, es un político británico, Secretario de Estado de Salud y Asistencia Social desde 2018. Miembro del Partido Conservador, ha sido miembro de parlamento (MP) por desde las elecciones generales del Reino Unido de 2010. Hancock sirvió en varios puestos ministeriales de rango medio desde septiembre de 2013 bajo David Cameron y Theresa May. En 2018 se untó al gabinete como Secretario de Estado para la Cultura, Medios de Comunicación y Deporte en enero de 2018. El 9 de julio de 2018, después de la promoción de Jeremy Hunt a , se nombró a Hancock como . El 25 de mayo de 2019, Hancock anunció su intención de postularse en la elección de liderazgo del Partido Conservador de 2019. Se retiró el 14 de junio después de la primera votación. (es) Matthew John David Hancock (born 2 October 1978) is a British politician who served as Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster General from 2015 to 2016, Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport from January to July 2018, and Secretary of State for Health and Social Care from 2018 to 2021. He has been Member of Parliament (MP) for West Suffolk since 2010. He is a member of the Conservative Party, but now sits in the House of Commons as an independent, having had the whip suspended since November 2022. Hancock was born in Cheshire, where his family runs a software business. He studied for a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) at Exeter College, Oxford, and an MPhil in Economics at Christ's College, Cambridge. He was an economist at the Bank of England before serving as a senior economic adviser and later chief of staff to George Osborne. Hancock was first elected as the MP for West Suffolk in 2010, succeeding Richard Spring. He was re-elected as West Suffolk's MP in 2015, 2017, and 2019. Hancock served as a junior minister at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills from 2013 to 2015 and was the United Kingdom Anti-Corruption Champion from 2014 to 2015. He attended David Cameron's cabinet as Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster General from 2015 to 2016. After Theresa May became Prime Minister following Cameron's resignation, Hancock was moved to the post of Minister of State for Digital and Culture. He was promoted to May's cabinet as Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. In July 2018, after the promotion of Jeremy Hunt to Foreign Secretary, Hancock replaced him as Secretary of State for Health and Social Care. After May's resignation, Hancock stood in the Conservative Party leadership election to replace her, but withdrew shortly after the first ballot and subsequently endorsed Boris Johnson. After Johnson became Prime Minister, Hancock retained his position as Health Secretary in his cabinet. Hancock's tenure as Health Secretary was marked by the COVID-19 pandemic, which he played a prominent role in the government's response to. Hancock oversaw efforts to procure personal protective equipment, as well as to expand COVID-19 testing and tracing, and also oversaw the early stage of the UK's vaccination programme. In June 2021, after it was shown that he had breached COVID-19 social distancing restrictions, Hancock resigned as Health Secretary and was succeeded by Sajid Javid. Following his resignation as Health Secretary, Hancock returned to the backbenches. In November 2022, Hancock had the whip suspended after announcing he would be appearing as a contestant in the 22nd UK series of the survival reality television show I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!, in which he finished in third place. (en) Matthew John David Hancock, dit Matt Hancock, né le 2 octobre 1978 à Chester, est un homme politique britannique. Membre du Parti conservateur, il est secrétaire d'État à la Santé et à la Protection sociale de 2018 à 2021, après avoir occupé le poste de secrétaire d'État au Numérique, à la Culture, aux Médias et au Sport. Il siège à la Chambre des communes du Royaume-Uni depuis le 6 mai 2010 pour West Suffolk et le parti conservateur. Il est suspendu de son parti pour cause de participation à l'émission de téléréalite I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!. (fr) Polaiteoir de chuid an Pháirtí Choimeádaigh sa Ríocht Aontaithe is ea Matthew John David Hancock. Rugadh é i Chester ar an 2 Deireadh Fómhair 1978. Bhí Hancock ceaptha mar Rúnaí Sláinte na Breataine sa bhliain 2019. (ga) Matthew John David Hancock (lahir 2 Oktober 1978) adalah seorang politikus Britania Raya yang menjabat sebagai sejak 2018. Ia sebelumnya menjabat sebagai pada 2018 selama enam bulan. (in) 매슈 존 데이비드 행콕(영어: Matthew John David Hancock, 1978년 10월 2일 ~ )은 영국의 정치인으로 2018년부터 2021년까지 장관을 지냈다. 그 이전에는 6개월 동안 디지털문화언론체육부 장관을 지냈다. 보수당 소속으로 2010년 이래 서서포크 선거구의 국회의원이기도 하다. 체셔주에서 태어났으며, 그의 가족은 그곳에서 소프트웨어 사업을 하고 있었다. 에서 철학, 정치학, 정치학 학사 학위를 취득했으며, 크라이스츠 칼리지에서 경제학 석사 학위를 취득했다. 졸업 후에는 잉글랜드 은행에서 경제학자로 근무하다가, 이후 조지 오스본 예비 재무장관의 선임경제고문 및 수석보좌관을 지냈다. 2013년 9월부터 2015년 5월까지 상업혁신기술부 차관을 지냈으며, 2015년부터 2016년까지 데이비드 캐머런 내각의 국무조정실 장관을 지냈다. 2016년 테리사 메이 총리가 취임한 이후 디지털문화부 장관으로 강등되었다가, 2018년 1월 개각 때 문화부 장관으로 임명되었다. 2018년 7월 9일 외무장관으로 임명된 제러미 헌트를 대신해 신임 보건사회복지부 장관으로 취임했다. 2019년 5월 25일 차기 보수당 전당대회 출마를 선언했으나, 6월 14일 1차 투표 이후 사퇴했다. 이후 보리스 존슨을 지지했으며, 존슨이 보수당 대표 겸 영국 총리가 되자 유임했다. 보건부 장관 시절 코로나19 범유행을 겪었으며, 이 시기 백신 공급 계획을 발표했다. 2021년 6월 화이트홀에서 사회적 거리두기를 위반하고 보좌관 와 키스 및 포옹을 한 장면이 공개되자 보건사회복지부 장관직을 사임했으며, 후임으로는 새지드 재비드가 임명되었다. (ko) Matthew John David (Matt) Hancock (Chester, Engeland, 2 oktober 1978) is een Brits politicus. Hij is sinds 2010 lid van het Lagerhuis voor West-Suffolk. Hancock is lid van de Conservative Party. Hij werd op 1 november 2022 uit de Conservatieve fractie gezet en heeft sindsdien zitting als onafhankelijk Lagerhuislid. Hancock was vanaf 2013 bewindspersoon tijdens de kabinetten-Cameron I, -Cameron II, -May I, -May II, -Johnson I en -Johnson II. Hij was van 2018 tot 2021 minister van volksgezondheid en speelde een centrale rol bij de ontwikkeling van het Britse beleid tijdens de coronapandemie. (nl) Matthew John David Hancock (Chester, 2 ottobre 1978) è un politico britannico del Partito Conservatore e membro del Parlamento britannico e Segretario di Stato per la salute e gli affari sociali del Regno Unito dal 9 luglio 2018 al 26 giugno 2021, giorno in cui si è dimesso dopo aver violato le norme del distanziamento sociale adottate durante la pandemia da COVID-19. (it) Matt Hancock (ur. 2 października 1978 w Chester) − brytyjski polityk, członek Partii Konserwatywnej. Od 2010 poseł do Izby Gmin. Od 9 lipca 2018 do 26 czerwca 2021 zajmował stanowisko ministra zdrowia, wcześniej przez pół roku był ministrem kultury, mediów i sportu. (pl) Метью Джон Девід Генкок (англ. Matthew John David Hancock; нар. 2 жовтня 1978, Честер, Англія) — британський політик-консерватор. Член парламенту з 2010, державний міністр з ефективності і реформи цивільної служби і генеральний скарбник з 2015 до 2016. Міністр охорони здоров'я з липня 2018 до червня 2021. Подав у відставку після того, як британський таблоїд The Sun опублікував світлини, на яких Генкок цілувався з подругою, не дотримуючись соціального дистанціювання. Обоє мають свої сім'ї. Вивчав філософію, політику та економіку в Оксфорді і отримав ступінь магістра економіки у Кембриджі. Генкок деякий час працював у компанії комп'ютерного програмного забезпечення своєї родини, протягом п'яти років був економістом у Банку Англії, а 2005 року перейшов на роботу до тодішнього тіньового Канцлера скарбниці Джорджа Осборна. У вересні 2013 року Генкоку запропонували стати державним міністром навичок та підприємства, у липні 2014 його призначили державним міністром у справах бізнесу, енергетики та підприємництва (паралельно також працював державним міністром Портсмуту і державним міністром енергетики). (uk) Мэттью Джон Дэвид Хэнкок (англ. Matthew John David Hancock; род. 2 октября 1978, Честер, Чешир, Англия) — британский политик, генеральный казначей и министр Кабинета во втором правительстве Кэмерона (2015—2016). Министр здравоохранения (с 2018 по 2021). (ru) 马修·约翰·戴维·汉考克（英語：Matthew John David Hancock；1978年10月2日－），是英國保守黨的黨員，曾任英國衛生大臣。自2010年英國大選後擔任英国下议院西薩福克選區國會議員。 (zh) rdfs:comment مات هانكوك (بالإنجليزية: Matthew Hancock)‏ هو اقتصادي وسياسي بريطاني، ولد في 2 أكتوبر 1978 في المملكة المتحدة. حزبياً، نشط في حزب المحافظين. (ar) Matthew Hancock (Chester, 2 d'octubre de 1978) és un polític britànic. Membre del partit conservador, va ser secretari d'Estat de Salut i Protecció Social del 2018 al 2021, després d'haver exercit de secretari d'Estat de Digital, Cultura, Mitjans de Comunicació i Esport. Des de llavors ha representat West Suffolk a la Cambra dels Comuns del Regne Unit. (ca) Matthew John David „Matt“ Hancock (* 2. Oktober 1978 in Chester) ist ein britischer Politiker (Conservative Party) und Reality-TV-Darsteller. Er war ab dem 9. Juli 2018 Gesundheitsminister im Kabinett May II, anschließend Gesundheitsminister in den Kabinetten Johnson I und Johnson II; am 26. Juni 2021 trat er zurück. (de) Matthew John David Hancock, dit Matt Hancock, né le 2 octobre 1978 à Chester, est un homme politique britannique. Membre du Parti conservateur, il est secrétaire d'État à la Santé et à la Protection sociale de 2018 à 2021, après avoir occupé le poste de secrétaire d'État au Numérique, à la Culture, aux Médias et au Sport. Il siège à la Chambre des communes du Royaume-Uni depuis le 6 mai 2010 pour West Suffolk et le parti conservateur. Il est suspendu de son parti pour cause de participation à l'émission de téléréalite I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!. (fr) Polaiteoir de chuid an Pháirtí Choimeádaigh sa Ríocht Aontaithe is ea Matthew John David Hancock. Rugadh é i Chester ar an 2 Deireadh Fómhair 1978. Bhí Hancock ceaptha mar Rúnaí Sláinte na Breataine sa bhliain 2019. (ga) Matthew John David Hancock (lahir 2 Oktober 1978) adalah seorang politikus Britania Raya yang menjabat sebagai sejak 2018. Ia sebelumnya menjabat sebagai pada 2018 selama enam bulan. (in) Matthew John David (Matt) Hancock (Chester, Engeland, 2 oktober 1978) is een Brits politicus. Hij is sinds 2010 lid van het Lagerhuis voor West-Suffolk. Hancock is lid van de Conservative Party. Hij werd op 1 november 2022 uit de Conservatieve fractie gezet en heeft sindsdien zitting als onafhankelijk Lagerhuislid. Hancock was vanaf 2013 bewindspersoon tijdens de kabinetten-Cameron I, -Cameron II, -May I, -May II, -Johnson I en -Johnson II. Hij was van 2018 tot 2021 minister van volksgezondheid en speelde een centrale rol bij de ontwikkeling van het Britse beleid tijdens de coronapandemie. (nl) Matthew John David Hancock (Chester, 2 ottobre 1978) è un politico britannico del Partito Conservatore e membro del Parlamento britannico e Segretario di Stato per la salute e gli affari sociali del Regno Unito dal 9 luglio 2018 al 26 giugno 2021, giorno in cui si è dimesso dopo aver violato le norme del distanziamento sociale adottate durante la pandemia da COVID-19. (it) Matt Hancock (ur. 2 października 1978 w Chester) − brytyjski polityk, członek Partii Konserwatywnej. Od 2010 poseł do Izby Gmin. Od 9 lipca 2018 do 26 czerwca 2021 zajmował stanowisko ministra zdrowia, wcześniej przez pół roku był ministrem kultury, mediów i sportu. (pl) Мэттью Джон Дэвид Хэнкок (англ. Matthew John David Hancock; род. 2 октября 1978, Честер, Чешир, Англия) — британский политик, генеральный казначей и министр Кабинета во втором правительстве Кэмерона (2015—2016). Министр здравоохранения (с 2018 по 2021). (ru) 马修·约翰·戴维·汉考克（英語：Matthew John David Hancock；1978年10月2日－），是英國保守黨的黨員，曾任英國衛生大臣。自2010年英國大選後擔任英国下议院西薩福克選區國會議員。 (zh) Matthew John David Hancock (Cheshire, Reino Unido, 2 de octubre de 1978), conocido como Matt Hancock, es un político británico, Secretario de Estado de Salud y Asistencia Social desde 2018. Miembro del Partido Conservador, ha sido miembro de parlamento (MP) por desde las elecciones generales del Reino Unido de 2010. (es) Matthew John David Hancock (born 2 October 1978) is a British politician who served as Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster General from 2015 to 2016, Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport from January to July 2018, and Secretary of State for Health and Social Care from 2018 to 2021. He has been Member of Parliament (MP) for West Suffolk since 2010. He is a member of the Conservative Party, but now sits in the House of Commons as an independent, having had the whip suspended since November 2022. (en) 매슈 존 데이비드 행콕(영어: Matthew John David Hancock, 1978년 10월 2일 ~ )은 영국의 정치인으로 2018년부터 2021년까지 장관을 지냈다. 그 이전에는 6개월 동안 디지털문화언론체육부 장관을 지냈다. 보수당 소속으로 2010년 이래 서서포크 선거구의 국회의원이기도 하다. 체셔주에서 태어났으며, 그의 가족은 그곳에서 소프트웨어 사업을 하고 있었다. 에서 철학, 정치학, 정치학 학사 학위를 취득했으며, 크라이스츠 칼리지에서 경제학 석사 학위를 취득했다. 졸업 후에는 잉글랜드 은행에서 경제학자로 근무하다가, 이후 조지 오스본 예비 재무장관의 선임경제고문 및 수석보좌관을 지냈다. 2013년 9월부터 2015년 5월까지 상업혁신기술부 차관을 지냈으며, 2015년부터 2016년까지 데이비드 캐머런 내각의 국무조정실 장관을 지냈다. 2016년 테리사 메이 총리가 취임한 이후 디지털문화부 장관으로 강등되었다가, 2018년 1월 개각 때 문화부 장관으로 임명되었다. (ko) Метью Джон Девід Генкок (англ. Matthew John David Hancock; нар. 2 жовтня 1978, Честер, Англія) — британський політик-консерватор. Член парламенту з 2010, державний міністр з ефективності і реформи цивільної служби і генеральний скарбник з 2015 до 2016. Міністр охорони здоров'я з липня 2018 до червня 2021. Подав у відставку після того, як британський таблоїд The Sun опублікував світлини, на яких Генкок цілувався з подругою, не дотримуючись соціального дистанціювання. Обоє мають свої сім'ї. (uk)
8744	dbpedia	3	24	https://www.thetimes.com/culture/tv-radio/article/who-is-real-matt-hancock-celebrity-sas-9ggtw2cx2	en	Inside the mind of Matt Hancock — by Westminster insiders	https://www.thetimes.com…C346&resize=1200	https://www.thetimes.com…C346&resize=1200	[ "https://www.thetimes.com/d/img/TimesBrandMark-748c3b1679.webp", "https://www.thetimes.com/d/img/TimesBrandMark-748c3b1679.webp", "https://www.thetimes.com/d/img/logos/times-white-small-f4ad00a748.png", "https://www.thetimes.com/imageserver/image/%2Fmethode%2Ftimes%2Fprod%2Fweb%2Fbin%2Faf2cba68-af23-4ac4-af57-b0b51988d321.jpg?crop=5000%2C2812%2C0%2C346&resize=360", "https://www.thetimes.com/imageserver/image/%2Fmethode%2Ftimes%2Fprod%2Fweb%2Fbin%2Fc30761ee-5ca7-11ee-88d6-eacc4268cc5d.jpg?crop=1500%2C844%2C0%2C0", "https://www.thetimes.com/imageserver/image/%2Fmethode%2Ftimes%2Fprod%2Fweb%2Fbin%2Fe39bc9e0-14bd-11ee-b768-bb6d328f2d92.jpg?crop=2149%2C1209%2C63%2C264", "https://www.thetimes.com/imageserver/image/%2Fmethode%2Fsundaytimes%2Fprod%2Fweb%2Fbin%2Ff5fc5018-cb58-11ed-94e6-b14cdf80e31b.jpg?crop=3500%2C1969%2C0%2C182", "https://www.thetimes.com/d/assets/dual-masthead-bcc5303ae7.png", "https://www.thetimes.com/d/assets/ipso-f7843bf2cd.png" ]	[]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[ "Sean O’Neill" ]	2023-10-20T12:15:21+00:00	As the former health secretary is on our screens again in another reality TV show, Sean O’Neill goes in search of the real Matt Hancock	en	/store/favicon-32x32.png		https://www.thetimes.com/culture/tv-radio/article/who-is-real-matt-hancock-celebrity-sas-9ggtw2cx2	Wendy Maisey wants to be an MP and has the makings of a good one. From a working-class background in Liverpool, she is a busy local councillor and a successful businesswoman who has been awarded an OBE. But google her name and very quickly you come across what she calls that “awkward video” with Matt Hancock. Filmed during a “flying visit” by the health secretary, as he then was, to a Warrington hospital, Maisey is talking to camera as Hancock edges uncomfortably close to her, staring intently. Maisey tries to shuffle to the side. Only after the clip exploded on social media (Hancock was described as “a golden retriever in disguise”) did Maisey watch it back and think, “Blimey, Matt, I didn’t realise you were
8744	dbpedia	2	87	https://www.jerseyeveningpost.com/morenews/uknews/2021/04/10/cameron-financier-and-hancock-discussed-nhs-payment-scheme-over-private-drink/	en	Cameron, financier and Hancock discussed NHS payment scheme over ‘private drink’	https://www.jerseyevenin…/placeholder.png	https://www.jerseyevenin…/placeholder.png	[ "https://d3gvyx4eg3tne0.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Jersey_Logo.png", "https://d3gvyx4eg3tne0.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Jersey_Logo.png", "https://placehold.jp/60/a1a1a1/ffffff/1171x780.png?text=Jersey%20Evening%20Post", "https://image.assets.pressassociation.io/v2/image/production/b1697460397ac0610ffa3dece9311a81Y29udGVudHNlYXJjaGFwaSwxNjE4MTMyMzg4/2.58076738.jpg?w=320 320w, https://image.assets.pressassociation.io/v2/image/production/b1697460397ac0610ffa3dece9311a81Y29udGVudHNlYXJjaGFwaSwxNjE4MTMyMzg4/2.58076738.jpg?w=640 640w, https://image.assets.pressassociation.io/v2/image/production/b1697460397ac0610ffa3dece9311a81Y29udGVudHNlYXJjaGFwaSwxNjE4MTMyMzg4/2.58076738.jpg?w=1280 1280w", "https://d3gvyx4eg3tne0.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Img38810678.jpg", "https://d3gvyx4eg3tne0.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Img38810456.jpg", "https://d3gvyx4eg3tne0.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Img38810424-1.jpg", "https://d3gvyx4eg3tne0.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Screenshot-2021-12-13-133213-1024x722.png", "https://d3gvyx4eg3tne0.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Jersey_Logo.png" ]	[]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[ "Newsdesk" ]	2021-04-10T00:00:00	David Cameron took scandal-hit financier Lex Greensill for a “private drink” with Health Secretary Matt Hancock to discuss a payment scheme later rolled out in the […]	en	https://d3gvyx4eg3tne0.c…avicon-32x32.png	Jersey Evening Post	https://www.jerseyeveningpost.com/morenews/uknews/2021/04/10/cameron-financier-and-hancock-discussed-nhs-payment-scheme-over-private-drink/	David Cameron took scandal-hit financier Lex Greensill for a “private drink” with Health Secretary Matt Hancock to discuss a payment scheme later rolled out in the NHS. The Sunday Times also reported that the Treasury reconsidered Mr Greensill’s application for an emergency coronavirus loan after the former prime minister messaged a senior adviser to Boris Johnson. Mr Cameron was said to have described the decision to exclude his employer’s firm, Greensill Capital, from the multibillion-pound scheme as “nuts” and pressed for the Chancellor to reconsider. “What we need is for Rishi (Sunak) to have a good look at this and ask officials to find a way of making it work,” Mr Cameron wrote last year. Questions were mounting over his efforts to secure access for the finance company, which later collapsed putting thousands of UK steelmaking jobs at risk. Mr Greensill was understood to have written to Mr Hancock’s office about the payment scheme in August 2019, copying in NHS England chairman Lord Prior, before the Health Secretary commissioned advice from officials. An ally of Mr Hancock confirmed a drink took place between Mr Cameron, the Health Secretary and the Australian financier in October 2019. Mr Greensill’s firm at the time wanted to introduce a flexible scheme to pay doctors and nurses either daily or weekly. NHS SBS, a joint venture between the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) and a French IT firm, went on to announce in October last year that Earnd, a mobile app that was then a division of Greensill, would be available free-of-charge to NHS employees to access their pay. Mr Hancock had referred Mr Greensill to work directly with the NHS rather than his department, according to the ally, who insisted the final decision to use the scheme was for local NHS employers. “Matt acted in entirely the correct way – he updated officials on the business that was discussed, as is appropriate,” the friend said. Mr Cameron is yet to comment publicly about the “growing scandal”, as Labour has called it. But a source close to the former prime minister said: “David Cameron was an enthusiastic champion of Greensill’s pay product, Earnd, and met with various people to discuss its rollout across the NHS.” A DHSC spokesman said: “The wellbeing of NHS staff is the top priority of the department and Health Secretary. “Our approach was and is that local NHS employers are best placed to decide how different pay flexibilities fit with their overall pay and reward offer for their staff.” Meanwhile, it was understood that Mr Cameron’s message to the Prime Minister’s adviser was forwarded on to the Treasury. But it could not be immediately confirmed whether the lobbying did lead to the Treasury reconsidering its move to reject the loan scheme application. A No 10 spokesman: “Throughout the pandemic, an immense number of businesses contacted Downing Street with representations; these were passed on to relevant departments.” This week, it emerged the Chancellor responded to private texts from Mr Cameron saying he had “pushed” officials to consider plans that could have helped Greensill in 2020. Labour called for Mr Sunak to “come out of hiding” and make a statement to Parliament about the “growing scandal”, and reiterated demands for an investigation. Shadow chief secretary to the treasury Bridget Phillipson said: “Every day brings fresh revelations about the culture of cronyism at the heart of this Conservative Government. “Through David Cameron, Greensill looks to have had the run of Government from Number 10 down, including access to millions of pounds of public money.” Labour MP Dame Margaret Hodge, a former chair of the Commons Public Accounts Committee, said: “We need an independent inquiry immediately. The whole scandal stinks.”
8744	dbpedia	0	71	https://hellorayo.co.uk/greatest-hits/norfolk/news/matt-hancock-covid-inquiry/	en	Former Health Secretary and West Suffolk MP Matt Hancock to appear before Covid Inquiry	https://cdn.apollo.audio…3000&resize=crop	https://cdn.apollo.audio…3000&resize=crop	[ "https://hellorayo.co.uk/tesla/static/icons/premium-crown.svg", "https://media.bauerradio.com/image/upload/c_crop,g_custom/v1598020265/brand_manager/stations/mudltdrtgxwpuydpio6b.svg", "https://hellorayo.co.uk/tesla/static/images/rayo-logo-with-name-white.svg", "https://media.bauerradio.com/image/upload/c_crop,g_custom/v1598020265/brand_manager/stations/mudltdrtgxwpuydpio6b.svg" ]	[]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[ "Dominic McGrath, PA Political Staff" ]	2023-06-27T05:35:38+00:00	Former Health Secretary Matt Hancock to appear before Covid inquiry	en	/tesla/static/favicons/rayo/favicon.svg	Greatest Hits Radio (Norfolk and North Suffolk)	https://hellorayo.co.uk/greatest-hits/norfolk/news/matt-hancock-covid-inquiry/	He'll be answering questions under oath West Suffolk MP Matt Hancock will become the latest high-profile politician to appear before the Covid-19 Inquiry, as hearings continue into Government preparedness for the pandemic. The former health secretary, who became one of the best-known politicians in the country as he helped steer the coronavirus response before being forced to quit in June 2021, will give evidence to Lady Hallett’s inquiry on Tuesday morning. His attendance at the inquiry comes after Chancellor Jeremy Hunt, another former health secretary, admitted that a “groupthink” helped lead to a “narrowness of thinking” that failed to expand pandemic preparedness beyond planning for a flu outbreak. On Monday, former deputy chief medical officer Dame Jenny Harries was quizzed on the capacity of the UK health system as well as the organisational reforms before the Covid outbreak. Mr Hancock, also known for his appearance last year on TV’s I’m A Celebrity, became health secretary in mid-2018 – but his political career was torpedoed after footage emerged in 2021 of his embrace with aide Gina Coladangelo. He was central to the Government’s pandemic era decision-making and messaging, with his own recollections of the period likely to be a crucial part of the inquiry. A leak of more than a 100,000 of his WhatsApp messages by journalist Isabel Oakeshott to the Daily Telegraph, many of which were published earlier this year, provided a glimpse into the inner workings of Government during the period. The West Suffolk MP, who will stand down at the next general election, has faced questions in the past about the Government policy on Covid testing and nursing homes. Former prime minister David Cameron, former chancellor George Osborne and chief medical officer Professor Sir Chris Whitty are all among those who have appeared before the committee so far.
8744	dbpedia	1	46	https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/06/british-prime-minister-candidates-replace-theresa-may.html	en	Who Will Replace Theresa May as Prime Minister?	https://compote.slate.co…x1040&offset=0x0	https://compote.slate.co…x1040&offset=0x0	[ "https://compote.slate.com/images/6783bcc2-983f-41b3-a524-a64fd9e94cae.jpeg?crop=1560%2C1040%2Cx0%2Cy0", "https://compote.slate.com/images/6783bcc2-983f-41b3-a524-a64fd9e94cae.jpeg?crop=1560%2C1040%2Cx0%2Cy0", "https://slate.com/media/components/onetrust-update/ccpa-icons/privacyoptions29x14.png", "https://sb.scorecardresearch.com/p?c1=2&c2=18406752&cv=3.9.1&cj=1", "https://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-fw53_-Tq3MNK1.gif" ]	[]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[ "Joshua Keating" ]	2019-06-05T16:00:31+00:00	Here are the candidates running to take over the fate of Brexit—and how good their odds are.	en	/favicon.ico	Slate Magazine	https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/06/british-prime-minister-candidates-replace-theresa-may.html	When Theresa May announced her resignation on May 24, the contest to replace her, which had been quietly going on for months, burst into the open. This isn’t a national election—given how the party is polling these days, no candidate would want that. It’s a contest to become leader of the Conservative Party and therefore prime minister. May will officially step down as leader of the conservatives on Friday but will stay on as prime minister until her replacement is chosen. There are 11 declared candidates, and a few more may still jump in. They have until Monday to decide whether to run. Conservative members of parliament will then whittle these down in a series of votes until there are just two. Then, the party membership will choose between those two. The party wants to have the whole thing wrapped up by late July, when Parliament will go on recess. Meanwhile, the clock is still ticking down to Oct. 31, the current deadline on which Britain is due to exit the EU. (It’s now been extended twice.) The candidates have a wide variety of proposals on Brexit, ranging from asking for an extension to calling a new referendum to just saying, To hell with it, and leaving the EU without a deal. And there are still some non-Brexit political issues to consider as well. Like a fun house–mirror version of the U.S. Democratic primary, the field is a diverse group with some strong personalities as well as a lot of indistinguishable white guys. Here’s a look at the currently declared contenders, grouped by their degree of Brexitiness. Odds are from the betting house Ladbrokes as of Wednesday. Extremely Brexity Boris Johnson Odds: 4-5 Most recent job: foreign minister Trump on the Thames? The voluble, mop-topped journalist–turned–London mayor–turned–foreign minister, who got an endorsement from Donald Trump this week, is currently the front-runner, according to most pundits and betting markets. He says he will try to negotiate a new withdrawal agreement with the EU before Oct. 31 but will pull Britain out of the EU on that date, with a deal or without one. As a leading campaigner for Leave during the original Brexit referendum who quit May’s Cabinet over disagreements about her withdrawal agreement, he is considered an arch Brexiteer, though his views on other social and economic issues are a bit more moderate than others in that camp. The case for Boris is that the party needs its own brash populist leader to push back against the Nigel Farages and Jeremy Corbyns of the world. The case against him is that he’s a rank opportunist, willing to do or say anything to gain power, regardless of the consequences for the country. Johnson is extremely popular with the party rank-and-file, so he will almost certainly win if he makes it to the final two. Unfortunately for him, many of his colleagues hate him. Andrea Leadsom Odds: 8-1 Most recent job: leader of the House of Commons Leadsom was the runner-up to Theresa May in 2016, the latest time the Tories had a leadership contest—she stumbled after making a controversial remark that having children gave her more of a stake in the country’s future than the childless May—and has thrown her hat into the ring again. The former investment banker has had a number of Cabinet positions in David Cameron’s and May’s governments. She stuck it out with May longer than most of the other Brexiteers but quit as leader of the House of Commons on May 22, just two days before May announced her own resignation. Leadsom might be the hardest Brexiteer of them all. She has declared May’s withdrawal agreement dead and isn’t even interested in renegotiating it. She instead favors a “managed no-deal” scenario in which Britain would seek a series of side agreements on key issues with Europe after leaving. The EU has said it’s not interested in making such deals, but Leadsom is still probably more realistic than anyone promising they can renegotiate everything by Oct. 31. Dominic Raab Odds: 20-1 Most recent job: Brexit secretary Raab, who was theoretically overseeing May’s negotiations with the EU, quit in protest after May released her withdrawal agreement in November. (He confusingly later voted for it as an MP.) His current line on Brexit is similar to Johnson’s—he will try to renegotiate the withdrawal agreement but is prepared to leave without a deal if he can’t. He has gone further, however, by suggesting he would overrule Parliament to make a no-deal Brexit happen. Raab’s right-wing views—he favors cutting corporate tax rates and is open to privatizing some state-run schools—likely make him less palatable to Tory moderates than Johnson. He has created controversy in the past by saying food bank users are probably not “languishing in poverty” and has described feminists as “obnoxious bigots.” Esther McVey Odds: 100-1 Most recent job: secretary of state for work and pensions The pro-Leave McVey quit May’s Cabinet at the same time as Raab and has seemingly angled for leadership since then, launching a Blue Collar Conservativism campaign group aimed at winning back working-class voters, complete with a pub tour. Her candidacy has been a little rough so far, though. She’s been mocked for suggesting there could be an “invisible border” between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. (This was a clumsy way of describing the vague “technological fixes” for the Irish border problem that are part of a lot of candidates Brexit plans.) She’s also faced backlash for defending the rights of parents to pull their kids out of classes that discuss LGBTQ relationships. Somewhat Brexity Michael Gove Odds: 5-1 Current job: environment secretary With the party deeply split over Brexit, Gove might end up being the ultimate compromise candidate. As justice secretary and a close ally of then–Prime Minister David Cameron, Gove was one of the most prominent Leave advocates along with Johnson ahead of the original referendum. But he quickly adopted a “softer” stance than most of his counterparts, and he stuck with May while nearly all the other prominent Brexiteers quit her Cabinet. Now, he reportedly says he’d be prepared to delay Brexit until 2020 in order to avoid a “no deal” and has pledged to allow EU citizens who lived in the U.K. before the referendum to apply for U.K. citizenship free of charge. For what it’s worth, Trump reportedly asked to meet with him, along with Johnson. Jeremy Hunt Odds: 8-1 Current job: foreign secretary Of the candidates who were Remainers during the referendum—he was health secretary at the time—Hunt probably has the best chance of becoming prime minister. He now supports leaving the EU and says he will assemble a new negotiating team—including hard-line Brexiteers and leaders from Northern Ireland and Scotland—to get a better deal than May’s. He has said that backing a no-deal Brexit would be “political suicide” for his party but also that he would back it “with a heavy heart” if necessary. As foreign minister, he has been actively involved in talks to reach a cease-fire in Yemen but has faced criticism for defending British arms sales to Saudi Arabia. Sajid Javid Odds: 33-1 Current job: home secretary Javid was an extremely lukewarm Remainer during the referendum but is now thought of as a Brexiteer. He’s in the leave-on-Oct.-31-no-matter-what camp and advocates preparing for a no-deal. Javid, the son of Pakistani immigrants who would be the U.K.’s first nonwhite prime minister, was considered a top-tier candidate early on, but his star has faded. He has recently defended the decision to strip the citizenship of a teenager who traveled to Syria to marry an ISIS fighter. In response to an increase in knife crime, he has called for more of a public health approach but has also backed giving police more stop-and-frisk powers. Apparently home secretary isn’t a job you take in the hopes of avoiding controversy. Matt Hancock Odds: 50-1 Current job: health secretary Matt Hancock, who is a different person than Mark Harper, wants to get the U.K. out of the EU by Oct. 31 but is against a no-deal Brexit. He has a somewhat more detailed plan than his competitors, involving a comprehensive free-trade deal with Europe and forming an “Irish border council” to help resolve the status of the border. He’s been praised by the Guardian for having “the seemingly basic virtues of being apparently competent and broadly similar to a normal human being.” Good job, Matt. Mark Harper Odds: 100-1 Most recent job: minister for disabled people Mark Harper, who is definitely not Matt Hancock, was not in the Cabinet during the time Brexit was negotiated. He stepped down as immigration minister in 2014 when it turned out his house cleaner did not have a valid visa, then served as disabilities minister for less than a year. He says this is an advantage, since, “I don’t think we should take the people who were responsible for where we got to now and assume they’ve got the solutions for how we move forward.” The former accountant backed Remain in 2016 and hasn’t ruled out no-deal but says he will ask for a “short, focused extension” past Oct. 31, calling proposals to negotiate a new deal before then unrealistic. They are unrealistic, but it seems like no one really wants to hear that right now. Not very Brexity Rory Stewart Odds: 25-1 Current job: international development secretary The former British foreign officer (and Slate contributor) is best known for his bestselling books describing his travels in Iraq and Afghanistan. He was given his first Cabinet role in May and almost immediately began campaigning for prime minister. He was a Remainer in 2016 who then became an enthusiastic public advocate (sometimes too enthusiastic) for May’s withdrawal agreement. He opposes a no-deal Brexit and has said he wouldn’t work under Johnson because of the latter’s stance on the issue. The young, eccentric Stewart has garnered some excitement with his social media–heavy campaign but is still considered a long shot. He’s often compared to Lawrence of Arabia for his youthful feats of derring-do, but these days he seems more like a British Mayor Pete. Sam Gyimah Odds: 200-1 Most recent job: universities minister
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News	https://uk.news.yahoo.com/matt-hancock-says-david-camerons-return-to-government-is-brilliant-decision-145035754.html	Former health secretary Matt Hancock has hailed David Cameron's return to politics as "superb for Britain" Rishi Sunak's appointment of Cameron as foreign secretary is likely to be controversial given his Brexit legacy, and the fact he is unelected The prime minister's Cabinet reshuffle comes after the sacking of home secretary Suella Braverman, who was accused of stoking tensions ahead of Armistice Day protests Matt Hancock has hailed Rishi Sunak's appointment of David Cameron as foreign secretary as a "brilliant decision". In a post on X, formerly Twitter, the former health secretary said: "Superb for Britain - bringing his experience to guide us through difficult times." "Excellent for the @Conservatives, showing @RishiSunak will fight the election on the centre ground. Bravo." Hancock is not the only one who is glad to see such an experienced politician return to the fold, with former prime minister Theresa May tweeting: "Congratulations to @David_Cameron on his return to government. "His immense experience on the international stage will be invaluable at this time of great uncertainty in our world. Looking forward to working together again!" Cameron's appointment is likely to be controversial as many ardent Remainers are still angry at the former prime minister - a self-proclaimed Remainer - calling the Brexit referendum that his side would go on to lose. Others are uneasy with the fact that having resigned as an MP after the 2016 referendum result, he has been made a lord in order for him to fill a ministerial position. Recommended reading David Cameron latest news: Ex-PM named foreign secretary as Suella Braverman sacked in reshuffle (Yahoo News) TV presenters covering Braverman’s sacking burst into laughter at David Cameron's appearance in middle of reshuffle (Yahoo News) How happy are you that David Cameron is back? Poll of the week (Yahoo News) Hancock's praise of Cameron may not be seen as a ringing endorsement, with the former health secretary becoming unpopular with the public after he was found to have broken the Covid social distancing rules he imposed on the country during the pandemic. More recently, his reputation has taken a beating in the Covid inquiry, which heard how top civil servant Lord Sedwill urged Boris Johnson to sack him to “to save lives and protect the NHS”. Cameron has received praise from some people who've managed to keep hold of their Cabinet roles, however, with transport secretary Mark Harper describing his appointment as "an excellent move". “I was in David Cameron’s government as his chief whip. He’s a team player, hugely experienced," the minister said. “Given the challenges facing us with the war in Ukraine (and) what’s going on in the Middle East, having a really experienced person coming in as foreign secretary, I think, is an excellent move. He’s a real team player and I look forward to seeing him around the Cabinet table.” When was David Cameron made a lord? Some are uncomfortable that Cameron, who resigned as MP for Witney in 2016, can be appointed to such a major Cabinet position despite being unaccountable to the electorate. In order for Sunak to do this, he had to give Cameron a lifelong peerage in the House of Lords, whose members can also serve in the Cabinet. Confirming Cameron's appointment in a statement on Monday, Number 10 said: "The King has been pleased to approve the appointment of the Rt Hon David Cameron as secretary of state for foreign, Commonwealth and development affairs. "His Majesty has also been pleased to confer the dignity of a Barony of the United Kingdom for life upon David Cameron. The Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP remains as Chancellor of the Exchequer." Read more: How can David Cameron be a minister when he isn't an MP and what is his salary? Criticising the move, Green Party MP Caroline Lucas said: "How are elected MPs to directly question a Foreign Sec who can’t stand at Commons dispatch box? "Are major foreign policy statements to be made in unelected House of Lords now? This is unacceptable degrading of key office of state and Commons must have primacy." The Electoral Reform Society, which wants to replace the Lords with a smaller elected chamber, added: "No Prime Minister should be able to appoint anyone they like to the major offices of state, simply by making them a Lord." What does the foreign secretary do? The foreign secretary has overall responsibility for the work of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO). Some of Cameron's main responsibilities in his new role will include managing relations with foreign countries and governments, promoting British interests abroad and handling matters related to Commonwealth countries and UK overseas territories. The foreign secretary is also responsible for the work of GCHQ and the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) - also known as MI6 - while the home secretary is responsible for the Security Service (MI5). Who was the previous foreign secretary? Before Cameron, the previous foreign secretary was James Cleverly, who is now stepping into Suella Braverman's role as home secretary. On Monday Sunak sacked Braverman, who was accused of stoking tensions with inflammatory rhetoric, which was blamed for clashes between police, pro-Palestine protesters and far-right counter-demonstrators in London over the weekend. Cleverly faces a number of challenges in his new job, including an imminent ruling on the lawfulness of the government’s plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda, and will have to deal with the fallout if Number 10 loses. In a statement on X, in which he did not congratulate Cameron for taking his old job, Cleverly said: "It is an honour to be appointed as home secretary. The goal is clear. My job is to keep people in this country safe." Cameron will face a number of global crises demanding his attention as he steps into his new role, including the ongoing war in Ukraine and the Israel-Hamas conflict. As recently as Thursday, Cleverly was in Saudi Arabia discussing efforts to prevent fighting in Gaza escalating into a wider regional conflict, with Middle Eastern foreign ministers, and Cameron will face an immediate task of carrying on that diplomatic effort. Meanwhile Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky has warned of a “winter onslaught” from Russia that will require further support from the West.
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"https://assets.glide.mailplus.co.uk/prod/assets/m-logo.a8bc6685145e622248b40f0c4541e4c4.png" ]	[]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[]	2022-02-28T00:00:00	Matt Hancock news. All the latest updates, coronavirus briefings and announcements from the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care.	en	https://assets.glide.mai…a90e9663ac43.png		https://www.mailplus.co.uk/topics/matt-hancock	Of course Matt Hancock stripped to his pants to take a dip in the Serpentine in Hyde Park the other day, and he actually turned and smiled at the camera! Dear God, if he were a woman, he would have undressed behind a great big towel – wriggle, wriggle, wriggle – then crouched and scurried into the water in case anyone saw cellulite/unwaxed shin/chipped pedicure. He would have emerged, if a woman, slightly crouching in case anyone saw his tummy, then done a reverse striptease – tug, tug, tug – under the towel again. At the end of all this, if a woman, he wouldn’t be thinking, ‘Thank God I didn’t drown’ but ‘Thank the Lord no one saw my buttocks’. MATT HANCOCK, the Health Secretary, simply had to go. Sometimes Ministers are forced out for contrived or barely relevant reasons. This was not one of those times. It is no good saying politicians’ personal lives are not the public’s business - because politicians are making the personal behaviour of the public their business. And none forced his way into the private lives of the people more than Mr Hancock. I’M NOT sure how you are supposed to choose, when you are told your dad has a 50-50 chance of living but only one of his two children can go and see him, and then only for an hour. Who claims visiting rights? The older child? The younger? Toss a coin for it? Rock, paper, scissors? Best of three? A quick sibling wrestle in the hospital car park? ONE of the many times Matt Hancock’s name has lately gone ‘viral’ on the internet came when Kay Burley asked him in September whether a new round of Covid restrictions had made casual sex illegal. FROM his love bunker deep in the Department of Health, Matt Hancock has been laying down the Covid social-distancing laws since the pandemic began. For millions of us, there has been no escape from his strictures. Listen to him go on! 12pm: Matt Hancock today insisted that Boris Johnson’s criticism of him as ‘hopeless’ is not embarrassing. The Health Secretary said the remarks ‘feel like ancient history’, adding: ‘At times of stress, people say all sorts of things in private.’ MATT Hancock was on the rack last night, after struggling to deny a claim that he had lied about care home testing at the height of the pandemic. 5pm: Boris Johnson and Matt Hancock have poured fresh doubts on the June 21 easing of restrictions as they warned it was still too early to confirm whether the next stage in the roadmap would go ahead.
8744	dbpedia	1	4	https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Hancock	en	Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia	https://upload.wikimedia…ck_MP_crop_2.jpg	https://upload.wikimedia…ck_MP_crop_2.jpg	[ "https://simple.wikipedia.org/static/images/icons/wikipedia.png", "https://simple.wikipedia.org/static/images/mobile/copyright/wikipedia-wordmark-en.svg", "https://simple.wikipedia.org/static/images/mobile/copyright/wikipedia-tagline-simple.svg", "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/Official_portrait_of_Rt_Hon_Matt_Hancock_MP_crop_2.jpg/220px-Official_portrait_of_Rt_Hon_Matt_Hancock_MP_crop_2.jpg", "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Crystal_Clear_app_Login_Manager.png/20px-Crystal_Clear_app_Login_Manager.png", "https://login.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAutoLogin/start?type=1x1", "https://simple.wikipedia.org/static/images/footer/wikimedia-button.svg", "https://simple.wikipedia.org/static/images/footer/poweredby_mediawiki.svg" ]	[]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[ "Contributors to Wikimedia projects" ]	2019-05-29T20:09:00+00:00		en	/static/apple-touch/wikipedia.png		https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Hancock	Matthew John David Hancock (born 2nd October 1978) is a British politician. He has been the MP of West Suffolk since 2010.[2] He was Secretary of State for Health and Social Care from 2018 until 2021. Hancock was suspended from the Conservative Party in November 2022. Political roles [change \| change source] On 9 July 2018, after the promotion of Jeremy Hunt to Foreign Secretary, Hancock was named Secretary of State for Health and Social Care.[3] On 25 May 2019, Hancock announced his plans to run for leadership of the Conservative Party.[4] He withdrew from the race on 14 June shortly after winning only twenty votes on the first ballot.[5] In May 2021, Hancock was filmed kissing an assistant during the COVID-19 pandemic. He also attended Boris Johnson's party during the national quarantine. Both of these events angered many people. He announced his resignation as Secretary for Health on 26 June 2021,[6] with Sajid Javid taking over as Health Secretary.[7] In November 2022, Matt Hancock was announced as a contestant on I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here (a show where celebrities live in a jungle). He was suspended from the Conservative Party because of this. Hancock made it to the final and finished in third place out of 12 celebrities. He will also be a contestant on SAS: Who Dares Wins. Matt Hancock released a book named Pandemic Diaries.
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Read the transcript of the full briefing here.	en	/cms-assets/favicon.svg	Rev	https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/uk-downing-street-coronavirus-press-conference-with-matt-hancock-transcript-may-27	Matt Hancock: (00:00) … speed on some new developments in our response and start with the latest data. The latest data show that the number of cases of coronavirus are rising. Yesterday, we saw 3,542 new cases, the highest since the 12th of April. The variant first identified in India, so-called B1617.2 is still spreading. And the latest estimates are that more than half and potentially as many as three quarters of all new cases are now of this variant. As we set out our roadmap, we always expected cases to rise. We must remain vigilant. The aim of course, is to break the link to hospitalizations and deaths, so that cases alone no longer require stringent restrictions on people’s lives. The critical thing to watch is the link from the number of cases to how many people end up in hospital. The increase in cases remains focused in hotspots, and we’re doing all we can to tackle this variant, wherever it flares up. Over the past six months, we now have built a huge testing capacity at our disposal, and we’re using this to surge testing into the eight hotspot areas. And in other places where cases are lower, but rising. Matt Hancock: (01:43) In the hotspot areas, we’re surging vaccines to, for those who are eligible. In Bolton, for instance, we’ve done 17,147 vaccinations in the last week. All of the available evidence shows that the best way to protect yourself, your loved ones, and your community against this new variant is to get both jabs. Of the 49 people who are in hospital with COVID in Bolton, only five have had both vaccine doses. And earlier today, I spoke to Fiona Noden the chief executive of Bolton Hospital, and her message is very clear. The hospital is functioning well and is open to all those who need it, but people need to be careful and cautious and follow the rules and take personal responsibility to help to slow the spread. Matt Hancock: (02:43) She also said that, and I quote, “I dread to think where we’d be without the vaccine.” So please ask people to come forward and get the jab. So when you get the call, get the jab and make sure you come forward for your second dose, so you can get the maximum possible protection. The vaccine is severing the link between cases and hospitalizations and deaths from coronavirus. This week’s ONS data showed that three and four adults now have COVID-19 antibodies, including over 90% of people age 50 and above. And this means that the vast majority of those most vulnerable to this virus have of that protection that antibodies provide. But I want to see those rates climb further. Having three and four adults with antibodies is important, but there’s more still to do. And today’s data from Public Health England show why this is important. They have estimated that over the last week, the vaccination program has prevented a further 200 deaths and prevented a further 600 people from going into hospital. Matt Hancock: (03:54) Bringing these figures together, it means that in total 13, 200 deaths have been prevented and 39,700 hospitalizations by the vaccination program. So the case for getting the jab has never been stronger and we’re putting jabs into arms as quickly as humanly possible. We’ve given in fact, 4.1 million vaccines over the past week, which is the highest figure since March. And I’m absolutely delighted to see how this is rolling out in different parts of the country. Thanks to the incredible hard work of colleagues across the Midlands, including Andy Street, the mayor of the west Midlands, and NHS colleagues right across the Midlands. And so many others, we have today hit the milestone of 10 million vaccines being delivered across the Midlands. Matt Hancock: (04:44) In the Southwest of England, where I was earlier this week, visiting vaccination centers, as far flung as the [inaudible 00:04:51], over 5 million doses have been delivered. Three quarters of adults in the Southwest have now had their first dose and over half have had both doses. This is the highest proportion in the country. Matt Hancock: (05:05) All in all, this rapid progress in the rollout of vaccines in this race between the virus and the vaccines. This rapid rollout means that yesterday we were able to open up vaccinations to all those age 30 and above. And I would urge everybody to come forward. Next week, I’ll be hosting G7 health ministers at the Health Minister Summit in Oxford. Oxford has been at the cutting edge of science during this pandemic. They led the recovery trial, that uncovered treatments that have saved millions of lives across the world. And of course, they developed the Oxford vaccine, which is Britain’s gift to the world. That has now been deployed without any profit margin to 450 million doses across the world. Matt Hancock: (05:57) Today, I can update you that half a million people here have now signed up to our vaccine research registry. The vaccine research registry is about having a group of people who are prepared to take part in clinical trials. And they’ve signed up to say that they are ready and willing to take part. And this is important because our world-leading position in the discovery of new medicines relies on these clinical trials. And I’m incredibly grateful to the half a million people who are all playing their part. Today, I can announce further that together with SAPI, the global vaccination effort, we’ve funded the expansion of another important Oxford study, which is the first in the world to look at whether different vaccines can safely be used as part of a two dose regime using different vaccines. And if they can be mixed and they can be mixed without reducing effectiveness or indeed mixed and lead to an increase in effectiveness, then this could have a huge impact on speeding up vaccination campaigns all the way across the world and getting more people the protection that’s needed from this deadly virus. Matt Hancock: (07:09) It has the potential to transform lives globally. And it is brilliant, frankly, to see that once again, research, which is taking place on our shores and at our universities is leading the way. One of the most promising areas of new research is into antivirals. The thing about antivirals is that you can give them to people in an area of an outbreak, for instance, to reduce their chance of catching COVID if they come into contact with somebody who has got COVID. So for instance, you can use antivirals to help suppress an outbreak. These antivirals are not yet approved. And the prime minister has set a goal of having two available later this year. Antivirals can treat people early, preventing mild disease from turning into something much more serious, and they can be used as a prophylactic, preventing the virus from spreading. Matt Hancock: (08:04) I’m absolutely determined that our antivirals taskforce will channel the same positive can do collaborative spirit that worked so successfully for vaccines. And I’m pleased to be able to announce that Eddie Gray has been appointed as chair. Eddie brings a wealth of experience from his time at GSK and at Dynavax. And I know that Eddie will make a huge contribution at this time of national need. Our response to this pandemic is a big team effort and Eddie’s leadership will help make that team stronger still. It’s this team, this collective endeavor, which you’ve been a part of, that’s got us this far, but the pandemic is not yet over. So please keep doing your bit. Remember the basics. Hands, face, space, and fresh air. Get your rapid regular tests. And when you get the call, get both jabs. I’ll now hand over to Dr. Harries to talk through the latest data in a bit more detail. Dr. Harries: (09:10) Thank you, secretary of state. Could I have the first slide please? So what we can see on this slide, which we’ve seen before is the number of people, whether this be bilateral flow test or PCR tests testing positive for COVID-19 in the UK. And of course, we can see that there has been a sustained and sharp decline in cases from a peak of over 60,000 in the middle of January on towards May. If I could have the next slide, please. Dr. Harries: (09:40) But if we just look at the end of that tail-end of the chart, what you can see here is a suggestion of an upward rise in cases, which the secretary of state just referred to. So these are seven day rolling averages. And the numbers here are up to 2,773 cases on that rolling average, but you can see the latest data at 3,500. Now, the interpretation of this needs careful consideration, because as we’ve described, there is surge testing going out into those areas, which actually have the highest number of cases. Dr. Harries: (10:14) And so, we are actively finding many cases, which is a good thing. We can break the chains of transmission, but nevertheless, we do know that in most cases across the UK now, the new variant is taking… The variant, which originated in India, is taking a place of the 117 variant. So something that we need to watch really carefully. But if we go to the next slide, then we can look at how that translates into people turning up in hospital and being admitted with serious illness. And what we can see here is the, again, the hospital bed occupation for patients with COVID-19 has dropped right down very rapidly. Following to a large extent, the end of the lockdown measures, significant lockdown measures. But also of course at the same time- Dr. Harries: (11:03) … significant lockdown measures, but also of course, at the same time that the vaccination program has really been pushed out strongly. So on the 25th of May, we can see that there were 915 people in hospital with COVID. Whereas, if we go right back to middle of January at the peak, there were around four and a half thousand admissions every day. And we’re just going to look on the next side at the tail end of that curve. Dr. Harries: (11:25) And in contrast currently to the data that we saw on actual numbers of cases, we can see that the patients admitted to hospital has continued to decline or flatten off, but we’re not seeing a sharp increase in cases in hospital admissions. And then if we go on to the next slide, sadly, we can see that curve for the number of people who have died within 28 days of a positive COVID case. And again, back in January at the peak, that was suddenly over 1000 a day. And when you look at the tail end of this graph as well, you can see that the most recent seven-day average is just eight deaths. All of them, very sad, but a significant decrease. And these are predominantly in older people who have not been vaccinated. Dr. Harries: (12:19) If you go on to the next slide, please, we can see that sticking along. You can see that as usual, we have a variation in reporting of the deaths. Often they will be low at the weekend and rise in the week, so it’s important to look at the recent average rolling rate, but the seven day average is now eight deaths per day. And then I think on the final slide, if we then just look at our vaccination rates, what we can see here is the blue line, those who’ve had a first dose only, and then catching it very rapidly, or those who’ve had a second dose, and this is now over 60 million individuals. And as the Secretary of State has said, the latest evidence suggests that particularly in relation to the variant first identified from India, that it is that second dose which is really important. So we’re looking to make sure that that orange, yellow bar keeps continuing upward. So everybody go and get your jabs. Matt Hancock: (13:14) Thank you very much, Dr. Harries. The first questions we’ll turn to are questions from the public. And the first one is from Janet from Liverpool, by video. Janet: (13:27) Hi. Given the EU are going to relax the rules for fully vaccinated visitors by allowing us then with a vaccine passport and with no PCR or lateral flow test requirements, when can we expect the UK to do the same for returning UK citizens? Thank you. Matt Hancock: (13:45) Thank you, Janet. An important question, and we’ve set out the principles of having international travel, conducted in a safe way through the red, amber, and green list. So of course, right now you can travel to a green list country, whether or not you’ve been vaccinated, in fact. And there’s of course, a testing regime because we are vigilant at the border and want to make sure that we don’t see a big increase in the number of cases coming from any of the green list countries. But at the moment, they’re very low in the green list countries, as they are here. And then obviously we have more stringent rules for the amber and red lists countries where people shouldn’t be traveling for holiday. So that’s the approach that we’re taking. Matt Hancock: (14:34) I’ve seen the proposals that the EU have put forward in terms of vaccinations. At the moment, not everybody has been vaccinated, of course, and not all adults have been offered the jab, only everybody age 30 and over. But we do want to make sure that there is a route to safe international travel in the future. That’s what the global travel task force has been working on. Something I’ve worked with the transport secretary, the home secretary and the prime minister on. But at the moment, it is the red, amber, and green approach that guides us. And I think that’s the right approach because it means that when a country is safe, a very, very low number of cases, no signs of significant new variants, then we can have relatively straightforward travel, albeit with those tests, which are incredibly important. But for countries which are more at risk, we can take a more stringent approach. The next question is from Pete, from Darby, also by video Pete: (15:42) With each new variant, the effectiveness of existing vaccines becomes less and less. So with the Indian variant spreading and now a new variant of concern in Yorkshire, why is the government allowing lockdown relaxation to continue when most of those who spread the virus have not yet even had one vaccination? Matt Hancock: (16:04) Thanks, Pete. It’s an important question. I’m going to ask Dr. Harries to set out the clinical view from the health security point of view. But what I’d say, first and foremost, is obviously we are working as fast as we can to get people to have both jabs. It’s very important, and thankfully the uptake is very high. But the second thing is that we monitor these new variants really, really carefully to check the effectiveness of the vaccines against them. Matt Hancock: (16:39) Now, thankfully, the effectiveness of the vaccines against the variant first identified in India that you mentioned, after two jabs does appear to be effectively the same as against the old B.1.1.7, or the Kent variant as it was called. And that means that we can have confidence in the strategy that we have and the strategy that has been working. But we’ve, of course, got to be vigilant to the number of cases and critically how the number of cases translates into people that end up in hospital or sadly dying. And so the approach we take is just to be absolutely transparent about all of this data, set it all out, as Dr. Harries just has done the latest data, and answer as many questions as we can about it as fully as we can. And I’m sure Dr. Harries is going to improve on my answer right now. Dr. Harries: (17:37) Thank you, Secretary of State. The vaccine effectiveness prior to the 617.2 becoming the predominant one was around 80 to 90% for both vaccines, once you’d had second doses, and about 50% for the first. And the good news from the report, which Public Health England published at the weekend, was that actually we’re seeing very, very strong vaccine effectiveness after the second dose for both the vaccines. Now it’s around 80 to 90% from the Pfizer. It’s a little bit lower perhaps than against the Kent variant. And at the moment, the data suggests that the AstraZeneca one might be a little bit lower than, again, against the Kent variant, around 60%. But it’s really important that those studies, they’re quite early ones with quite wide confidence levels, so high degrees of uncertainty. And as we go forward with more cases and more numbers, they will become clear. Dr. Harries: (18:31) And we’re already starting to see a signal that the AstraZeneca effectiveness is rising in the second dose. So there is a really important message here. It says, actually, these are good, but as Peter has pointed out, we do have to be really, really vigilant. And going back to the first answer around travel, it’s why actually the testing for travelers coming to the country is so important and the genomic work that we now do, because we are not only assessing the risk to UK residents and continuously searching for new variants, but we’re actually helping the rest of the world understand where those variants are at the moment. Matt Hancock: (19:08) Thank you very much, Dr. Harries. Next question is from Laura Kuenssberg at the BBC. Laura Kuenssberg: (19:14) Thank you, Secretary of State. It was common knowledge last year that there were terrible problems in care homes. Can you still stand there today and say it’s true that you protected care homes from the start? And did you, or did you not tell Downing Street that people leaving care homes would be tested before they… sorry, people leaving hospitals would be tested before they went back to care homes? Matt Hancock: (19:36) Thanks very much, Laura, we worked as hard as we could to protect people who live in care homes. And of course, those who live in care homes are some of the most vulnerable to this disease because by its nature, it attacks and has more of an impact on older people. Matt Hancock: (19:55) Now, when it comes to the testing of people as they left hospital and went into care homes, we committed to building the testing capacity to allow that to happen. Of course, it then takes time to build testing capacity. And in fact, one of the critical things we did was set the hundred thousand target back then to make sure we built that testing capacity, and it was very effective in doing so. And then we were able to introduce the policy of testing everybody before going to care homes. But we could only do that once we have the testing capacity, of which I had to build, because we didn’t have it in this country from the start. We started with a capacity of less than 2000 in March last year and got to a hundred thousand tests a day. And we set all of this out at the time in public documents. It’s all a matter of public record. And I mean, we work closely together on it, Jenny. Dr. Harries: (20:56) I think I might just add to that, from a professional perspective. I think the testing is clearly important. And as secretary status has noted, we have built a lot of capacity. This is all readily available now. We do a random million tests a day. But I think actually one of the things that sometimes gets forgotten in some of the conversations about testing is the really important thing is not testing says you have a problem, the intervention is very much about isolation. So when an individual leaves, whether it be a hospital setting, the guidance is very much about ensuring that there is appropriate infection prevention control, both in the care home setting, but actually in separating that individual from others because the test only gives you the result on the day. The really important thing is to be able to be sure that a patient doesn’t become symptomatic and be able to transmit infection for the subsequent incubation period. So from an interventional perspective, that is critical. Testing is really helpful. And I think the only other thing I would say is it’s, the elderly and the vulnerable in residence- Dr. Harries: (22:03) … the elderly who are vulnerable in residential settings have been a focus, actually, of a care subgroup in the Sage modeling group. Actually, I chaired that group specifically to try and understand precisely where the risks were predominantly in residents going into care homes and because of the very high infection rates, and there were two pieces of work commissioned around that. Although the data is quite complex to interpret, it was very clear at the end of this work that there are different ways for the virus to come into care homes and it can come from a hospital discharge, but that is definitely not the majority route of entry. It’s coming as community cases rise and care workers are going in and out as they do, because we need them to provide care. It’s coming in with community rates. We see that with schools as well. I think it’s just about really looking at the evidence of where transmission occurs, which is important. Matt Hancock: (23:00) Thanks very much. Laura, next question is from Carl Dineen from ITV. Speaker 1: (23:05) [inaudible 00:23:05]. Carl Dineen: (23:07) Secretary of State, you’ve explained why you didn’t test everyone going from hospital to care home, but the charge from Dominic Cummings is actually quite specific. I’d like to try again on that. Did you tell the prime minister that everyone going from hospital to care home would be tested or is Dominic Cummings not telling the truth on that? Matt Hancock: (23:28) Of course, we committed, and I committed, to getting the policy in place, but it took time to build the testing. We didn’t start with a big testing system in the UK, and then we built that testing system. That’s why the 100,000 target was so important because it really accelerated the availability of testing because when you don’t have much testing, we had to prioritize it according to clinical need. That was the approach that we took. In fact, we set all of this out at the time. But it is important, in terms of looking back on it, that what we had to do was build the testing capacity because there simply wasn’t at the start of the pandemic that testing capacity in place. We had to put it in place, and that’s the action that I took. Matt Hancock: (24:27) Thanks very much. The next question is from Beth Rigby at Sky. Beth Rigby: (24:32) Thank you, Secretary of State. Just to follow up on that, and specifically Mr. Cummings said yesterday that you categorically said in the cabinet room in March that people were going to be tested before going back into care homes. Mr. Cummings went on to say that he and the prime minister subsequently found out that hadn’t happened. He said far from putting a shield around people, they were sent back to care homes untested. Just to be clear, did you make the statement in March that they would be tested before going back to care homes and that didn’t turn out to be true because you didn’t have the testing system in place? Is that what really happened? Matt Hancock: (25:13) No. Look, there’ll be a time when we go back over all this in great detail, but my recollection of events is that I committed to delivering that testing for people going from hospital into care homes when we could do it. I then went away and built the testing capacity for all sorts of reasons and all sorts of uses including this one and then delivered on the commitment that I made. That’s a kind of normal way of how you get things done in government. You work out what needs to happen. You commit to making it happen. You go away and deliver on that commitment, and then you can put the policy in place. Matt Hancock: (25:58) There’ll be a time when we can go through all of this in greater detail. The most important thing right now is that we’ve still got a pandemic to handle and to manage and hence the announcements that we’re making today on vaccination and the work that we’re doing to try to make sure we keep this epidemic under control. Matt Hancock: (26:17) Next questions, Pippa Crerar from the Mirror. Beth Rigby: (26:20) … people back. Am I still? Sending people back to care homes untested did happen during April, and is that your biggest regret in this pandemic? Matt Hancock: (26:33) Well, the thing is, Beth, on that, I mean, I’ve answered this question many, many times. On that, because we didn’t have the testing capacity at the start of the pandemic, it wasn’t possible. What I am very proud of is that we built that testing capacity, but it took time, right? It took me setting this target, which people didn’t think I was going to meet, and because of the team effort, we did meet that target and then we had the testing available to be able to put the policy in place. Matt Hancock: (27:08) I think that’s how you get things done, and that’s how we’re still getting things done. For instance, now the big, big drive is on making sure that we get the vaccine roll out done and there our goal is to make sure it’s offered to all adults by the end of July. We’re on track for that target too. Next question, Pippa Crerar. Pippa? Pippa Crear: (27:35) Health Secretary, we’ve spoken to families today who lost their loved ones to COVID last spring after patients were discharged back into their care homes without being tested. One said she cried when she heard Dominic Cummings testimony. She said, “I will not be the only one crying because it reminds you of the disaster, particularly when he was talking about not having a plan for care homes.” Another who lost her mom told us, “Nothing he said surprised me at all. It just shows the general chaos and lack of information in government. I feel that my mom is one of the tens of thousands of people who didn’t need to die.” A third lost his dad and he said, “It was absolute chaos. They didn’t know what he was doing. As we all know, the buck stops with our prime minister. He’s got ultimate responsibility, but I do hold Matt Hancock responsible as well.” Pippa Crear: (28:17) There’ve been 36,275 deaths involving COVID in UK care homes since the pandemic began, you promised to put a protective ring around them, but you didn’t. Yet today, you dodged questions from MPs about some of the specifics, and now you’re doing it from the media. Why, when there clearly wasn’t sufficient testing capacity to do it safely, did you sign off the discharge plan? Can you give families the answers and finally gives them the peace that they deserve? Matt Hancock: (28:48) Well, thank you, Pippa. I’ve been answering questions all morning and all afternoon, and it’s very, very important too. In fact, that’s been our whole approach throughout this pandemic has been to answer questions from the public and from the media and, of course, from MPs. Many, many people have lost loved ones. As you know, that includes my family. The truth in this situation is that because we didn’t have the testing capacity, it wasn’t possible until we built that capacity to put the testing in place. We were dealing with an unprecedented situation, as you know, and that is one of the things that I will always look back on, which is that we worked incredibly hard to put in place what is needed to fight a pandemic. Matt Hancock: (29:47) Thankfully now, over the last few months, we’ve really got these things in place, over a million tests a day on a regular basis and, of course, the vaccine, which we’ve been working on since the start. Of course, my heart goes out to all those who’ve lost loved ones, but all I can say is that we worked to do everything we possibly could in what were difficult circumstances. Matt Hancock: (30:14) On the details of the policy and why it was in place and crucially what we’ve learned is including, for instance, the asymptomatic transmission of the virus, the fact it passes on through people who don’t have any symptoms. We have developed and improved our policy towards care homes as the testing capacity has grown. Maybe on the clinical side, Dr. Harris will be able to address those parts of the question. Dr. Harries: (30:48) Yes. Thank you, Secretary of State. My family as well has lost somebody at the start of a pandemic, so I think we do feel for those families. If I just go back to the evidence, and this is going to sound quite clinical and scientific, but that’s what I’ve been asked to do, actually, one of the reasons that the subgroup, the Sage subgroup was set up was to really try and look at what were the reasons for these very significant rates of infection and death in a residential care settings. It was set up in a way to be able to feed back directly to the adult social care policy plan in order to be able to implement findings as quickly as possible. If you look at the death rates and bearing in mind the evidence we found from the fact that the discharged from hospitals was actually a very, very tiny proportional cause of cases, what has had a huge impact is the regular testing of staff and residents. Dr. Harries: (31:51) Now, actually, for staff who do this on a regular basis, it’s quite time-consuming for them, so huge thank you to them because every week they do a PCR test and they do two lateral flow device tests. Dr. Harries: (32:03) If you look at the second wave, what you can see is that allows this regular testing means not only do we know if somebody comes in and has a positive test before they start work, they don’t come into care, into the setting, so they are no risk of passing on that infection to others. Equally, of course, we’ve had vaccination programs, but the lateral flow testing has been a really important part of just keeping an eye on that. The PCR testing allows us to run at the same time, is more sensitive, so we’re doing it doubly and checking to see about variant access. We can get on top of these things much more quickly now. Matt Hancock: (32:38) Thanks very much. Next question is from Steve Swinford at the Times. Steve? Pippa Crear: (32:44) Why, when there clearly wasn’t sufficient testing capacity, did you sign off the discharge plan? Matt Hancock: (32:52) I’m terribly sorry. I’m not sure that I got the full question. But I think what you’re saying is that since the challenge was the testing capacity, why did you have the plan? Well- Matt Hancock: (33:03) Why did you have the plan? Well, firstly, we took clinical advice on what the appropriate thing to do was. That was the best way to proceed in these circumstances. But critically, you’ve got to build the testing capacity, and that’s what we did. And we published all these plans at the time, and discussed it. In fact, we discussed it at press conferences at the time. What is the best way to approach it? And that’s something on which we took the clinical advice. Thanks. Steve Swinford at The Times. Pippa Crear: (33:37) Mr. Hancock, have you spoken to the prime minister about the evidence given by Dominic Cummings yesterday, in which he accused you of being a serial liar? And has Boris Johnson personally given you his reassurance that he has confidence in you as his health secretary? And Dr. Harries, on the roadmap, Professor Neil Ferguson said this morning that the easing of lockdown restrictions on the 21st of June is very much in the balance, given the rate at which the Indian variant is spreading. Do you agree with him on that? Matt Hancock: (34:04) Well, the prime minister and I talk all the time, and we’re working incredibly hard on getting this vaccine rollout as broad as possible, making sure people get their second doses, and obviously very vigilant in particular to the areas of the country where cases are starting to rise, as I’ve set out. So that’s what we focus on, because that is what really matters to getting this country out of this pandemic. I mean, this isn’t over yet, and in a way, the rise in case rates in the last couple of days demonstrate that. We’ve all got to be vigilant, and we’ve still all of us got to take personal responsibility for what we can do to help keep this under control as we get the vaccine rolled out. It is a race between the two, and that’s what we’re focused on. Jenny? Dr. Harries: (34:54) Yeah. So on the roadmap, I absolutely agree with Professor Neil Ferguson. The roadmap works on four principles to go forward. It’s on the cases, hospitalizations, the effectiveness of the vaccine program, and then new variants. And so in many ways, we’re looking at the first part and the last part. And if you just look at the pure data, which is out today, it looks quite worrying. So we had 3,535 cases of the 617.2 last week, and we have just about double that, 6,959 now. However, what is important, and I mentioned when I was doing the slides, is we are actively going out and finding cases, so we do expect cases to rise. We also expected some cases to rise as we gradually start to socialize. And I think what’s important is when you look at where these patterns of cases are… If, for example, you look at London data recently where there’s been a huge effort, in all of these areas actually, but in surge testing and the fastest speed that we can detect new variants using different techniques in genomic testing, in some areas, they have closed down. Dr. Harries: (36:06) So we’ve seen a bit of community transmission, and then it’s closed down again. Now, the biggest area probably is North West, as we know, and I know the Bolton team are working really hard, and also in the Greater Manchester area, to try and maintain these numbers quite low. So I think it is really, really just on the cusp at the moment. If we see cases rise, we’re not clear yet quite whether that is a rise in the variant cases taking off, or whether it’s actually a rise because we are actively, quite rightly, detecting them and then challenging these chains of transmission. So, really important thing. On the good news of course, we’re not seeing that generally translating into increased cases of hospitalization, and definitely not into deaths. And so obviously, the key messages there, even if we can just hold it while the vaccination program gets rolled out, we stand a much better chance of getting through this session. So my simple message, which is where I started, is please go and get your jab, and particularly if you’ve got a second jab due shortly. Matt Hancock: (37:13) Thanks very much. I mean, that last point is the absolutely critical one for the country, which is we are in a race between the virus and this vaccine. The vaccine is effective, so we’ve got to get the vaccine out as quickly as possible. And that is the thing that really, really matters. Final question is from Jen Williams, from the Manchester Evening News. Jen. Jen: (37:33) Thanks. A question to the health secretary, if that’s okay. Manchester and Trafford health and social care systems started testing all care home residents before discharge in the middle of March 2020, because they knew then that there was a risk, and so they found a way to do it. So why did it not become national policy for another month? And do you wish you’d taken more advice from local public health and social care leaders at the start of the pandemic? And one for Dr. Harries. There’s obviously been a lot of national attention on Bolton in the last few weeks, and there were signs that infection rate rises are now slowing thanks to the measures that have been taken, but those in most other Greater Manchester boroughs are now rising very fast. Should these places now be getting similar military surge vaccination support to Bolton? Thanks. Matt Hancock: (38:15) Thanks very much. Come back to the earlier point. Unfortunately, we didn’t have the testing capacity to put that policy in place across the whole country. It would have been wonderful if we’d started this pandemic with a very large testing capacity. We didn’t. We had to build one. And then once we built one, we were able to put that policy in place nationwide. When it comes to Bolton, there are some early signs that the increase in rates are maybe starting to cap out. We did see this program of surge testing plus surge vaccinations work in South London, but I’m really watching the Bolton rates very closely. Dr. Harries. Dr. Harries: (39:03) Thank you, yes. So I might just do a call out here for the director of public health in Bolton, Helen Lowey, who has been absolutely brilliant in supporting this, and we work very closely with her. I think secretary said the cases actually do look as though they are starting to plateau out, but the spillover in community transmission in local areas is an important one. What we are finding a lot of places though, that it’s not absolutely what we would call generalized transmission, that you can still see focal points of outbreaks, whether it be a community center, whether it be a school or a faith building. And so it’s really important that that local understanding is brought into the picture, so that we can surge the testing and put in support in those areas. Dr. Harries: (39:47) I think actually, the way that Test and Trace are now working, swiveling around that services and building from the local system, is a really important one. And we’re doing that generally right across areas, looking out for other parts of Greater Manchester to see how we can support them. But the data at the moment, and those support enablers for local people, are very much focused on the areas where we can see the rate of change, the rate of growth in transmission is the greatest. But we’ll continue to watch out, obviously.
8744	dbpedia	1	50	https://www.some.ox.ac.uk/news/four-somervillian-mps-appointed-to-new-roles-in-cabinet-reshuffle/	en	Four Somervillian MPs appointed to new roles in Cabinet reshuffle	https://www.some.ox.ac.u…avicon-32x32.png	https://www.some.ox.ac.u…avicon-32x32.png	[ "https://www.some.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/themes/somerville-college/assets/img/main-menu-logo.svg", "https://www.some.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/themes/somerville-college/assets/img/main-menu-logo.svg", "https://www.some.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/themes/somerville-college/assets/img/Logo_new.svg", "https://www.some.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/themes/somerville-college/assets/img/search-magnify-icon.svg", "http://www.some.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Sam-G.jpg", "http://www.some.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Coffey.jpg", "http://www.some.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Baroness-Neville-Rolfe.jpg", "http://www.some.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Nicola-B.jpg", "https://www.some.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/themes/somerville-college/assets/img/Footer_Logo_new2.svg", "https://www.some.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/themes/somerville-college/assets/img/ox_brand_cmyk_pos.svg" ]	[]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[ "Somerville" ]	2016-07-20T15:36:51+01:00	As a result of new Prime Minister Theresa May’s reshuffle of the Cabinet and Ministers, four Somervillian Members of Parliament have been moved into new roles.	en	https://www.some.ox.ac.u…e-touch-icon.png	Somerville College Oxford - Somerville College main website	https://www.some.ox.ac.uk/news/four-somervillian-mps-appointed-to-new-roles-in-cabinet-reshuffle/	As a result of new Prime Minister Theresa May’s reshuffle of the Cabinet and Ministers, four Somervillian Members of Parliament have been moved into new roles. Sam Gyimah Former Childcare and Education Minister, Sam Gyimah who came to Somerville to read Philosophy, Politics and Economics in 1995, has been appointed as Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Ministry of Justice. On Saturday 16 July, he announced to his Twitter followers that he was ‘delighted to be appointed as a minister in the Justice Department to help drive progressive reform of the Justice system.’ Mr Gyimah was elected Conservative Member of Parliament for Surrey East at the General Election of 2010. Then, in 2012, he was appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Prime Minister, David Cameron, and in 2013 he was appointed a Government Whip. Therese Coffey MP for Suffolk Coastal, Therese Coffey (Chemistry, 1989) has replaced Rory Steward as Waste and Resources Minister at Defra. Dr Coffey was previously the Deputy Leader of the House of Commons serving under Chris Grayling MP and served on the Culture, Media and Sport Committee until she was appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary to Michael Fallon, Minister for Business and Energy. Mr Fallon had responsibility for the WEEE directive which is now overseen by Defra. Baroness Neville-Rolfe DBE CMG Baroness Neville-Rolfe (PPE, 1970) has been promoted to Minister of State at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy after having previously been Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (jointly with the Department of Culture, Media and Sport) and Minister for Intellectual Property from May 2015. Nicola Blackwood The fourth Somervillian to be handed a new post is Nicola Blackwood (Music, 2005), MP for West Oxford and Abingdon, who has been made Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Public Health. She has left her present role as chair of the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee, but tweeted that she ‘will keep fighting for science and innovation’. Before the General Election, Miss Blackwood was Parliamentary Private Secretary to Matthew Hancock MP, Minister for Energy and Enterprise (2013-2015) and a key member of the influential Home Affairs Select Committee (2010-2015). She was also previously Vice Chairman of the Conservative Party from 2010-2013.
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This was an unprecedented global crisis, with governments across the world racing to develop tests, treatments and vaccines for a new virus. It was inevitable that mistakes would be made, and it’s the role of the Covid Inquiry – launched in March 2022 and due to begin public hearings in June – to get to the bottom of what happened and offer lessons for the future. I do, however, know how much blame Matt Hancock thinks he deserves: none at all. His hilariously named Pandemic Diaries, written with the help of the journalist Isabel Oakeshott (more on her later) and published in December, is littered with pre-emptive excuses and justifications from the disgraced former health secretary for the “care homes fiasco”, as Dominic Cummings apparently called it. Care homes are mentioned nearly 100 times in the book’s 562 pages. We see Hancock presciently realising how important it is that care homes are protected (3 March 2020); working tirelessly to get them the protective equipment they need (17 March 2020); getting exasperated with care home staff who are reluctant to accept patients from hospitals (13 April 2020) and are not testing enough (18 April 2020); and blaming staff moving between care homes for spreading the virus (16 July 2020). There is a telling moment on 2 April 2020 where he wrings his hands about the “utter nightmare” of having to discharge patients from hospitals into care homes without testing them, but due to lack of testing capacity he concludes that nothing can be done and it’s up to care home staff to make sure said patients are isolated: “We have put this in the guidance… I hope it is followed.” [See also: Matt Hancock’s Pandemic Diaries are a delusional piece of self-aggrandising fan fiction] The clear impression is that our beleaguered health secretary was doing all he could to protect vulnerable care home residents in the face of resistance from just about everyone – Public Health England, the NHS, PPE companies, nameless bureaucrats, care home staff themselves, the virus. Where errors were made, it was down to shoddy advice from scientists or public health officials, not Hancock himself. We see a different story in Hancock’s WhatsApp messages, which he shared with Oakeshott for the purposes of writing the book and which have now been leaked by her to the Daily Telegraph – all 2.3 million words of them. These seem to show Hancock firmly rejecting the advice of Chris Whitty, the chief medical officer for England, on 14 April 2020 to test anyone going into care homes, saying that only those coming from hospital needed to be tested and rejecting the need for community testing in case it “muddies the waters”. Interestingly, this exchange doesn’t seem to appear in Hancock’s book: the diary entry for that day is all about how difficult it is working with Cummings. Team Hancock have said the messages have been “doctored to create a false story that Matt rejected clinical advice on care home testing” which is “flat wrong”. The statement adds that “the proper place for analysis like this is the Inquiry, not a partial, agenda-driven leak of confidential documents”. And you know what? I have a lot of sympathy with that view. Or I would if Hancock had not brought this misfortune – and any more that follows as a result of the leaked messages – entirely on himself. For a start, there’s the question of why he chose Oakeshott. A tenacious journalist (she’s been political editor of the Sunday Times and political editor-at-large of the Daily Mail), Oakeshott is probably most famous outside Westminster for her unauthorised biography of David Cameron in 2015, which includes a sensational (and entirely uncorroborated) claim about the former prime minister doing something untoward with a dead pig. She is firmly on the Brexity right of British politics (her partner is Richard Tice, founder of the Brexit Party), and like many of her fellow Brexiteers and former colleagues at GB News was a proud lockdown-sceptic. Why a Cameroon Tory such as Hancock who backed Remain in 2016 and, as health secretary, was the poster boy for lockdown (at least until he broke his own rules by having an affair with his comms aide) would pick a political opponent who fundamentally disagreed with his flagship policy to ghost-write his memoirs is a mystery. [See also: What did we do to deserve Matt Hancock?] The only conceivable answer is that Hancock was too full of himself, too convinced of his own innate decency and genius, to be able to see the obvious danger in handing over thousands of personal messages to a journalist who has shown throughout her career exactly what she is capable of. But even if Hancock had been more fastidious in selecting who to work with, he still deserves what’s coming to him. Because his biggest error wasn’t his choice of ghost-writer – it was writing the book in the first place. I reviewed the Pandemic Diaries when the book came out, and pointed out then that it is essentially a work of fan fiction. Hancock admits in the introduction that he kept no diary during the pandemic, and instead retroactively concocted one from his notes, emails and messages. It is fantasy masquerading as fact: a way for the former health secretary to tell his side of the story (his “truth”, to borrow a term from Harry and Meghan) without all the pesky considerations the public inquiry will no doubt involve, such as proper interrogation and rebuttal testimony. It’s an insult to the hundreds of thousands of people who died of Covid, and to the millions more whose lives were disrupted – often with tragic results – as a result of the government’s response. Again, that tragedy may not be entirely Hancock’s fault. It’s probably unfair to blame all those deaths, all that grief and misery, on one man – even if he did happen to be health secretary. And I imagine that, in the fullness of time, the Covid Inquiry will come to that conclusion. But if Hancock didn’t want to be pre-emptively judged for his failings, he should have thought about that before trying to cover them up by publishing a fantastical, self-aggrandising apologia under the guise of memoir. Read more: Matt Hancock is sanitizing his image on I’m A Celebrity Matt Hancock is taking the Tories’ last shred of dignity with him to the “I’m a Celebrity…” jungle
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8744	dbpedia	1	27	https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/jul/18/the-politicians-named-in-covid-inquiry-report-over-failures-prior-to-pandemic	en	Hunt to Hancock: six politicians in the frame in Covid inquiry report	https://i.guim.co.uk/img…e74d0284904a16e0	https://i.guim.co.uk/img…e74d0284904a16e0	[ "https://sb.scorecardresearch.com/p?c1=2&c2=6035250&cv=2.0&cj=1&cs_ucfr=0&comscorekw=Covid+inquiry%2CCoronavirus%2CHealth+policy%2CConservatives%2CMatt+Hancock%2CJeremy+Hunt%2CDavid+Cameron%2CGeorge+Osborne%2CBoris+Johnson%2CTheresa+May%2CUK+news", "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/053e4bda71990c469333ae593fb7a2e708966010/107_193_3393_2036/master/3393.jpg?width=465&dpr=1&s=none", "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/9c007460719cc9bc4b61d542ac9a1dba896a99c9/0_359_5382_3229/master/5382.jpg?width=220&dpr=1&s=none", "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/f5570facf94bf155de4e611eadd62995ee8fedb9/0_96_5472_3283/master/5472.jpg?width=220&dpr=1&s=none", "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/baf68c7f03bea9a80131d3962346005d1e3866a3/446_82_1428_857/master/1428.jpg?width=220&dpr=1&s=none", "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/17a2bb9973807f9d33e48cd39e9425a9b1eebbd6/0_59_4000_2400/master/4000.jpg?width=220&dpr=1&s=none", "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/94cc40400110aa6b5fd7dfb065e9ed5a8d013ddc/0_0_5291_3177/master/5291.jpg?width=220&dpr=1&s=none", "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/ee18edb5aa7b7a67c0fcd5d39688d9275d35219a/0_66_3500_2101/master/3500.jpg?width=220&dpr=1&s=none", "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/f46955f1e81514174a3e6680466b99cc8fcb38bf/0_116_3500_2101/master/3500.jpg?width=220&dpr=1&s=none", "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/3bde6a1486a5d3f723ea83cb32ecbf8cbb3d7f84/0_135_3500_2100/master/3500.jpg?width=220&dpr=1&s=none", "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/d33c40cb9766b5f9083fca0566fafe8436a2776c/0_90_3500_2100/master/3500.jpg?width=220&dpr=1&s=none", "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/0e15ffc432097560cb43f89a4484063fba086e79/37_94_1247_748/master/1247.jpg?width=220&dpr=1&s=none" ]	[]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[ "Peter Walker", "www.theguardian.com" ]	2024-07-18T00:00:00	While many of the failings are seen as institutional, the report names some politicians for their role in the crisis	en	https://assets.guim.co.u…e-touch-icon.svg	the Guardian	https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/jul/18/the-politicians-named-in-covid-inquiry-report-over-failures-prior-to-pandemic	The first report by the official Covid inquiry has been damning about the UK’s seeming lack of preparedness for the pandemic. Much of the fault is seen as being institutional, but some politicians are mentioned in the 240 pages. Here are the main players: Matt Hancock As health secretary for almost three years, from 2018 to 2021, Hancock was at the helm as Covid hit but, as the report states, he inherited an inadequately prepared infrastructure. When Hancock took over, his “day one” briefing from the health department’s chief civil servant included the idea that pandemic flu would be the biggest likely health emergency to strike, the report noted. This idea, based on a 2011 pandemic strategy, was a “flawed doctrine”, as Hancock told the inquiry. However, the report concluded that Hancock shared responsibility with earlier health secretaries, as well as the experts and officials who advised them, and the UK’s devolved governments, for “failing to have these flaws examined and rectified”. It added: “This includes Mr Hancock, who abandoned the [2011] strategy when the pandemic struck, by which time it was too late to have any effect on preparedness and resilience.” Hancock allies said it was unfair to blame him for acting on the advice of experts. Jeremy Hunt Hunt’s role in the UK’s lack of preparedness for the pandemic was similar to Hancock’s, and was arguably bigger given he was health secretary for just under six years, from 2012 to 2018. The report noted that Hunt could not remember being advised that the 2011 pandemic strategy should be revised, and that he had “no idea” why the experience of east Asian countries affected by the 2002-2004 Sars virus was not taken on board. Overall, the 2011 strategy was “not subject to sufficient external challenge by either ministers or officials”, the report said. Saying that Hunt told the inquiry that in retrospect he and others “didn’t put anything like the time and effort and energy” into challenging the consensus, it added: “The inquiry agrees.” It did, however, give Hunt some credit for challenging an assumption in a later pandemic planning test, 2016’s Exercise Cygnus, that intensive care beds would be emptied to accept flu patients, saying this helped create new protocols. David Cameron and George Osborne The prime minister and chancellor from 2010 to 2016 crop up a few times in the report in relation to pandemic planning, but arguably their most notable contribution was one that does not really get a mention: austerity. The document cites eloquent testimony about the much-documented ways health inequalities meant Covid affected some people and communities much more than others. It also alludes to the fact that this did not happen in a political vacuum. The UK “entered the pandemic with its public services depleted, health improvement stalled, health inequalities increased and health among the poorest people in a state of decline”, it cites two public health experts, Clare Bambra and Michael Marmot, as telling the inquiry. While there had been predictions that the report might note the impact of the Cameron-Osborne years in creating this, it has no mention of the word austerity, and just a single use of the word poverty. Boris Johnson and Theresa May Johnson, the prime minister during the pandemic, is barely mentioned in this report, and May just once. But they face strong if implicit criticism – the idea that preparations for a no-deal Brexit might have impeded pandemic planning. The report noted evidence from witnesses who said Operation Yellowhammer, intended to mitigate the effects of a possible departure from the EU without a trade deal, took up civil contingencies resources which could have been used elsewhere. It concluded: “The fact, however, remains that the UK government’s preparedness and resilience system was, quite evidently, under constant strain. It was reliant on stopping work on preparing for one potential emergency to concentrate on another.”
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The senior minister, who had held three cabinet positions before reaching his 40th birthday, announced his resignation in a video and formal letter to the Prime Minister. He said: “I understand the enormous sacrifices that everybody in this country has made, you have made. “And those of us who make these rules have got to stick by them and that’s why I’ve got to resign.” Appointed Health Secretary in 2018 after spending 18 months in the culture brief, he has been a prominent figure for the Government during its handling of the coronavirus pandemic until his resignation on Saturday. Following a series of uncomfortable headlines in recent weeks, Mr Hancock faced pressure to stand down after pictures emerged depicting the married minister appearing to kiss his adviser Gina Coladangelo. The CCTV images published in The Sun were taken on May 6 when guidance on social distancing were still in place, with hugging between people from different households recommended against. This came after the Prime Minister’s former aide Dominic Cummings shared text messages this month in which Boris Johnson is said to have called the Health Secretary – who caught coronavirus last year – “totally f***ing useless”. Mr Cummings accused the senior minister of lying to the Prime Minister over promises to protect those in care homes during the first wave of Covid-19 infections by testing new residents before being admitted. Mr Hancock has dismissed claims he lied and called Mr Johnson’s “hopeless” jibe “ancient history”. During the first face-to-face meeting this week between the Queen and Mr Johnson since the pandemic started, the monarch called Mr Hancock a “poor man” following his time in the limelight since the crisis kicked off in March 2020. Mr Hancock, who in 2018 became the only MP in British politics to launch his own app, took only eight years to rise from West Suffolk MP to Health Secretary. The former has made a big play of his varied life before entering politics. The Oxford and Cambridge educated father-of-three previously worked as an economist at the Bank of England and as chief of staff to George Osborne when he was shadow chancellor of the Exchequer, before becoming an MP. Mr Hancock, who is said to have met Ms Coladangelo at university, has been married to his wife Martha for 15 years and they have three children together. Ms Coladangelo, the lobbyist and aide who Mr Hancock is claimed to have had an affair with, told a BBC Radio 4 profile on the politician that the pair met at the Oxford University student radio station, Oxygen FM, where she was a news reader and he a sports reporter. Matt Hancock resigns - tell us what you think - click here. The marketing and communications director at Oliver Bonas, a British retailer founded by her husband Oliver Tress, told the BBC about how Mr Hancock had “told a white lie” to his radio news desk after failing to make it to cover an international rugby match. She said: “He actually overslept and hot-footed it to the train but didn’t make it to Twickenham in time from Oxford, so had to get off the train at Reading, find a pub, watch the first half in a pub and then go to a phone box outside and report in. “So he told a white lie, pretended he was at Twickenham watching the rugby when in fact he was in a pub in Reading.” The Cheshire-raised politician first attended cabinet after being appointed Minister for the Cabinet Office in 2015 by then prime minister David Cameron. Mr Cameron’s successor Theresa May later promoted him to the role of culture secretary. The 42-year-old initially threw his hat into the ring to replace Mrs May in No 10 during the 2019 Conservative Party leadership contest, but withdrew from the leadership race part way through and was quick to throw his weight behind Mr Johnson. He was among the handful of ministers to retain his brief when Mr Johnson took power in July 2019, making him one of the most prominent ministers when coronavirus rocked Britain eight months later. Mr Hancock said he is looking forward to “supporting the Government and the Prime Minister from the back benches to make sure that we can get out of this pandemic” in his resignation video.
8744	dbpedia	3	90	https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/12/29/lynton-crosby-honours-list-matthew-hancock-election-2015-wato_n_8889580.html	en	Matthew Hancock Defends Knighthood For Conservative Election Campaign Chief Lynton Crosby	https://img.huffingtonpo…peg?ops=1200_630	https://img.huffingtonpo…peg?ops=1200_630	[ "https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/5d013fb92400005117870bf0.jpeg?ops=scalefit_720_noupscale", "https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/5d013fb9210000a718e82fa2.jpeg?ops=scalefit_720_noupscale", "https://sb.scorecardresearch.com/p?c1=2&c2=6723616&c3=&c4=&c5=&c6=&c15=&cj=1" ]	[ "//embeds.audioboom.com/boos/4002545-matthew-hancock-says-lynton-crosby-s-rumoured-knighthood-is-for-political-service/embed/v4?eid=AQAAABagglbxEj0A" ]	[]	[ "uk news", "uk politics", "Lynton Crosby", "general election 2015", "conservative party", "honours list", "matthew hancock", "Politics" ]	null	[ "The Huffington Post UK" ]	2015-12-29T00:00:00	Tory Minister Defends Knighthood For Election Campaign Chief	en	/favicon.ico	HuffPost UK	https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/12/29/lynton-crosby-honours-list-matthew-hancock-election-2015-wato_n_8889580.html	A senior Tory minister has defended a Knighthood being handed to his party's long-standing election guru Lynton Crosby, saying the Australian campaign chief had performed a "great public service". Matthew Hancock, who heads up the Cabinet Office, hailed Crosby for masterminding the Conservatives campaign back in May 2015, reasoning that he had contributed to the country's "democratic process". Advertisement The West Suffolk MP also hit back at allegations that Crosby's rumoured gong - something the government has refused to deny - had confused party interest with public interest. "He's a great public servant," Hancock insisted of the man who ran David Cameron's successful second bid for office in 2015, as well as Boris Johnson's Mayoral campaign in 2012. Crosby, pictured, helped sweep the Conservatives to power again "Political service is part of public service. People who make a contribution to our democratic process make a public service. Advertisement "Likewise, civil servants who work - possibly could be paid more in the private sector - but work for their country, that is a public service." The BBC's Shaun Ley probed Hancock, inquiring: "You don't think he was rewarded perfectly adequately by the Conservative Party to help run your election campaign? "And that’s there's a danger if you do give him a knighthood - as it has been widely reported - that that is confusing the Conservative Party's 's interest with the public interest?" Story continues below Hancock retorted that hundreds of political figures had previously been rewarded with honours, and that Crosby's suggested award was for services to democracy. Advertisement "There's a long history of political service being recognised as part of public service," the Tory minister reasoned. "Services to our democracy are a very important part of making sure we live in this great democratic country where people, every few years, can kick out their government if they want to. "Political service - by MPs, peers and others, is part of public service." "It's a very important part - making sure we have this robust debate we do - and, as I say, it’s a longstanding part of the honours system and I think that the honours system as a whole is a very strong way."
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channel Matt Hancock will be the latest high-profile politician to appear before the Covid-19 inquiry as hearings continue into Government preparedness for the pandemic. The former health secretary, who helped steer the coronavirus response before being forced to quit in June 2021, will give evidence to Lady Hallett’s inquiry today (June 27). His attendance at the inquiry comes after Chancellor Jeremy Hunt, another former health secretary, admitted that “group-think” helped lead to a “narrowness of thinking” that failed to expand pandemic preparedness beyond planning for a flu outbreak. Former deputy chief medical officer Dame Jenny Harries was yesterday quizzed on the capacity of the UK health system as well as the organisational reforms before the Covid outbreak. Mr Hancock became health secretary in mid-2018, but his political career was torpedoed after footage emerged in 2021 of his embrace with aide Gina Coladangelo. Read more... Hancock terrified of being 'pushed down escalator' by angry anti-vaxxer [LATEST] He was central to the Government’s pandemic era decision-making and messaging, with his own recollections of the period likely to be a crucial part of the inquiry. A leak of more than a 100,000 of his WhatsApp messages by journalist Isabel Oakeshott, many of which were published earlier this year, provided a glimpse into the inner workings of Government during the period. The West Suffolk MP, who will stand down at the next general election, has faced questions in the past about the policy on Covid testing and nursing homes. Former prime minister David Cameron, former chancellor George Osborne and chief medical officer Professor Sir Chris Whitty are all among those who have appeared before the committee so far. Meanwhile, a former parliamentary private secretary to Mr Hancock has apologised for attending an event in Parliament while Covid restrictions were still in place. Invalid email We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you've consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. Read our Privacy Policy The Guido Fawkes website reported that Virginia Crosbie, MP for Ynys Mon, was the co-host of an alleged drinks event on December 8, 2020, with the site quoting a WhatsApp message from Baroness Jenkin describing the event as “joint birthday drinks” to mark the pair turning 54 and 65 respectively. The event came under the spotlight when Boris Johnson lashed out at the Privileges Committee ahead of its damning report into his conduct, and accused Sir Bernard Jenkin of “monstrous hypocrisy” for allegedly attending the event with his wife. Ms Crosbie confirmed the event took place but said she had not sent out any invitation. “Regarding reports of an event held on 8th December 2020 I would like to set out the facts,” she said in a statement. “The invitation for this event was not sent out by me. I attended the event briefly, I did not drink and I did not celebrate my birthday. I went home shortly after to be with my family. “I apologise unreservedly for a momentary error of judgment in attending the event.”
8744	dbpedia	0	1	https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Hancock	en	Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia	https://upload.wikimedia…ck_MP_crop_2.jpg	https://upload.wikimedia…ck_MP_crop_2.jpg	[ "https://simple.wikipedia.org/static/images/icons/wikipedia.png", "https://simple.wikipedia.org/static/images/mobile/copyright/wikipedia-wordmark-en.svg", "https://simple.wikipedia.org/static/images/mobile/copyright/wikipedia-tagline-simple.svg", "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/Official_portrait_of_Rt_Hon_Matt_Hancock_MP_crop_2.jpg/220px-Official_portrait_of_Rt_Hon_Matt_Hancock_MP_crop_2.jpg", "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Crystal_Clear_app_Login_Manager.png/20px-Crystal_Clear_app_Login_Manager.png", "https://login.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAutoLogin/start?type=1x1", "https://simple.wikipedia.org/static/images/footer/wikimedia-button.svg", "https://simple.wikipedia.org/static/images/footer/poweredby_mediawiki.svg" ]	[]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[ "Contributors to Wikimedia projects" ]	2019-05-29T20:09:00+00:00		en	/static/apple-touch/wikipedia.png		https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Hancock	Matthew John David Hancock (born 2nd October 1978) is a British politician. He has been the MP of West Suffolk since 2010.[2] He was Secretary of State for Health and Social Care from 2018 until 2021. Hancock was suspended from the Conservative Party in November 2022. Political roles [change \| change source] On 9 July 2018, after the promotion of Jeremy Hunt to Foreign Secretary, Hancock was named Secretary of State for Health and Social Care.[3] On 25 May 2019, Hancock announced his plans to run for leadership of the Conservative Party.[4] He withdrew from the race on 14 June shortly after winning only twenty votes on the first ballot.[5] In May 2021, Hancock was filmed kissing an assistant during the COVID-19 pandemic. He also attended Boris Johnson's party during the national quarantine. Both of these events angered many people. He announced his resignation as Secretary for Health on 26 June 2021,[6] with Sajid Javid taking over as Health Secretary.[7] In November 2022, Matt Hancock was announced as a contestant on I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here (a show where celebrities live in a jungle). He was suspended from the Conservative Party because of this. Hancock made it to the final and finished in third place out of 12 celebrities. He will also be a contestant on SAS: Who Dares Wins. Matt Hancock released a book named Pandemic Diaries.
8744	dbpedia	0	92	https://www.gov.uk/government/news/leading-business-backs-nato-summit-in-wales	en	Leading business backs NATO summit in Wales	https://assets.publishin…_light_paths.JPG	https://assets.publishin…_light_paths.JPG	[ "https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5a37daa6e5274a7908e351ed/s300_Global_invest-export_light_paths.JPG" ]	[]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[ "UK Trade & Investment" ]	2014-08-29T16:34:21+01:00	Businesses from across the UK will provide their support to make next week’s NATO Summit a success, Matthew Hancock announced today.	en	/assets/static/favicon-f54816fc15997bd42cd90e4c50b896a1fc098c0c32957d4e5effbfa9f9b35e53.ico	GOV.UK	https://www.gov.uk/government/news/leading-business-backs-nato-summit-in-wales	Businesses from across the UK will provide their support to make next week’s NATO Summit a success, Business Minister Matthew Hancock announced today (29 August 2014). BAE Systems, Raytheon UK, General Dynamics UK, Lockheed Martin UK and Airbus have been confirmed as official supporters of the event and will provide financial backing and showcase cutting edge technologies at Celtic Manor in Newport during September’s summit. All of the companies are major employers with bases in Wales and all invest in building skills by providing apprenticeships. The defence industry generates over £22 billion per year for the UK economy and directly employs 162,400 people, including 4,900 apprentices and trainees. The industry indirectly supports a further 114,200 jobs. Equipment on display at Celtic Manor will include: General Dynamic’s next-generation SCOUT SV armoured fighting vehicle – in development just outside Blackwood near Newport. As well as their Foxhound, the newest military vehicle BAE Systems’ Terrier, the Army’s remote-controlled armoured engineering vehicle full scale replicas of the Eurofighter Typhoon fast jet and the F-35B Joint Strike Fighter Lightning II stealth fast jet. Approximately 15% of the Joint Strike Fighter programme involves work carried out in the UK, with more than 130 British companies contributing to the supply chain. Overall the programme is worth over £1 billion to UK industry every year, and will support around 25,000 British jobs over the next 24 years The BMW Group and Jaguar Land Rover will also support the summit by providing transport to the delegates. Business Minister Matthew Hancock said: This week shines a spotlight on the UK’s thriving defence industry. As part of our long term economic plan, we are working closely with the defence sector to secure new investment, highly-skilled jobs and build a better and brighter future for Britain. Defence Secretary Michael Fallon said: The defence industry is hugely important to our security and economy. These companies work every day to ensure our Armed Forces have the best equipment in the world and I welcome their involvement in showcasing some of that during the NATO Summit. The news comes after a GREAT reception to showcase Welsh business, education and tourism hosted by First Minister of Wales Carwyn Jones and the Secretary of State for Wales Stephen Crabb earlier this week. More than 200 guests attended the event at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London to find out how both governments are promoting Wales overseas using the UK’s extensive overseas network and to see some examples of Wales’ finest produce. On Wednesday (27 August 2014) Business Secretary Vince Cable also jointly announced a UK Investment Summit with Wales Office Secretary of State Stephen Crabb and Welsh Government Business Secretary Edwina Hart. To run on November 20 and 21 2014, the summit will be held in Newport, Wales, and focus on new technologies. With 60 world leaders, 70 foreign and defence chiefs, 4,000 delegates and up to 1,500 international media all set to attend the NATO Summit, the influx of visitors will deliver an economic boost for south Wales. This follows the release last month of annual investment figures from UK Trade and Investment (UKTI) which showed that Wales registered an 18% increase in inward investment over the past year compared to 2012/2013. Through the Defence Growth Partnership (DGP), the government is working closely with industry to ensure the UK retains its competitive advantage and maximises opportunities in increasingly competitive global markets. At last month’s (July 2014) Farnborough International Airshow, Prime Minister David Cameron launched the DGP’s Implementation Plan, which set out a package of measures to improve the UK’s competitiveness, support collaboration, strengthen international focus and build on strengths in air capabilities and intelligent systems for export-led growth. The defence industry generates over £22 billion per year for the UK economy and directly employs 162,400 people, including 4,900 apprentices and trainees. The industry indirectly supports a further 114,200 jobs. BAE Systems, General Dynamics UK, Lockheed Martin UK and Airbus all run apprenticeship programmes in areas including engineering, business, logistics, desktop support and commercial support. The BMW Group and Jaguar Land Rover also have apprenticeship schemes. Notes to Editors
8744	dbpedia	3	28	https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/matt-hancock-controversies-im-a-celebrity-b2217611.html	en	Matt Hancock: A timeline of the former health secretary’s Westminster controversies	https://static.independe…h=1200&auto=webp	https://static.independe…h=1200&auto=webp	[ "https://www.independent.co.uk/img/logo-white-out.svg", "https://static.independent.co.uk/static-assets/images/newsletter/brexit-and-beyond/brexit-and-beyond.png", "https://static.independent.co.uk/2022/07/04/20/8ed5023241bd9cee331d2cea19d6bd92Y29udGVudHNlYXJjaGFwaSwxNjU3MDQ2OTIw-2.54793380.jpg?quality=75&width=230&auto=webp", "https://static.independent.co.uk/2022/11/01/12/af2e3405d6f1143a2a6e5e9cd4e92762Y29udGVudHNlYXJjaGFwaSwxNjY3MzkxMDIw-2.69443560.jpg?quality=75&width=230&auto=webp", "https://static.independent.co.uk/2022/11/01/11/412f1f864c1a797a1045db85c07f43f4Y29udGVudHNlYXJjaGFwaSwxNjY3Mzg3ODYz-2.33773576.jpg?quality=75&width=230&auto=webp", "https://www.independent.co.uk/img/icons/google.svg" ]	[]	[]	[ "Matt Hancock", "Boris Johnson", "Dominic Cummings", "Gina Coladangelo", "Jeremy Hunt", "Karen Bradley", "Brexit", "COVID-19", "Theresa May", "Rishi Sunak", "David Cameron", "I'm A Celebrity", "Internal" ]	null	[ "Joe Sommerlad" ]	2022-11-04T10:29:26+00:00	Latest MP to try their hand at reality TV attracted plenty of criticism overseeing UK response to Covid-19 before being forced out of office over affair with aide	en	/img/shortcut-icons/favicon.ico	The Independent	https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/matt-hancock-controversies-im-a-celebrity-b2217611.html	Former UK health secretary Matt Hancock will reportedly take part in the new series of ITV’s I’m a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!, following the likes of Boy George, Seann Walsh and Mike Tindall into the jungle “Matt is a sensational signing for the show as producers love a star with a story to tell – and they always hope they’ll spill the beans round the campfire,” an insider told The Sun. “He’s the latest in a long line of figures from the political sphere, including MP Nadine Dorries, Stanley Johnson and MP Lembit Opik.” The Conservative MP for West Suffolk was first elected in 2010 and served as head of the department of health under Theresa May and then Boris Johnson, finding himself at the centre of the storm when the Covid-19 pandemic first arrived on these shores in early 2020. He was criticised over elements of the government’s response to the pandemic, notably a perceived lack of transparency surrounding the awarding of lucrative personal protective equipment (PPE) contracts to businesses and was finally forced to step down in June 2021, after admitting violating his own social distancing regulations when his affair with aide Gina Coladangelo was exposed. Here’s a timeline of Mr Hancock’s occasionally scandal-hit and frequently unflatteringly-photographed time in Westminster. 6 May 2010 - Chester native, Oxford graduate, former Bank of England economist and George Osborne chief of staff Matt Hancock becomes Tory MP for West Suffolk. 6 September 2012 - Appointed minister of state for skills and enterprise, the first of a string of junior ministerial posts held under David Cameron. 15 July 2014 - Appointed minister of state for energy and minister of state for business and enterprise. 27 July 2014 - Challenged regarding policy protecting fracking in National Parks on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme but is unable to name a single village that supported the introduction of the controversial gas extraction practice. 2 October 2014 - Forced to apologise after sharing a poem on Twitter declaring the Labour Party was “full of queers”, describing the incident as an “accident”. 2 April 2015 - Criticised by environmental activists for hiring a private jet to fly back to London from a climate conference in Aberdeen. 11 May 2015 - Appointed minister for the Cabinet Office and paymaster general. 23 June 2016 - Britain votes to leave the European Union (EU). Mr Hancock backs Remain. 15 July 2016 - Appointed minister of state for digital, culture, media and sport. 8 January 2018 - Promoted to secretary of state for digital, culture, media and sport, succeeding Karen Bradley. 2 February 2018 - Launches his own mobile app to keep constituents abreast of his movements, which was later found to collect users’ personal data, albeit with their consent. 9 July 2018 - Appointed health secretary in Ms May’s final Cabinet reshuffle, succeeding Jeremy Hunt. 25 May 2019 - Announces plan to stand for party leadership one day after Ms May’s resignation. 14 June 2019 - Withdraws from race after first ballot and endorses Mr Johnson, the eventual winner. Retained as health secretary in the latter’s first Cabinet. 31 January 2020 - First coronavirus cases diagnosed in Britain. 23 March 2020 - Mr Johnson announces first national lockdown to stop the spread of the virus. 27 March 2020 - Both Mr Hancock and Mr Johnson test positive for the disease and are forced into quarantine. 11 May 2020 - Mr Hancock criticised by the UK Statistics Authority when it emerged that the target he had set for 100,000 daily Covid tests had been met only by changing the method of counting. 19 October 2020 - The Daily Mirror publishes a picture of Mr Hancock riding in a chauffeur-driven car without a face mask. 21 October 2020 - Ridiculed by Piers Morgan on ITV’s Good Morning Britain after applauding the government’s U-turn on free school meals in response to a pressure campaign led by footballer Marcus Rashford and others, despite his having voted against funding them. 2 December 2020 - Rebuked for suggesting the UK’s fast vaccine approval was only possible because of Brexit, whereas EU legislation was in place at the time. 19 February 2021 - High Court judge rules that Mr Hancock acted unlawfully earlier in the pandemic by handing out PPE contracts without publishing details on the recipients within 30 days, as he was obliged to do under Contract Award Notices protocol, only having done so within 47 days. 26 May 2021 - Dominic Cummings, Mr Johnson’s controversial adviser, appears before MPs and says “tens of thousands of people died who didn’t need to die” during the pandemic due to government blunders and that Mr Hancock should have been fired on “15 to 20” different occasions. 25 June 2021 - The Sun publishes CCTV stills from 6 May showing Mr Hancock embracing health department aide Ms Coladangelo, with whom he was having an extramarital affair, breaking his own Covid rules in the process. 26 June 2021 - Despite Mr Johnson saying he had accepted Mr Hancock’s apology and considered the matter “closed”, Mr Hancock resigns in disgrace, saying that those who make the rules must observe them, amid a storm of condemnation. He separates from his wife of 15 years, osteopath Martha Hoyer Millar, with whom he has three children. 12 October 2021 - Mr Hancock announces his appointment as the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa new special representative for financial innovation and climate change. 16 October 2021 Following objections to his hiring, the UN rescinds the job offer. 21 April 2022 - Forthcoming publication of Mr Hancock’s diaries announced by Biteback, a juicy prospect for those interested in the Johnson years in No 10. 24 October 2022 - Embarrassingly snubbed by new PM Rishi Sunak on the steps of Conservative Party headquarters as he celebrates his ascension with well-wishers. Mr Hancock’s return to the frontbench suddenly looks unlikely.
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He had to deal with the worst pandemic in a century. And he had Boris Johnson and Dominic Cummings as bosses. It is a fate I would not wish on anyone. But I have to admit, after struggling through this book, in moments of weakness I wished it on Matt Hancock. The former health secretary – now famous for eating unmentionable body parts of innocent animals in an Australian jungle for money – has good qualities. But it is important to remember that – most people I speak to hate him. Those who know him speak of his affableness, his energy, his sharp mind. Hancock correctly recognised that a vaccine was not only possible but probable and based his strategies on – and directed his energies towards – that end. In The Pandemic Diaries he quotes from a briefing to a newspaper: “Matt Hancock is the only person here who thinks there is actually going to be a vaccine… It’s a running joke with other departments”. If the vaccine doubters had won the arguments, I shudder to think of what would have happened. Hancock follows up the above report of negative briefing with a line that sounds like something Alan Partridge might say: “I’m certainly not going to let it deflect me from pushing vaccines at maximum speed”. It is typical Hancock: something good and then something annoying or aggravating. This is a theme of the book – and examples of the latter quickly being to outweigh the former. In fact the frustrations begin as early as the prologue. Hancock says he has produced this book “to tell the story of what actually happened, as I experienced it”. But even before we reach that sentence, his ego has got in the way. After describing the devastation wreaked by coronavirus on the country, Hancock writes “I was in the hot seat,” and follows that self-regarding sentence with another “From the first warning signs in Wuhan through to the massive national response, I was at the centre of events”. How are we supposed to feel about this – all that suffering, pain, death and loss, and somehow it’s a story about Matt Hancock? It’s more than a story about him too – it’s a chance to kick his opponents, justify himself (not least over the disastrous handling of care-homes), and persuade the haters. There are certainly more than enough of those. This book is full of the latter. When Sajid Javid sensationally resigned from Boris Johnson’s government in 2020, Hancock writes that he heard the news “sitting in my office (on my director’s chair with ‘Hancock’ across the back, a present from Pinewood Studios on a visit as Culture Secretary)”. In a fateful entry from June 2021 about the discovery of his affair with Gina Coladangelo he muses: “What price love? I’ve always known from the novels that people will risk everything”. In part the book feels like a frustrated blast from a man who, as Hancock would point out, helped lead the vaccine drive but ended up hated. The implicit plea is: how did that happen? Yet it is no wonder that Hancock cannot understand the emotions directed at him. He is the kind of person who can write, of telling his wife he is suddenly leaving her for someone else, “it was – and remains – the very worst conversation of my life”. We hear nothing of how it might have been for Martha Hancock. Perhaps it was this shameless disregard for those close (or ostensibly close) to him that inspired Hancock to choose Isabel Oakeshott as his co-author, an eyebrow-raising choice. Oakeshott, though her author bio from the publisher tactfully does not mention it, was behind the hatchet job biography on David Cameron, Hancock’s former boss, which included the salacious and untrue allegation involving Cameron, a pig’s head, and a part of the future Tory leader’s anatomy. More seriously, the addition of a co-author – for a Diary? Really? – points to a crippling weakness at the heart of this book. Is it really a contemporaneous account, or has it been burnished after the fact to reflect a golden glow on the author? He explains in the prologue that it was “meticulously pieced together” later from various papers, voice notes (I heard from one political journalist that Hancock had been recording into a Dictaphone at the end of each day), emails, texts, and also, recently, interviews. That does not necessarily mean the entries have been touched up. But there are good reasons to suspect they have been. One brief aside near the start of the book caught my eye. Hancock writes of the disgraced doctor – and harmful pusher of the MMR vaccine hoax – Andrew Wakefield that he cannot believe Wakefield “used to date the supermodel Elle Macpherson”. That entry is dated 14 January 2020. But while the improbable relationship he describes (and it was truly improbable) had dissolved by then – that fact was not known until nearly two years later, in December 2021, when Macpherson revealed she and Wakefield had split “two years ago”. Hancock could not have known they had split when he wrote that entry. That is on page 11. Thereafter whenever Hancock comes out well from his clashes with others, or makes any sort of prediction, I heard the voice of Mandy Rice-Davies ring in my head: “Well, he would say that, wouldn’t he?” Those clashes form an important part of the book. There is much score-settling with an array of opponents: Kate Bingham, Andy Burnham, local government leaders, Dominic Cummings, Boris Johnson. The latter most deservedly so – he comes across as supremely unbothered and self-centred and is notable for his absence in the early entries of 2020. After Johnson texts Hancock in October 2020 (with the second covid wave brewing fast) complaining that the new hospital in his constituency won’t be finished until 2030, the latter writes “I stared at the message, suppressing the urge to scream”. He does not suppress the urge to scream when it comes to others, but he does with Johnson. It doesn’t reflect well on Hancock that he seems so often unable to stand up to Johnson. What really rankles, though, with the score settling is the discrepancy between Hancock’s sunny, go-getter optimism and his bitter and petulant side. “Who dares bollock you?” Nadhim Zahawi asks Hancock at one point, “Unfortunately, plenty of people,” Hancock writes. I have seen this side of him myself. When I was a diarist he was the politician who was most unexpectedly spiky – in a matter of seconds he would shift from smiles to cold fury. Very few politicians are actually like this, even with (sometimes impertinent) diarists and I was surprised. After reading this book, I now know that I shouldn’t have been. He makes frequent catty, sneering asides that don’t fit with the sunshine public persona he tries to promote. The constant encounters with these two sides of Hancock – the catty and the sunny – eventually shed light on his character more deeply. The most unintentionally telling passage comes at the end of July 2020. “Today a whole posse of my ‘One Nation’ liberal Conservative friends received peerages: Ken Clarke, Jo Johnson, Philip Hammond, Ed Vaizey, Ruth Davidson and Patrick McLoughlin. They are mostly Remainers who have been somewhat in the political wilderness since David Cameron stepped down”. Hancock is a natural bedfellow of these Tories. So why is it that they ended up in the political wilderness and he did not? They stuck to those one nation, liberal conservative values – and by throwing his lot in with Boris Johnson in 2019, Hancock did not. Perhaps he decided to serve under Johnson because he believed in public service. But really, the inescapable impression from that passage – and this book – is that he did so because he is a man who loves the limelight : he was one of the first MPs with an app (‘Matt Hancock’, it is a social media-esque platform for his constituents in Suffolk), he relished the centre stage in the pandemic, he jetted off to the jungle in Australia and prime time TV, he wrote this book. Anyone hoping to learn much new about the government’s response to the pandemic is likely to be disappointed by the Pandemic Diaries. Hancock wants to be liked, perhaps even loved, and he thinks he has a fair case and can persuade people, if only they will listen. To an extent, his third place finish on I’m A Celebrity proved some of that. But when it comes to this book, Hancock’s “natural optimism” (as he refers to it) is badly misplaced. The covid pandemic was – and is –traumatic for many people in this country. In rushing out a book, attacking his opponents, justifying himself, and focusing the spotlight (both intentionally and not) squarely on him, Matt Hancock has insulted those who died and those who suffered. That incident with Gina Coladangelo, which ripped many lives apart, was no doubt deeply stressful and humiliating for almost all concerned. Part of me wonders if Hancock has gone head-first into reality TV – and being all over the media – because bullish shamelessness is the only way to survive that level of public derision. But it is a pity that such shamelessness has also impugned the dignity of so many others.
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Get Me Out Of Here after Reform Leader Nigel Farage took part last year - as insider claims 'people have had enough of seeing politicians on their screens' Several former Tory MPs who lost their seats in Labour's election landslide might be desperate for a well-paid stint on reality TV. Covid Inquiry: State failings led to mass death and suffering, damning report concludes - Health Secretaries Hancock and Hunt did not prepare UK for 'catastrophic' pandemic that killed more than 230,000 Britons Baroness Heather Hallett, delivered her first report into the pandemic, highlighting the lack of preparedness and resilience that meant the virus tore through the country. EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Rolling Stone Bill Wyman says two-year marriage to second wife Mandy Smith was a 'total disaster' Aged 52 at the time - he married Mandy when she was 18 having 'fallen in love' with her when she was just 13 - he has since been married to Suzanne Acosta for more than 30 years. Gareth Gates reveals he suffered an awful encounter with Matt Hancock after the former MP tried to spark a chat while he was sat on the loo Speaking exclusively to MailOnline, Gareth, who won the show, said the experience of having to go to the toilet next to a politician in the jungle was 'really humbling'. Matt Hancock libelled parliamentary candidate Andrew Bridgen 'to devastating extent' by accusing him of anti-Semitism, High Court hears Andrew Brigden, the former North West Leicestershire MP, is bringing a libel case against Mr Hancock over a post on X, formerly Twitter. Gordon Ramsay and wife Tana finally move back into their £7.5M London mansion after two years of renovations and multiple planning rows The celebrity chef, 57, and his wife Tana, 49, were spotted returning to the south London mansion on Wednesday which they bought for in 2002 for £2.8million. Smiling Rishi jokes with veterans in Spoons about 'the amount of people who have given me an umbrella' after getting soaked in the pouring rain while announcing snap July 4 election Going back to his Northallerton, in his Richmond constituancy, the Prime Minister joked that he avoided catching pneumonia after getting wet while speaking outside 10 Downing Street. Rishi Sunak WILL campaign today in Yorkshire - after reports claimed he would 'spend the day at home after shaky start to election' The Prime Minister has endured a torrid few days since announcing the date of the election earlier this week. Andrea Leadsom is latest to join Tory exodus: Former leadership contender to stand down at the general election as Michael Gove also announces he will quit amid growing pressure on Rishi Sunak In a letter to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak posted on X, Andrea Leadsom said she had come to the decision after 'careful reflection' but did not go into detail about her reasons for quitting. Michael Gove QUITS parliament: Cabinet minister heaps pressure on Rishi Sunak by becoming the most high-profile MP to join record-breaking Tory election exodus days after backing PM's decision to call vote on July 4 The Communities Secretary, 56, who has served under four Conservative Prime Ministers since 2015, confirmed he will not contest his Surrey Heath seat on July 4. Tory election exodus breaks John Major's 1997 record as 76 Conservatives including 'Bionic MP' Craig Mackinlay say they will quit at the next election - overtaking 75 who stepped down ahead of Tony Blair's landslide 'Cool Britannia' victory Some 76 Conservatives have now said they will stand down rather than contest the July 4 vote, one more than stepped down ahead of Tony Blair's landslide win in 1997. 'Bionic MP' joins Tory exodus after Rishi Sunak calls an early election: Thanet South's Craig Mackinlay says campaigning for July 4 is 'impossible' after losing hands and feet to sepsis as number jumping ship equals 75 record as Greg Clark follows suit The South Thanet Tory was applauded in the Commons on Wednesday as he returned from a life-threatening battle with sepsis with four prosthetic limbs. Rail Minister reaches the end of the line as Tory election exodus grows: Huw Merriman becomes latest senior figure to step down on July 4 following departure of former PM Theresa May and three ex-chancellors amid fears for hundreds of seats Huw Merriman confirmed he would not contest Bexhill and Battle, the East Sussex seat he has held since 2015. He is one of four Tories to step down today, taking the total to 69. The election exodus of the Tory big hitters: Former PM Theresa May, ex-chancellors Nadhim Zahawi and Sajid Javid, and Boris's deputy Dominic Raab among more than 100 MPs standing down on July 4 amid fears hundreds of Conservatives will lose their seats More than 100 from across all parties already deciding to bow out. And MPs now having just days to decide whether they will stand or not. Former PM Theresa May and ex-chancellor Nadhim Zahawi lead exodus of more than 100 MPs standing down ahead of July 4 general election Former Prime Minister Theresa May and ex-Chancellor Nadhim Zahawi are part of a 65-strong Tory contingent that will leave Parliament after voters go to the polls on July 4. I'm A Celeb bosses 'have been warned watchdogs will come down on them like a ton of bricks' if they continue to sign up politicians for the show I'm A Celebrity bosses have been warned watchdogs will 'come down on them like a ton of bricks' if they continue to sign a specific type of celebrity. UK's little-known deal with AstraZeneca means YOU will pay compensation to anyone injured by pharma firm's lockdown-ending jab The jab, developed in the UK, was supposed to be a shining example of British ingenuity that would banish the devastating Covid pandemic, now it's being hauled through the courts. How safe is AstraZeneca's Covid jab? What are the side effects? And why do victims only have a 3-year cut-off for compensation? All your questions answered… The jab, developed with Oxford University, can no longer be used in the European Union after the company voluntarily withdrew its 'marketing authorisation'. Kathy Burke sparks feud with TV duo Ant McPartlin and Dec Donnelly as she brands them 'f***g a****s' in shocking outburst The comedian has sparked a feud with duo Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly as she shared what she really thinks of the Geordie presenters. Moment BBC's Chris Packham holds his head in his hands before mocking Matt Hancock's London Marathon video as ex-minister reveals he's running for dyslexia charity The clip earned a less than welcome response from Chris Packham, who held his head in his hands when he was shown the video on the BBC 's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg. EPISODE 7: Straight to the Comments! - James Argent: Matt Hancock's WhatsApp Buddy James 'Arg' Argent, joins Josh and Archie. He talks his weight-loss, we get the exclusive story of how he became a missing person and discover what Matt Hancock's last WhatsApp message to him was! Lockdown trysts, parliament liaisons and romps amid the red boxes: Harold Wilson's affair puts him on the list of politicians including Hancock, Major, Prescott, Ashdown and Lloyd George who have proved that power is the greatest aphrodisiac of all Edwina Currie revealed her four-year affair with Sir John in her diaries in 2002. The sexual liaison began in the 1980s, when Sir John was a government whip. Above: The pair in 1994. James Argent reveals he and Matt Hancock are still good friends after the former health secretary 'supported' him through Channel 4's Celebrity SAS The TOWIE star, 36, admitted that the former MP 'supported' him while they appeared together on Channel 4's fifth series of Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins. James Argent reveals he's now trying to GAIN weight after gastric sleeve surgery saw him lose 14 stone He reached a staggering 27 stone during lockdown as his eating spiralled out of control. But now, TOWIE star James had told how he's keen to put weight on again. Now it's REALLY the end of the Covid era! Routine lateral flows for patients being discharged from hospitals into care homes will be axed next week It means the new system in England, enforced from April 1, will only see free tests provided to at-risk staff and residents with symptoms. NADINE DORRIES: The moment I saw an aborted foetus gasping for breath scarred me for life. Extending 'pills by post' abortion right up to birth would be a terrible mistake My months on the gynaecological ward had been the happiest and most rewarding of my short career - until I was asked to help during the termination of a pregnancy at 27 weeks. NHS patients died after eating chicken mayo sandwiches contaminated with listeria: Deaths of retired nurse, 57, and 84-year-old in hospital were linked to pre-packed sandwiches, inquest rules Retired nurse Beverley Sowah, 57, and mother-of-five Enid Heap, 84, were given the sandwiches on successive days while patients at Manchester Royal Infirmary.. Matt Hancock is humiliated by Sir Jacob Rees Mogg's son, 16, over his lockdown affair after ex Health Secretary made joke about his father being 'not a good politician' during speech to Eton schoolboys Peter Rees-Mogg, one of the Conservative backbencher's six children, was among those present at a talk at the public school in Berkshire. I'm A Celeb bosses 'ban politicians from appearing on the ITV show' following controversial signings including Matt Hancock and Nigel Farage After a number of controversial signings including former Health Minister Matt Hancock and ex-UKIP leader Nigel Farage, show bosses are said to be keen to avoid including any more. What happened to Ukrainians who moved in with celebrities and politicians? From Chris Tarrant buying refugees their very own flat, to the Tory MP who put up three generations of the same family, the famous faces who offered help Broadcasters Chris Tarrant and Rachel Riley and Tory MPs Matt Hancock , Grant Shapps , David Cameron and Robert Jenrick are among high-profile Brits to welcome refugees. They're a politician... get them out of there! I'm A Celeb bookers told to 'avoid political figures' after Nigel Farage ratings slump The order to ditch the politicians has come from ITV bosses after a lot of viewers chose to skip last year's edition of I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! The real doctor behind ITV's latest Covid drama: How Oxford-educated journalist-turned-medic behind Breathtaking led criticism of the Government's handling of the pandemic with scathing tweets while on the NHS frontline Events in the script are heavily based around the pandemic memoirs of Dr Rachel Clarke, a palliative care doctor in Oxford who was seconded onto virus-riddled wards. Chilling Breathtaking scene shows sobbing NHS doctors turning off the life support of a young nurse who died from the virus in new three-part ITV drama that has divided the nation ITV 's three-part drama illustrating the horrors NHS workers endured in the pandemic, features a scene which TV critics described as 'so realistic it will break your heart'. Harrowing scenes in ITV show Breathtaking are hailed by viewers including health workers and MPs as drama lays bare the huge impact of the Covid pandemic on the NHS Traumatised doctors, nurses and patients shared how last night's programme - based on a book by Dr Rachel Oxford - brought back memories of the first coronavirus wave in March 2020. ITV's Breathtaking is the best pandemic drama yet - even if it might make you dizzy, writes CHRISTOPHER STEVENS CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: Lurching between close-ups and chasing through wards, the handheld photography on Breathtaking was enough to bring on symptoms of dizziness. Tear-jerking scene in ITVs new three-part Covid drama Breathtaking shows patient being left to die in the back of an ambulance because pandemic-era rules stopped paramedics from doing CPR Pandemic-era rules - illustrated in tonight's 9pm episode of ITV's Breathtaking - stopped medics in some trusts from performing CPR without adequate PPE. Strict new prescription rules introduced as anti-epilepsy drug leads to birth defects Birth defects linked to potent anti-epilepsy pills have led to strict new prescription rules being introduced. Ex-boss of Covid vaccine taskforce Clive Dix fights back tears as he tells MPs that 'incompetent decisions' have left Britain ill-prepared for another inevitable pandemic Dr Clive Dix, who served as its chair from the end of 2020, said the Government 'destroyed almost everything that was going on' after trumpeting the success of the vaccines. Will tear-jerking new ITV Covid drama have the 'Mr Bates effect'? Three-part series by Line of Duty's Jed Mercurio lays bare horrors of NHS wards during pandemic's darkest days - with scenes so powerful actress Joanne Froggatt CRIED reading the scripts The minds behind a new drama set on an NHS Covid ward in the pandemic, the scripts of which reduced stars to tears, hope it could inspire real-world change like Mr Bates vs The Post Office. The Traitors creator Marc Pos reveals the hit show was turned down for FIVE years by Dutch broadcasters before it finally achieved worldwide success Dutch creator Mark Pos, the mastermind behind the show, has revealed that his hit psychological thriller was ignored about 40 or 50 times before it was gradually snapped up by broadcasters. BBC bosses 'planning celebrity version of The Traitors after show's huge success, with Wagatha Christie rivals Coleen Rooney and Rebekah Vardy being eyed-up for series' The Traitors is reportedly being lined-up for a celebrity spin-off version of the show following the success of the first two series. Ministers draw battle lines over prized Damien Hirst portrait of late Queen Elizabeth II which has bounced around five Whitehall offices in as many years Beautiful Portrait, The Queen, by Damien Hirst is one of the most highly prized pieces in the Government Art Collection and has been hung in five Whitehall offices in the space of five years. £145million: Staggering cost of Covid Inquiry so far - and it's still got another three years to run Taxpayer-funded packages have been dealt to legal firms and solicitors in England tasked with probing key witnesses, as well as data processing companies. CRAIG BROWN: What next for Nigel Farage... A turn on Strictly Come Dancing? CRAIG BROWN: So will Nigel Farage 's third place in I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! rocket him to the forefront of British politics? Nigel Farage claims he told ITV bosses to go to hell following FURIOUS row over his naked I'm A Celebrity scenes Nigel Farage has reportedly told ITV bosses to 'go to hell' following a furious clash over his naked body scenes which aired on I'm A Celebrity multiple times. I'm A Celebrity final viewing figures plummet by FOUR MILLION compared to last year as 7.6 million tune in to see Sam Thompson crowned King Of The Jungle An average of 6.6 million viewers tuned in to watch Sam Thompson be crowned King of The Jungle on Sunday night , peaking at 7.6 million. Nigel Farage defends his £1.5million I'm A Celeb fee and admits he couldn't wait for a pint after leaving camp - as he enjoys Guinness with Aussie locals Nigel Farage defended his £1.5million I'm A Celebrity fee as he appeared on Monday's Good Morning Britain after the show's final. King Of The Jungle Sam Thompson enjoys a surprise family reunion as he arrives back to luxury hotel after his I'm A Celeb win His second cousin Charlotte, 35, who lives in Australia and her mother Celia, 52, have not seen Sam in five years and found out he was participating in I'm A Celebrity on his Instagram. Around 100 girls and women have been investigated for 'illegal abortions' since Covid including GCSE student, 15, and mother whose house was searched as she gave mouth-to-mouth to her premature baby Healthcare providers claim they have seen a 'sharp increase' in requests by police to share medical records and other personal data of women who have sought help with abortions or stillbirths. King Of The Jungle Sam Thompson receives a hero's welcome after his I'm A Celeb win as he arrives at luxury hotel with runners-up Tony Bellew and Nigel Farage The former Made In Chelsea star, 31, has been the bookies favourite to win for the past couple of weeks and stormed to victory as he was crowned King Of The Jungle. I'm A Celeb fans BEG for Jungle King Sam Thompson and runner-up Tony Bellew to start their own show after their 'bromance carried the series' The Made In Chelsea star, 31, was crowned King Of The Jungle on Sunday night's episode, beating the professional boxer and Nigel Farage who placed third. I'm A Celebrity viewers hail Sam Thompson the 'most deserving winner ever' as they react after he was crowned King Of The Jungle The Made In Chelsea star, 31, has been hailed as the 'most deserving winner ever' by his fellow campmates and viewers at home. I'm A Celeb viewers are all saying the same thing as Nigel Farage claims third place in final - the same position as Matt Hancock last year The former UKIP leader, 59, made it to the final three campmates and narrowly missed out on the win - after Sam Thompson was declared King of the Jungle and Tony Bellew came second. Reality star Sam Thompson is crowned King Of The Jungle: I'm A Celebrity fan favourite says 'all my dreams have come true' as he beats boxing legend Tony Bellew in the final two after politician Nigel Farage finished third I'm A Celebrity's Sam Thompson has been crowned King Of The Jungle as he beat Tony Bellew who finished in second place. I'm A Celebrity hosts Ant and Dec call for no more politicians on the show after ex UKIP boss Nigel Farage's £1.5m signing Allies of Farage, 59, have hit out at the broadcaster on various claims over the past two weeks including cutting his airtime, breaking an 'indecency' clause. Matt Hancock defends catastrophic decision to empty Covid-infected patients into care homes: Ex-Health Secretary says MORE patients could have died without 'difficult option' in grilling over testing failures Care homes in England were forced to accept hospital patients who hadn't been tested. They went on to log more than 43,000 Covid deaths during the first two years of the pandemic. Nicola Sturgeon's habit of 'gazumping' UK government announcements during Covid was 'unhelpful and confusing', says Matt Hancock Giving evidence to the official inquiry, former health secretary Matt Hancock gave a damning assessment of Nicola Sturgeon's behaviour. Matt Hancock is let off lightly over his Covid rule-breaking affair with Gina Coladangelo as he appears at official inquiry - but fails to apologise after he was caught on CCTV kissing her in his office Matt Hancock's flouting of Covid guidelines and resignation in June 2021 was brought up during the second day of his evidence to the official inquiry. Rishi Sunak 'wanted to close schools instead of shops in Autumn 2020': Extraordinary details of Cabinet wrangling emerge at Covid Inquiry as Matt Hancock claims tougher measures could have avoided pupils being forced to stay at home at start of 2021 The Covid Inquiry heard extraordinary details of Cabinet squabbling about how to handle a surge in cases as Matt Hancock gave a second day of evidence. QUENTIN LETTS: In six hours of Matt Hancock's evidence at the Covid Inquiry all we really found out was that he loathes the The Man He Would Not Name... Dominic Cummings During Mr Hancock's six hours at the Covid Inquiry witness table, not a single rude word was said, though a few were implied. SNP rocked by discovery of intimate texts revealing two politicians' torrid lockdown affair - at the same time the party insisted Scots stayed home The secret relationship is said to have carried on during the Covid pandemic in 2020, when the SNP forced the rest of the country to stay at home under tough lockdown restrictions. Matt Hancock tells Covid Inquiry his 'single greatest regret' was to not overrule scientists who said virus couldn't be spread by those without symptoms... and says he should have followed his 'hunch' The former health secretary claimed the UK's scientific advisers told him there was no 'concrete evidence' the virus could spread between people with no symptoms. Katherine Ryan reveals she turned down I'm A Celebrity because she is 'against glorifying dangerous people like Nigel Farage' for entertainment The Canadian comedian, 40, revealed she decided to turn down the opportunity to go in the jungle because she is 'against glorifying dangerous people'. Sadiq Khan handed an ultimatum to Boris Johnson at the start of the pandemic Covid demanding the PM lock down London or he would do it himself, capital's mayor tells Covid Inquiry as he claims 'lives could have been saved if he was involved sooner' In evidence handed to the Covid Inquiry, Mr Khan told the then prime minister he would 'speak directly to Londoners with a tougher message' if Mr Johnson decided not to tell people to stay at home. I'm A Celebrity viewing figures continue to plunge as another 1.3M viewers switch off after the show's launch was down 2.2million on 2022 I'm A Celebrity viewing figures continued to drop over the weekend as another 1.3million people switched off compared to Monday's episode. Michael Gove and Matt Hancock quizzed as part of fraud probe into a PPE firm linked to Baroness Mone The move was part of the NCA's investigation into PPE Medpro, which was awarded £200 million of contracts during the pandemic. Omid Scobie's scathing book expected to blame embattled civil servant Simon Case for deepening the rift between William and Harry Omid Scobie's new book, Endgame, is thought to include accusations against Cabinet Secretary Simon Case that he planted negative stories about Harry while working as William's secretary, Mother-of-five Danielle Lloyd, 39, shows off her surgically-enhanced figure in a skimpy brown cut out bikini during a Dubai holiday Danielle Lloyd showcased her sensational figure in a brown bikini as she soaked up the sun on Thursday during a lavish Dubai holiday. I'm A Celebrity suffers ANOTHER ratings blow as new series continues to draw less viewers despite heated Dadgate row Tuesday night's instalment saw a blazing row between contestants Nella Rose and Fred Sirieix but it wasn't enough to boost viewership. I'm A Celeb's Nigel Farage admits he wants to take part in trials to get 25% of the airtime as show loses 2.2million viewers over his £1.5m signing During Tuesday's episode, the former politician, 59, told food critic Grace Dent , 50, about his plan to reach a 'new audience'. I'm A Celebrity viewing figures plunge AGAIN as 1million viewers switch off after series debut was down 2.2million on its 2022 launch Previously, the reality TV series launched with a peak audience of 7.8 million (average 7 million), down 2.2million from the show's launch the year before. UK lockdown needed to be 'earlier, harder and broader', Sir Patrick Vallance says but admits there was no scientific basis behind 'rule of six' Asked about the phrase today at the Covid Inquiry, Sir Patrick Vallance, No10's ex-chief scientific adviser, repeated his view that the UK didn't act fast enough during the first wave in March 2020. What Sir Patrick Vallance REALLY thought during Covid: Explosive extracts of No10's ex-chief scientist, who kept diaries at 'the end of immensely stressful days to protect his mental health' The notes by the UK's former Chief Scientific Adviser have been described as 'a brain dump', written 'at the end of immensely stressful days to protect his mental health'. Matt Hancock had a 'habit of saying things' which weren't true, Sir Patrick Vallance tells Covid Inquiry as he calls shamed ex-Health Secretary 'over-enthusiastic' No10's ex-chief scientist, tasked with advising ministers throughout the pandemic, blamed the former Health Secretary's 'over-enthusiasm' for making bold claims he 'didn't have a basis for'.
8744	dbpedia	0	51	https://www.gov.uk/government/news/prime-ministers-statement-on-irans-nuclear-programme	en	Prime Minister's statement on Iran's nuclear programme	https://assets.publishin…960_number10.jpg	https://assets.publishin…960_number10.jpg	[ "https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5a37dae940f0b649cceb1841/s300_number10.jpg" ]	[]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[ "Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street" ]	2015-07-14T13:24:00+01:00	Prime Minister David Cameron has made a statement following agreement being reached in Vienna on Iran’s nuclear programme.	en	/assets/static/favicon-f54816fc15997bd42cd90e4c50b896a1fc098c0c32957d4e5effbfa9f9b35e53.ico	GOV.UK	https://www.gov.uk/government/news/prime-ministers-statement-on-irans-nuclear-programme	After persistent diplomacy and tough sanctions, the international community has delivered a historic deal with Iran. A deal which secures our fundamental aim – to keep Iran from developing a nuclear weapon - and that will help to make our world a safer place. I want to pay tribute to all of those who have worked tirelessly over the last few months to deliver this deal. It has required leadership, courage and determination on both sides. Now we must ensure that this deal is fully implemented. There is a real opportunity for Iran to benefit from this agreement in terms of its economy but this will only happen if Iran delivers on all the agreed actions required to fully address international concerns about its programme. Of course, this agreement will not solve all the difficulties, especially between Iran and its neighbours. We will continue to work with our partners in the region to ensure stability and security and I hope that Iran will also follow this path.
8744	dbpedia	1	8	https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/matt-hancock-what-did-he-do-b2225485.html	en	Matt Hancock: What did he do and why do some people hate the former health secretary?	https://static.independe…h=1200&auto=webp	https://static.independe…h=1200&auto=webp	[ "https://www.independent.co.uk/img/logo-white-out.svg", "https://static.independent.co.uk/static-assets/images/newsletter/morning-headline/morning-headline.jpg", "https://static.independent.co.uk/2022/11/10/22/shutterstock_editorial_13617006b.jpg?quality=75&width=230&auto=webp", "https://static.independent.co.uk/2022/11/10/10/newFile-1.jpg?quality=75&width=230&auto=webp", "https://static.independent.co.uk/2022/11/08/22/newFile-1.jpg?quality=75&width=230&auto=webp", "https://www.independent.co.uk/img/icons/google.svg" ]	[]	[]	[ "Matt Hancock", "I'm A Celebrity", "Covid", "Rishi Sunak", "Boris Johnson", "Internal - Not for syndication" ]	null	[ "Liam James" ]	2022-11-15T14:56:35+00:00	Controversial former health secretary has drawn tears as well as confrontation in the jungle	en	/img/shortcut-icons/favicon.ico	The Independent	https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/matt-hancock-what-did-he-do-b2225485.html	Viewers of hit ITV reality show I’m A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! are tuning in each evening to watch Matt Hancock attempt to make his way in the Australian jungle. Those unaware of the politician’s past might be struggling to understand why he caused so much of a stir in the camp of varyingly famous people, with popstar Boy George being reduced to tears by Mr Hancock’s arrival. This emotional reaction lies in his role as health secretary in Boris Johnson’s government during the pandemic. Before accepting his government career was over and signing a reputed £400,000 deal to trade Westminster for the bush, Mr Hancock, 44, was known to much of the British public as the man who held the lives of millions in his hands as he led the government’s medical response to the deadly coronavirus. George, the Culture Club singer, said his mum was seriously ill in hospital during lockdown. “I wasn’t allowed to see her. I thought she was going to die,” he said, adding that he would have walked off the show when Mr Hancock arrived had she died. Mr Hancock’s exit from government was infamous, sparked by a full-page picture on the front of The Sun showing the married minister kissing an aide despite lockdown rules being in place. CCTV images showed Mr Hancock embracing his adviser Gina Coladangelo on 6 May 2021 when guidance on social distancing were still in place, with hugging between people from different households recommended against. He resigned on 26 June, after some three years in the job. It was not the first time Mr Hancock had faced a negative headline during his time in office. The circumstances of his departure caused a stir in the jungle within days of his arrival. On camp, TV presenter and property expert Scarlette Douglas told Mr Hancock there were “a lot of things that happened with you during the times, which does make it difficult because people are angry and upset – emotions are running high.” Ms Douglas continued: “It was hard. A lot of people had difficult times. And then to see that people that had kind of set the rules had then broken them, I think was a big slap in the face for everyone.” Around the time Mr Hancock resigned, Mr Johnson’s former aide Dominic Cummings had shared text messages in which the then-prime minister was said to have called the health secretary “hopeless”. Mr Cummings accused the senior minister of lying to the prime minister over promises to protect those in care homes during the first wave of Covid-19 infections by testing new residents before being admitted. Mr Hancock dismissed claims. The High Court later ruled the government’s policy unlawful, after more than 40,000 care home residents had died from causes involving Covid. The government’s scientific advisers warned in February 2020 that Covid could possibly be passed by people even if they were showing no symptoms. Evidence supporting this case built throughout March but the judge in the High Court case said there was no evidence Mr Hancock had addressed the risk to care home residents of allowing the admission of untested hospital patients. The High Court earlier ruled that Mr Hancock had acted unlawfully by handing out PPE contracts without publishing details on the recipients in the set deadline of 30 days. Mr Cummings later told a parliamentary committee that “tens of thousands of people died who didn’t need to die” during the pandemic due to government blunders and that Mr Hancock should have been fired on “15 to 20” different occasions. Mr Hancock, who in 2018 became the only MP in British politics to launch his own app, took only eight years from his first days as West Suffolk MP to rise to health secretary. The Oxford and Cambridge-educated father-of-three previously worked as an economist at the Bank of England and as chief of staff to George Osborne when he was shadow chancellor of the exchequer, before taking a seat in the Commons. The Cheshire-raised politician first attended cabinet after being appointed Minister for the Cabinet Office in 2015 by then prime minister David Cameron. Mr Cameron’s successor Theresa May later promoted him to the role of culture secretary. The 42-year-old initially threw his hat into the ring to replace Mrs May in No 10 during the 2019 Conservative Party leadership contest but withdrew from the leadership race part way through and was quick to throw his weight behind Mr Johnson, the eventual victor. After Mr Johnson’s downfall this summer, he was an enthusiastic backer of Mr Sunak and speculation persisted that he still harboured a return to a government role. He was embarassingly passed over by Mr Sunak, despite having strongly hinted in public comments that he wanted to return to cabinet. His decision to join I’m a Celebrity prompted mockery, as well as swift repercussions politically. He had the Tory whip removed on the same day news of his jungle ambitions broke and Mr Sunak said he was “disappointed” by the MP’s decision to effectively abandon his constituents for as many as three weeks. Allies said Mr Hancock would use his appearance to promote his backbench work on dyslexia, as he tried to “embrace” popular culture. “Politicians like Matt must go to where the people are – particularly those who are politically disengaged,” one ally said. Others were less flattering. Andy Drummond, deputy political chair of West Suffolk Conservative Association, said: “I’m looking forward to him eating a kangaroo’s penis. Quote me. You can quote me that.”
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Health	https://www.digitalhealth.net/2021/04/david-cameron-lobbied-matthew-gould-for-access-to-nhs-staff-data/	Former Prime Minister David Cameron reportedly lobbied NHSX chief Matthew Gould for access to NHS staff data to support the rollout of a payment app, it has been revealed. Cameron was employed as a lobbyist for Australian firm Greensill Capital, which developed an advance payment app for doctors and nurses in the NHS. The app, called Earnd, later went on to secure a partnership which saw it rolled out free of charge to all NHS organisations. Emails seen by The Times reveal Cameron had written to Gould within weeks of the Covid-19 pandemic hitting to pitch “one of the businesses I now work with”. He told Gould the Earnd app “addresses one of your key priorities: helping all NHS employees’ welfare, morale and wellbeing”. “Our ask is about electronic staff records, as Earnd will be much slicker if it can obtain access to employee data … I think some help from you would go a long way. Separately, they are seeking to gain access to trust data held by the dominant rostering system, Allocate,” he wrote to Gould in April 2020. Cameron stressed the use of Earnd was important in helping support NHS staff in the face of the pandemic. Gould replied to Cameron within hours to say he would “certainly look into the electronic staff records question”. The emails were published in full by The Times. By October 2020, NHS Shared Business Services (NHS SBS), which provides payroll services to the NHS, announced it was rolling out Earnd to all NHS organisations free of charge. At the time, NHS SBS said the collaboration was about “providing the NHS with easy access to digital technologies, which improve the lives of critical healthcare workers across the country, and save more time and money for patient care”. A spokesperson for NHSX said: “NHSX is supportive of technology that can improve employee wellbeing and make it easier for nurses, doctors and other NHS staff to do their jobs, and when services are procured this is always done transparently and following the appropriate processes. “Greensill was one of many ‘fintech’ firms which approached NHSX to discuss their products as part of our ‘innovation surgery’ but we did not enter in to any contract or partnership with them.” Gould did not meet or discuss products with Greensill or Earnd, NHSX confirmed. The loophole Greensill’s decision to offer the Earnd app for free meant it sidestepped the usual procurement rules in place, including the requirement to take part in open competition. Usually, if a start-up is looking to work with or access the NHS they would need to take part in open competition against other start-ups and suppliers. There are instances where open competition is not required but that usually applies to suppliers who have been appointed to an approved purchasing framework. There are several NHS-affiliated entities that provide payroll services and staff data is held across several organisations and government agencies, which makes it hard to access the full set of data. That’s where Cameron’s lobbying of Gould comes in. Following Cameron’s initial email, Gould passed his request on to a colleague who pursued it further with NHS Electronic Staff Records, which is run by NHS SBS. Greensill also pursued NHS SBS on behalf of Earnd. NHS SBS is a semi-private body – a joint venture company between the Department of Health and Social Care and French IT services company Sopra Steria – which meant Earnd wasn’t required to adhere to usual public procurement rules. Earnd was made available in October 2020 though the MySBSPay app, which was provided by NHS SBS. A spokesperson for NHS SBS confirmed to Digital Health News that while the app was available through MySBSPay the contract always remained between Earnd and individual NHS trusts. The first organisation to make Earnd available to its workforce via MySBSPay was the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, which has more than 10,000 employees. Earnd reportedly pledged to pay NHS SBS hundreds of thousands of pounds for every 10,000 staff members who enlisted on the app. A spokesperson for NHS SBS said the entity had not received any payment from Earnd. They confirmed three trusts had made Earnd available to their staff via the MySBSPay app but only about 450 employees chose to use it. Separate from the partnership with NHS SBS, Earnd also provided its service directly to small number of trusts [less than 10]. It’s not known how many trusts agreed to send staff data to Earnd. Greensill and Earnd both went bust in March 2020. Greensill is being wound up by administrators while Earnd has been bought by a competitor. Several inquiries are underway into the Greensill lobbying scandal after it was revealed Cameron had lobbied several MPs and high profile NHS leaders, including a private drink with the health secretary Matt Hancock.
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Instead, Oakeshott has admitted leaking the entire archive of messages to the Daily Telegraph, which is planning days of critical anti-lockdown stories about Hancock’s role in the pandemic. Setting aside the merits of the news stories being underpinned by the trove of messages, Conservative MPs and political journalists have expressed some astonishment that Hancock entrusted millions of words of his private correspondence to Oakeshott, of all people. A journalist who has long made clear her disdain for his lockdown policies, she has been accused of having a poor track record when it comes to source protection, and is in a relationship with the leader of the anti-lockdown Reform party. As Robert Colvile, the director of the rightwing Centre for Policy Studies thinktank and co-author of the 2019 Tory manifesto, said: “The main lesson I’ve learned from this is not to hire someone who absolutely hates your signature policy as your ghostwriter.” One political journalist said: “The man needs his head testing to have gone near Oakeshott with a flaming trebuchet, let alone a bargepole.” Extraordinarily, Oakeshott handed the entire archive of Hancock’s messages to the Daily Telegraph despite being paid a rumoured six-figure salary by Rupert Murdoch’s News UK to be a pundit on its struggling TalkTV channel. Staff at the Sun and the Times have been left fuming that they are now trying to follow up a story given to a rival newspaper by one of their own employees – while TalkTV has missed out on a scoop that could have helped it in its ratings battle with GB News. Oakeshott said she is only employed by TalkTV on a freelance basis and is therefore able to work for other publications. For her part, Oakeshott wrote she was morally obliged to leak the messages because “a great deal of material that is overwhelmingly in the public interest” was left out of Hancock’s book, which was published last December. She told the Guardian that her decision to share the material was based on the ideological belief that the UK must not repeat the lockdown “disaster”. She insisted she did not always plan to publish Hancock’s WhatsApps but decided to leak them “when it became clear the public inquiry had no deadline and will likely take a decade or more to conclude”. The leak is the latest step in Oakeshott’s journey from political reporter to a self-described “passionate Brexiteer” commentator, which has featured some high-profile stories that have not always worked out well for her sources. While political editor of the Sunday Times in 2011 she was in touch with Vicky Pryce, the ex-wife of the former Liberal Democrat cabinet minister Chris Huhne. Pryce mentioned that she had once taken speeding points on behalf of Huhne. In follow-up emails the pair discussed how best to deploy the information to damage Huhne’s career, with Oakeshott ultimately publishing a front page story that prompted police to re-examine the driving incident. What happened next has dogged Oakeshott’s journalism career since. The Crown Prosecution Service – led by the future Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer – requested the correspondence between Oakeshott and Pryce. A judge agreed with Starmer’s request and – rather than protect their source – the Sunday Times and Oakeshott complied with the order. The material proved to be crucial evidence at trials in which both Pryce and Huhne were found guilty of perverting the course of justice and sent to prison. Despite the convention that journalists should always do their utmost to protect their sources, Oakeshott stood by her decision to hand over the material. She said she had warned Pryce of the legal risks of running the story and insisted it was “not my job to provide expert criminal advice”. After leaving the Sunday Times she took a different approach, writing a biography of the then prime minister, David Cameron, in conjunction with the disgruntled Tory peer Michael Ashcroft. Despite extensive research, Call Me Dave failed to get close to Cameron’s inner circle and is mainly remembered for its allegation that the prime minister engaged in sexual congress with a dead pig at a decadent university party. One problem was that this tale was not necessarily true. Oakeshott later said at a book festival that she had been told the story by a Conservative MP, saying: “It’s my judgment that the MP was not making it up, although I accept there was a possibility he could have been slightly deranged.” She said she relied on a single source, and that criticism of her claim rested on the false premise “that things that are written in books need to have the same standard as things that are written in newspapers”. Her leak of Hancock’s messages is not the first time she has shared a cache of private messages provided to her by a political figure while ghostwriting a book. In 2016 she helped produce Arron Banks’ Bad Boys of Brexit book, during which she was handed the Leave.EU founder’s text messages and emails to help reconstruct a narrative of the EU referendum campaign. Two years later, having sat on the messages, she shared previously unpublished correspondence with the Sunday Times that suggested Banks had more meetings with Russian officials than he had previously disclosed. Further front pages followed when she obtained leaked internal government correspondence in which Sir Kim Darroch, the British ambassador to Washington DC, criticised the Trump administration as “inept” and “utterly dysfunctional”. Darroch was forced to resign on the basis that his position had become untenable as a result of the leaks. Yet while the story was credited to Oakeshott, it was later revealed it had come from a teenage freelance journalist called Steven Edginton who also did work for the Brexit party. He passed the story to Oakeshott and kept his name off it to avoid “possible controversy”. Some Tories also expressed surprise that Hancock entrusted his records to Oakeshott, given she is in a long-term relationship with Richard Tice, the leader of the Reform party. This is a rebranded version of Nigel Farage’s Brexit party, which hopes to take votes off the Conservatives at the next election. The duo have appeared as co-hosts of programmes on TalkTV, most recently interviewing the former chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng together, although their mixed performances have led someone at the station to describe them as “a shit Richard and Judy”. Despite her record, Oakeshott’s decision to turn on Hancock – blindsiding the former cabinet minister – is seen as particularly brutal. Just three months ago she was proudly promoting the book, appearing at its launch and writing in the Spectator that she was “not paid a penny” for the year she spent on the project but it “was richly rewarding in other ways”. She said she disagreed with Hancock on many points but concluded there was not any malign intent on the part of political leaders during the coronavirus pandemic. “They may have been misguided; and got some things catastrophically wrong, but mistakes were made in good faith.” One theory as to why she leaked Hancock’s messages is that her decision to co-write his book was causing problems for her as a rightwing pundit in the so-called culture wars. One News UK source said: “This liaison with Hancock was not good for her brand. Her brand is anti-lockdown headbangers.” As for Hancock, the politician turned reality TV star may be wondering whether it was worth writing his memoir at all. Despite Oakeshott’s assistance – and the publicity of him being on I’m a Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here! – the book sold fewer than 4,000 copies in its first two weeks. Many more people will now read the correspondence that didn’t make the cut.
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News	https://uk.news.yahoo.com/matt-hancock-says-david-camerons-return-to-government-is-brilliant-decision-145035754.html	Former health secretary Matt Hancock has hailed David Cameron's return to politics as "superb for Britain" Rishi Sunak's appointment of Cameron as foreign secretary is likely to be controversial given his Brexit legacy, and the fact he is unelected The prime minister's Cabinet reshuffle comes after the sacking of home secretary Suella Braverman, who was accused of stoking tensions ahead of Armistice Day protests Matt Hancock has hailed Rishi Sunak's appointment of David Cameron as foreign secretary as a "brilliant decision". In a post on X, formerly Twitter, the former health secretary said: "Superb for Britain - bringing his experience to guide us through difficult times." "Excellent for the @Conservatives, showing @RishiSunak will fight the election on the centre ground. Bravo." Hancock is not the only one who is glad to see such an experienced politician return to the fold, with former prime minister Theresa May tweeting: "Congratulations to @David_Cameron on his return to government. "His immense experience on the international stage will be invaluable at this time of great uncertainty in our world. Looking forward to working together again!" Cameron's appointment is likely to be controversial as many ardent Remainers are still angry at the former prime minister - a self-proclaimed Remainer - calling the Brexit referendum that his side would go on to lose. Others are uneasy with the fact that having resigned as an MP after the 2016 referendum result, he has been made a lord in order for him to fill a ministerial position. Recommended reading David Cameron latest news: Ex-PM named foreign secretary as Suella Braverman sacked in reshuffle (Yahoo News) TV presenters covering Braverman’s sacking burst into laughter at David Cameron's appearance in middle of reshuffle (Yahoo News) How happy are you that David Cameron is back? Poll of the week (Yahoo News) Hancock's praise of Cameron may not be seen as a ringing endorsement, with the former health secretary becoming unpopular with the public after he was found to have broken the Covid social distancing rules he imposed on the country during the pandemic. More recently, his reputation has taken a beating in the Covid inquiry, which heard how top civil servant Lord Sedwill urged Boris Johnson to sack him to “to save lives and protect the NHS”. Cameron has received praise from some people who've managed to keep hold of their Cabinet roles, however, with transport secretary Mark Harper describing his appointment as "an excellent move". “I was in David Cameron’s government as his chief whip. He’s a team player, hugely experienced," the minister said. “Given the challenges facing us with the war in Ukraine (and) what’s going on in the Middle East, having a really experienced person coming in as foreign secretary, I think, is an excellent move. He’s a real team player and I look forward to seeing him around the Cabinet table.” When was David Cameron made a lord? Some are uncomfortable that Cameron, who resigned as MP for Witney in 2016, can be appointed to such a major Cabinet position despite being unaccountable to the electorate. In order for Sunak to do this, he had to give Cameron a lifelong peerage in the House of Lords, whose members can also serve in the Cabinet. Confirming Cameron's appointment in a statement on Monday, Number 10 said: "The King has been pleased to approve the appointment of the Rt Hon David Cameron as secretary of state for foreign, Commonwealth and development affairs. "His Majesty has also been pleased to confer the dignity of a Barony of the United Kingdom for life upon David Cameron. The Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP remains as Chancellor of the Exchequer." Read more: How can David Cameron be a minister when he isn't an MP and what is his salary? Criticising the move, Green Party MP Caroline Lucas said: "How are elected MPs to directly question a Foreign Sec who can’t stand at Commons dispatch box? "Are major foreign policy statements to be made in unelected House of Lords now? This is unacceptable degrading of key office of state and Commons must have primacy." The Electoral Reform Society, which wants to replace the Lords with a smaller elected chamber, added: "No Prime Minister should be able to appoint anyone they like to the major offices of state, simply by making them a Lord." What does the foreign secretary do? The foreign secretary has overall responsibility for the work of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO). Some of Cameron's main responsibilities in his new role will include managing relations with foreign countries and governments, promoting British interests abroad and handling matters related to Commonwealth countries and UK overseas territories. The foreign secretary is also responsible for the work of GCHQ and the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) - also known as MI6 - while the home secretary is responsible for the Security Service (MI5). Who was the previous foreign secretary? Before Cameron, the previous foreign secretary was James Cleverly, who is now stepping into Suella Braverman's role as home secretary. On Monday Sunak sacked Braverman, who was accused of stoking tensions with inflammatory rhetoric, which was blamed for clashes between police, pro-Palestine protesters and far-right counter-demonstrators in London over the weekend. Cleverly faces a number of challenges in his new job, including an imminent ruling on the lawfulness of the government’s plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda, and will have to deal with the fallout if Number 10 loses. In a statement on X, in which he did not congratulate Cameron for taking his old job, Cleverly said: "It is an honour to be appointed as home secretary. The goal is clear. My job is to keep people in this country safe." Cameron will face a number of global crises demanding his attention as he steps into his new role, including the ongoing war in Ukraine and the Israel-Hamas conflict. As recently as Thursday, Cleverly was in Saudi Arabia discussing efforts to prevent fighting in Gaza escalating into a wider regional conflict, with Middle Eastern foreign ministers, and Cameron will face an immediate task of carrying on that diplomatic effort. Meanwhile Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky has warned of a “winter onslaught” from Russia that will require further support from the West.
8744	dbpedia	2	3	https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/david-cameron-contract-matt-hancock-b1900558.html	en	Firm won £123m contract after David Cameron urged Matt Hancock to attend genomics conference	https://static.independe…h=1200&auto=webp	https://static.independe…h=1200&auto=webp	[ "https://www.independent.co.uk/img/logo-white-out.svg", "https://static.independent.co.uk/static-assets/images/newsletter/view-from-westminster/view-from-westminster.jpg", "https://www.independent.co.uk/img/icons/google.svg" ]	[]	[]	[ "David Cameron", "Matt Hancock", "Greensill", "Internal" ]	null	[ "Ashley Cowburn" ]	2021-08-11T12:57:20+00:00	Former PM was appointed as an adviser to Illumina in 2018	en	/img/shortcut-icons/favicon.ico	The Independent	https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/david-cameron-contract-matt-hancock-b1900558.html	A firm employing David Cameron as an adviser won a multi-million pound contract after the former Conservative prime minister reportedly urged the ex-health secretary in a letter to attend a genomics conference. It comes after Mr Cameron’s work since leaving office was put under the spotlight once again this week for his separate advisory role with the collapsed finance company Greensill Capital, as BBC Panorama reported he made $10m (£7.2m). According to The Times, Mr Cameron, who was appointed as an adviser to Illumina in 2018, wrote to Matt Hancock in April 2019 “strongly” endorsing an invitation to a conference the US healthcare company had previously sent to his Whitehall office. “I understand Jay [Flatley, former executive chairman of Illumina) has sent this direct to your office, but I wanted to i) ensure that you had seen it personally; and ii) strongly endorse their invitation to this significant conference,” Mr Cameron said in his correspondence. The newspaper added that Mr Hancock agreed to attend the conference in September 2019 — which Mr Cameron also attended— after receiving the letter from the former Conservative leader. Following the conference Illumina was awarded a £123 million genetic sequencing contract — a deal that was reported earlier this year amid separate questions over Mr Cameron’s work with Greensill Capital. A spokesperson for Mr Cameron told The Independent, however: “David Cameron’s work for Illumina has never involved any discussion of commercial contracts. “It has predominantly involved promoting the benefits of genomic sequencing and the world-leading example of Genomics England to other countries around the world. He has done this in Australia, the US, the Gulf, India and more recently in online calls with interested parties in Japan and Holland”. They added: “As has been made clear on numerous occasions, David Cameron has never lobbied the government on behalf of Illumina or been involved in any contract or commercial discussions.” Mr Cameron was appointed as an adviser with Illumina in 2018 and when he applied for clearance for the role, he told the Advisory Committee on Business Appointment that he would be paid for working two to three days a month for the company. The former prime minister, who left office in 2016 following the Brexit vote, told the committee at the time he would not play any role in contract negotiations between the firm and Genomics England or the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC). “He noted the role might involve some very limited contact with UK ministers from time to time, but he was clear with the committee that he would not lobby ministers or the UK government in any way on behalf of Illumina or its partners,” they added. A government spokesperson also defended the awarding of the contract to Illumina, telling The Independent: “The contract, signed to help save lives through better diagnosis, was awarded in the correct way, through the proper process and any suggestion of undue ministerial involvement in the decision making is completely wrong.” The spokesperson added: “Extensive due diligence was carried out and as set out in the transparency notice the contract was awarded because Illumina was the only company considered to have the technical capability to deliver this crucial work. “The 2019 contract was a follow-on contract to the original sequencing contract with Illumina in 2014 and the company’s expertise is being used to help the government rollout the world’s first whole genome sequencing programme to better diagnose patients with rare disease and certain cancers.” Illumina said it “always follows the correct and necessary process in its negotiations with customers” and had worked with Genomics England since 2014 — when the company won a competitive tender process for a £78m contract. A spokesperson for Mr Hancock added: “The UK’s genomic sequencing capacity is one of the biggest in the world and has saved countless lives. Mr Hancock had no involvement in the awarding of these contracts and all normal processes were followed.” Earlier this week, BBC Panorama reported Mr Cameron made $10m (£7.2m) from his separate part-time advisory role with Greensill Capital. Documents seen by the programme showed the former prime minister cashed in shares, was paid $1m annual salary, and also got a $700,000 bonus. Mr Cameron hit the headlines in relation to the bank after it emerged he was using his closeness to current cabinet minister to try to persuade them to underwrite its loans with taxpayer cash. He was cleared of breaking any lobbying rules over the affair and his spokesperson insisted he “acted in good faith at all times and there was no wrongdoing in any of the actions he took”. However, some MPs said he showed a “significant lack of judgment”.
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8744	dbpedia	1	9	https://www.politico.eu/person/matt-hancock/	en	Matt Hancock – POLITICO	https://www.politico.eu/…co-billboard.png	https://www.politico.eu/…co-billboard.png	[ "https://www.facebook.com/tr?id=394368290733607&ev=PageView&noscript=1", "https://www.politico.eu/cdn-cgi/image/width=480,height=345,quality=80,onerror=redirect,format=auto/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/04/Ed-thorpe-park-scaled.jpg", "https://www.politico.eu/cdn-cgi/image/width=480,height=320,quality=80,onerror=redirect,format=auto/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/22/GettyImages-1240225336-scaled.jpg", "https://www.politico.eu/cdn-cgi/image/width=480,height=320,quality=80,onerror=redirect,format=auto/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/30/rishi-taytay2-scaled.jpg", "https://www.politico.eu/cdn-cgi/image/width=480,height=360,quality=80,onerror=redirect,format=auto/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/28/GettyImages-2149262789-scaled.jpg", "https://www.politico.eu/cdn-cgi/image/width=480,height=270,quality=80,onerror=redirect,format=auto/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/29/Westminster-Insider-Website-Card.png", "https://www.politico.eu/cdn-cgi/image/width=480,height=320,quality=80,onerror=redirect,format=auto/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/13/GettyImages-1705256796-scaled.jpg", "https://www.politico.eu/cdn-cgi/image/width=480,height=320,quality=80,onerror=redirect,format=auto/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/16/GettyImages-1246348016-scaled.jpg" ]	[]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[]	null	Matt Hancock MP has been Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport since January 2018. Before that, he was Minister of State for Digital from July 2016 to January 2018. Hancock entered government in September 2012 and has served in a number of Ministerial Roles, including for skills and business, and as Paymaster General. He oversaw the expansion of apprenticeships and championed the digital transformation of government. He was elected Member of the Parliament for West Suffolk in the 2010 general election where he served as a backbencher on the Public Accounts Committee and the Standards & Privileges Committee. Before entering politics, he worked as an economist at the Bank of England, and as Chief of Staff to the Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer. Hancock holds degrees from Oxford and Cambridge Universities.	en	https://www.politico.eu/wp-content/themes/politico/assets/images/favicon/favicon.ico	POLITICO	https://www.politico.eu/person/matt-hancock/	From ULEZ to fuckpigs: Westminster’s words of 2023 The POLITICO English dictionary rounds up the words that entered the British political lexicon in the past year — for better or worse. Rishi Sunak resists Boris Johnson pile-on at COVID inquiry The UK prime minister faces difficult questions over the push to reopen Britain’s pandemic-ravaged economy. Boris at the COVID inquiry: Key flashpoints From the speed of lockdowns to a macho culture in Downing Street, Britain’s former prime minister faced a two-day grilling. Matt Hancock’s cringe COVID inquiry grilling From accidentally declaring a mayor dead to chummy texts with Boris Johnson, it was a fierce two-day grilling at the UK pandemic inquiry for the former health secretary. British state ‘surprisingly bad’ at responding to COVID-19, inquiry hears Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty blames sluggish government machine for U.K.’s pandemic failings. Nigel Farage braves snakes and mud pits in ‘I’m a Celebrity’ jungle debut The former Brexit Party leader was mostly untroubled by the reptiles Nigel Farage set for testicle-chomping ‘I’m A Celebrity’ reality show The former MEP wants to show he’s ‘not nasty’ — and might have to chomp animal appendages to do so. Rishi Sunak’s Cabinet reshuffle: Every big move It’s not just David Cameron. POLITICO runs through the key appointments so far as the UK prime minister shakes up his Cabinet. Suella Braverman is the most hated woman in British politics — and far nicer than you think The UK home secretary is a bundle of contradictions. She might just be the next Tory leader, too. Britain’s COVID-19 inquiry exposes the rot at the heart of Whitehall Beyond the sweary WhatsApp messages lies a deeper British malaise. Boris Johnson asked scientists if COVID could be killed by hairdryer up nose, ex-aide claims COVID-19 inquiry hears latest claim from Johnson’s aide-turned-nemesis Dominic Cummings. Cabinet of ‘fuckpigs’ and a team with ‘no plan’: 9 Boris bombshells from the UK’s COVID inquiry Dominic Cummings and Lee Cain’s evidence rocked Westminster Tuesday. Useless fuckpigs: How Dominic Cummings described Boris Johnson’s Cabinet Sweary WhatsApp exchanges shed light on chaotic running of Downing Street during the COVID-19 pandemic. Nigel Farage says he’ll be fine in reality TV jungle after dealing with EU ‘snakes’ Brexiteer ‘seriously’ considering a stint on ‘I’m A Celebrity … Get Me Out Of Here.’ Westminster’s most gruesome rivalries POLITICO celebrates Halloween with a spook-tacular guide to the SW1 feuds that just won’t stay in the grave. Top civil servant’s damning verdict on Boris Johnson ‘The team can’t deliver anything under these circumstances,’ message from Simon Case reads. Rishi Sunak is attempting a leadership reset. He may be too late The UK prime minister hopes to revive his flagging fortunes this fall with a government overhaul. Why the UK’s economic upturn is a false dawn for the Tories It looks like a recession is averted. But will that be enough? The Westminster-Big Tech revolving door keeps spinning The US tech giants’ lobbying teams include players from across the political spectrum. Ex-UK health chief blames WHO for Britain’s lack of pandemic planning Matt Hancock tells inquiry UK had planned for ‘the consequence of a disaster’ rather than trying to halt or mitigate one. Every British MP suspended by their party since 2019 Westminster’s unwanted: endless scandals in British politics mean an accidental new bloc now outnumbers the Liberal Democrats. UK’s Matt Hancock told to say sorry after lobbying MP watchdog Hancock breaches Commons rules by backing under-investigation MP Steve Brine. Deputy PMQs scorecard: Please make it stop as Dowden and Rayner stand-in Dowden and Rayner’s Wednesday parliamentary show-down was not the best advert for British politics.
8744	dbpedia	0	50	https://www.clickondetroit.com/health/2023/06/27/uk-was-ill-prepared-for-pandemic-because-resources-were-diverted-to-brexit-ex-health-chief-says/	en	UK was ill-prepared for pandemic because resources were diverted to Brexit, ex-health chief says	https://res.cloudinary.c…?_a=DATAfRfiZAA0	https://res.cloudinary.c…?_a=DATAfRfiZAA0	[ "https://t.gmg.io/header/favicon/wdiv.svg", "https://www.clickondetroit.com/static-resources/shared/images/omneLogo.svg", "https://www.clickondetroit.com/static-resources/shared/images/gmg_dark.svg", "https://www.clickondetroit.com/static-resources/shared/images/gd_dark.svg" ]	[]	[]	[ "Matt Hancock", "Coronavirus", "World news", "Health" ]	null	[ "Sylvia Hui", "Associated Press" ]	2023-06-27T00:00:00	Britain's former health secretary has told an official inquiry that the U.K. was ill-prepared for a pandemic partly because government resources had been diverted away from pandemic planning to brace for a possibly chaotic no-deal Brexit.	en	/pf/resources/images/wdiv/favicon.ico?d=756	WDIV	https://www.clickondetroit.com/health/2023/06/27/uk-was-ill-prepared-for-pandemic-because-resources-were-diverted-to-brexit-ex-health-chief-says/	LONDON – Britain was ill-prepared for a pandemic partly because government resources had been diverted away from pandemic planning to brace for a possibly chaotic exit from the European Union without a deal, the U.K.'s former health secretary told an inquiry Tuesday. Matt Hancock also said officials had to scramble to source protective equipment, set up mass testing and contact tracing systems “from scratch” once the coronavirus pandemic broke out because the U.K.'s planning attitude was entirely “geared towards how to clear up after a disaster, not prevent it.” “The doctrine of the U.K. was to plan for the consequences of a disaster — can we buy enough body bags? Where are we going to bury the dead?” Hancock said. “Large-scale testing did not exist and large-scale contact tracing did not exist because it was assumed that as soon as there was community transmission, it wouldn’t be possible to stop the spread, and therefore, what’s the point in contact tracing?” he added. That assumption was “completely wrong” and a “colossal” failure, Hancock said. Hancock acknowledged that an official pandemic preparedness board paused its work in 2018 to 2019 because resources were moved away to focus instead on the threat of a “disorganized Brexit.” Britain's government was consumed in 2019 with the possibility of crashing out of the EU without a deal on the departure terms in place. A bitterly divided Parliament rejected then-Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit plan three times. The U.K. eventually left the trade bloc in 2020. As health secretary, Hancock became one of the best-known politicians in Britain as he led efforts to halt the spread of the coronavirus before he was forced to quit in June 2021, when he was caught breaking social distancing rules with an aide. Pictures of him kissing the aide in government offices were splashed across front pages at the time. Hancock has previously faced criticism about the U.K.'s COVID testing measures and how authorities failed to manage the spread of the pandemic in care homes for the elderly. The U.K. had one of the highest COVID-19 death tolls in Europe, with the virus recorded as a cause of death for almost 227,000 people. Hancock said an emotional sorry Tuesday to all those who died and were affected. “I’m profoundly sorry for each death that has occurred. I also understand why, for some, it will be hard to take that apology from me,” he said. Earlier, Hancock was confronted by members of the group COVID Families for Justice who held up pictures of relatives who died in the pandemic as he arrived at the inquiry in central London. The wide-ranging inquiry, led by a retired judge, aims to investigate the U.K.’s preparedness for the coronavirus pandemic, how the government responded and what lessons can be learned for the future. Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who led the U.K. during the pandemic, agreed in late 2021 to hold the probe after heavy pressure from bereaved families.
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Get Me Out Of Here after Reform Leader Nigel Farage took part last year - as insider claims 'people have had enough of seeing politicians on their screens' Several former Tory MPs who lost their seats in Labour's election landslide might be desperate for a well-paid stint on reality TV. Covid Inquiry: State failings led to mass death and suffering, damning report concludes - Health Secretaries Hancock and Hunt did not prepare UK for 'catastrophic' pandemic that killed more than 230,000 Britons Baroness Heather Hallett, delivered her first report into the pandemic, highlighting the lack of preparedness and resilience that meant the virus tore through the country. EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Rolling Stone Bill Wyman says two-year marriage to second wife Mandy Smith was a 'total disaster' Aged 52 at the time - he married Mandy when she was 18 having 'fallen in love' with her when she was just 13 - he has since been married to Suzanne Acosta for more than 30 years. Gareth Gates reveals he suffered an awful encounter with Matt Hancock after the former MP tried to spark a chat while he was sat on the loo Speaking exclusively to MailOnline, Gareth, who won the show, said the experience of having to go to the toilet next to a politician in the jungle was 'really humbling'. Matt Hancock libelled parliamentary candidate Andrew Bridgen 'to devastating extent' by accusing him of anti-Semitism, High Court hears Andrew Brigden, the former North West Leicestershire MP, is bringing a libel case against Mr Hancock over a post on X, formerly Twitter. Gordon Ramsay and wife Tana finally move back into their £7.5M London mansion after two years of renovations and multiple planning rows The celebrity chef, 57, and his wife Tana, 49, were spotted returning to the south London mansion on Wednesday which they bought for in 2002 for £2.8million. Smiling Rishi jokes with veterans in Spoons about 'the amount of people who have given me an umbrella' after getting soaked in the pouring rain while announcing snap July 4 election Going back to his Northallerton, in his Richmond constituancy, the Prime Minister joked that he avoided catching pneumonia after getting wet while speaking outside 10 Downing Street. Rishi Sunak WILL campaign today in Yorkshire - after reports claimed he would 'spend the day at home after shaky start to election' The Prime Minister has endured a torrid few days since announcing the date of the election earlier this week. Andrea Leadsom is latest to join Tory exodus: Former leadership contender to stand down at the general election as Michael Gove also announces he will quit amid growing pressure on Rishi Sunak In a letter to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak posted on X, Andrea Leadsom said she had come to the decision after 'careful reflection' but did not go into detail about her reasons for quitting. Michael Gove QUITS parliament: Cabinet minister heaps pressure on Rishi Sunak by becoming the most high-profile MP to join record-breaking Tory election exodus days after backing PM's decision to call vote on July 4 The Communities Secretary, 56, who has served under four Conservative Prime Ministers since 2015, confirmed he will not contest his Surrey Heath seat on July 4. Tory election exodus breaks John Major's 1997 record as 76 Conservatives including 'Bionic MP' Craig Mackinlay say they will quit at the next election - overtaking 75 who stepped down ahead of Tony Blair's landslide 'Cool Britannia' victory Some 76 Conservatives have now said they will stand down rather than contest the July 4 vote, one more than stepped down ahead of Tony Blair's landslide win in 1997. 'Bionic MP' joins Tory exodus after Rishi Sunak calls an early election: Thanet South's Craig Mackinlay says campaigning for July 4 is 'impossible' after losing hands and feet to sepsis as number jumping ship equals 75 record as Greg Clark follows suit The South Thanet Tory was applauded in the Commons on Wednesday as he returned from a life-threatening battle with sepsis with four prosthetic limbs. Rail Minister reaches the end of the line as Tory election exodus grows: Huw Merriman becomes latest senior figure to step down on July 4 following departure of former PM Theresa May and three ex-chancellors amid fears for hundreds of seats Huw Merriman confirmed he would not contest Bexhill and Battle, the East Sussex seat he has held since 2015. He is one of four Tories to step down today, taking the total to 69. The election exodus of the Tory big hitters: Former PM Theresa May, ex-chancellors Nadhim Zahawi and Sajid Javid, and Boris's deputy Dominic Raab among more than 100 MPs standing down on July 4 amid fears hundreds of Conservatives will lose their seats More than 100 from across all parties already deciding to bow out. And MPs now having just days to decide whether they will stand or not. Former PM Theresa May and ex-chancellor Nadhim Zahawi lead exodus of more than 100 MPs standing down ahead of July 4 general election Former Prime Minister Theresa May and ex-Chancellor Nadhim Zahawi are part of a 65-strong Tory contingent that will leave Parliament after voters go to the polls on July 4. I'm A Celeb bosses 'have been warned watchdogs will come down on them like a ton of bricks' if they continue to sign up politicians for the show I'm A Celebrity bosses have been warned watchdogs will 'come down on them like a ton of bricks' if they continue to sign a specific type of celebrity. UK's little-known deal with AstraZeneca means YOU will pay compensation to anyone injured by pharma firm's lockdown-ending jab The jab, developed in the UK, was supposed to be a shining example of British ingenuity that would banish the devastating Covid pandemic, now it's being hauled through the courts. How safe is AstraZeneca's Covid jab? What are the side effects? And why do victims only have a 3-year cut-off for compensation? All your questions answered… The jab, developed with Oxford University, can no longer be used in the European Union after the company voluntarily withdrew its 'marketing authorisation'. Kathy Burke sparks feud with TV duo Ant McPartlin and Dec Donnelly as she brands them 'f***g a****s' in shocking outburst The comedian has sparked a feud with duo Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly as she shared what she really thinks of the Geordie presenters. Moment BBC's Chris Packham holds his head in his hands before mocking Matt Hancock's London Marathon video as ex-minister reveals he's running for dyslexia charity The clip earned a less than welcome response from Chris Packham, who held his head in his hands when he was shown the video on the BBC 's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg. EPISODE 7: Straight to the Comments! - James Argent: Matt Hancock's WhatsApp Buddy James 'Arg' Argent, joins Josh and Archie. He talks his weight-loss, we get the exclusive story of how he became a missing person and discover what Matt Hancock's last WhatsApp message to him was! Lockdown trysts, parliament liaisons and romps amid the red boxes: Harold Wilson's affair puts him on the list of politicians including Hancock, Major, Prescott, Ashdown and Lloyd George who have proved that power is the greatest aphrodisiac of all Edwina Currie revealed her four-year affair with Sir John in her diaries in 2002. The sexual liaison began in the 1980s, when Sir John was a government whip. Above: The pair in 1994. James Argent reveals he and Matt Hancock are still good friends after the former health secretary 'supported' him through Channel 4's Celebrity SAS The TOWIE star, 36, admitted that the former MP 'supported' him while they appeared together on Channel 4's fifth series of Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins. James Argent reveals he's now trying to GAIN weight after gastric sleeve surgery saw him lose 14 stone He reached a staggering 27 stone during lockdown as his eating spiralled out of control. But now, TOWIE star James had told how he's keen to put weight on again. Anti-vaxxer MP Andrew Bridgen is told to pay Matt Hancock £40,000 for legal fee costs in libel war over a 'malicious' post made by disgraced former Health Secretary on social media, judge rules Mr Bridgen wants to 'clear his name' after allegedly being accused of antisemitism in a 'malicious' social media post by Mr Hancock, the High Court in London previously heard. Now it's REALLY the end of the Covid era! Routine lateral flows for patients being discharged from hospitals into care homes will be axed next week It means the new system in England, enforced from April 1, will only see free tests provided to at-risk staff and residents with symptoms. NADINE DORRIES: The moment I saw an aborted foetus gasping for breath scarred me for life. Extending 'pills by post' abortion right up to birth would be a terrible mistake My months on the gynaecological ward had been the happiest and most rewarding of my short career - until I was asked to help during the termination of a pregnancy at 27 weeks. NHS patients died after eating chicken mayo sandwiches contaminated with listeria: Deaths of retired nurse, 57, and 84-year-old in hospital were linked to pre-packed sandwiches, inquest rules Retired nurse Beverley Sowah, 57, and mother-of-five Enid Heap, 84, were given the sandwiches on successive days while patients at Manchester Royal Infirmary.. The Covid Inquiry 'is biased for failing to look at the impact of lockdown', public health experts claim Public health experts have accused the Covid Inquiry of 'bias', saying the failure to investigate the impact of lockdown makes it unfit for purpose. Matt Hancock is humiliated by Sir Jacob Rees Mogg's son, 16, over his lockdown affair after ex Health Secretary made joke about his father being 'not a good politician' during speech to Eton schoolboys Peter Rees-Mogg, one of the Conservative backbencher's six children, was among those present at a talk at the public school in Berkshire. I'm A Celeb bosses 'ban politicians from appearing on the ITV show' following controversial signings including Matt Hancock and Nigel Farage After a number of controversial signings including former Health Minister Matt Hancock and ex-UKIP leader Nigel Farage, show bosses are said to be keen to avoid including any more. What happened to Ukrainians who moved in with celebrities and politicians? From Chris Tarrant buying refugees their very own flat, to the Tory MP who put up three generations of the same family, the famous faces who offered help Broadcasters Chris Tarrant and Rachel Riley and Tory MPs Matt Hancock , Grant Shapps , David Cameron and Robert Jenrick are among high-profile Brits to welcome refugees. They're a politician... get them out of there! I'm A Celeb bookers told to 'avoid political figures' after Nigel Farage ratings slump The order to ditch the politicians has come from ITV bosses after a lot of viewers chose to skip last year's edition of I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! The real doctor behind ITV's latest Covid drama: How Oxford-educated journalist-turned-medic behind Breathtaking led criticism of the Government's handling of the pandemic with scathing tweets while on the NHS frontline Events in the script are heavily based around the pandemic memoirs of Dr Rachel Clarke, a palliative care doctor in Oxford who was seconded onto virus-riddled wards. Chilling Breathtaking scene shows sobbing NHS doctors turning off the life support of a young nurse who died from the virus in new three-part ITV drama that has divided the nation ITV 's three-part drama illustrating the horrors NHS workers endured in the pandemic, features a scene which TV critics described as 'so realistic it will break your heart'. Harrowing scenes in ITV show Breathtaking are hailed by viewers including health workers and MPs as drama lays bare the huge impact of the Covid pandemic on the NHS Traumatised doctors, nurses and patients shared how last night's programme - based on a book by Dr Rachel Oxford - brought back memories of the first coronavirus wave in March 2020. Tear-jerking scene in ITVs new three-part Covid drama Breathtaking shows patient being left to die in the back of an ambulance because pandemic-era rules stopped paramedics from doing CPR Pandemic-era rules - illustrated in tonight's 9pm episode of ITV's Breathtaking - stopped medics in some trusts from performing CPR without adequate PPE. Strict new prescription rules introduced as anti-epilepsy drug leads to birth defects Birth defects linked to potent anti-epilepsy pills have led to strict new prescription rules being introduced. Ex-boss of Covid vaccine taskforce Clive Dix fights back tears as he tells MPs that 'incompetent decisions' have left Britain ill-prepared for another inevitable pandemic Dr Clive Dix, who served as its chair from the end of 2020, said the Government 'destroyed almost everything that was going on' after trumpeting the success of the vaccines. Will tear-jerking new ITV Covid drama have the 'Mr Bates effect'? Three-part series by Line of Duty's Jed Mercurio lays bare horrors of NHS wards during pandemic's darkest days - with scenes so powerful actress Joanne Froggatt CRIED reading the scripts The minds behind a new drama set on an NHS Covid ward in the pandemic, the scripts of which reduced stars to tears, hope it could inspire real-world change like Mr Bates vs The Post Office. The Traitors creator Marc Pos reveals the hit show was turned down for FIVE years by Dutch broadcasters before it finally achieved worldwide success Dutch creator Mark Pos, the mastermind behind the show, has revealed that his hit psychological thriller was ignored about 40 or 50 times before it was gradually snapped up by broadcasters. BBC bosses 'planning celebrity version of The Traitors after show's huge success, with Wagatha Christie rivals Coleen Rooney and Rebekah Vardy being eyed-up for series' The Traitors is reportedly being lined-up for a celebrity spin-off version of the show following the success of the first two series. Ministers draw battle lines over prized Damien Hirst portrait of late Queen Elizabeth II which has bounced around five Whitehall offices in as many years Beautiful Portrait, The Queen, by Damien Hirst is one of the most highly prized pieces in the Government Art Collection and has been hung in five Whitehall offices in the space of five years. £145million: Staggering cost of Covid Inquiry so far - and it's still got another three years to run Taxpayer-funded packages have been dealt to legal firms and solicitors in England tasked with probing key witnesses, as well as data processing companies. CRAIG BROWN: What next for Nigel Farage... A turn on Strictly Come Dancing? CRAIG BROWN: So will Nigel Farage 's third place in I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! rocket him to the forefront of British politics? Nigel Farage claims he told ITV bosses to go to hell following FURIOUS row over his naked I'm A Celebrity scenes Nigel Farage has reportedly told ITV bosses to 'go to hell' following a furious clash over his naked body scenes which aired on I'm A Celebrity multiple times. I'm A Celebrity final viewing figures plummet by FOUR MILLION compared to last year as 7.6 million tune in to see Sam Thompson crowned King Of The Jungle An average of 6.6 million viewers tuned in to watch Sam Thompson be crowned King of The Jungle on Sunday night , peaking at 7.6 million. Nigel Farage defends his £1.5million I'm A Celeb fee and admits he couldn't wait for a pint after leaving camp - as he enjoys Guinness with Aussie locals Nigel Farage defended his £1.5million I'm A Celebrity fee as he appeared on Monday's Good Morning Britain after the show's final. King Of The Jungle Sam Thompson enjoys a surprise family reunion as he arrives back to luxury hotel after his I'm A Celeb win His second cousin Charlotte, 35, who lives in Australia and her mother Celia, 52, have not seen Sam in five years and found out he was participating in I'm A Celebrity on his Instagram. Around 100 girls and women have been investigated for 'illegal abortions' since Covid including GCSE student, 15, and mother whose house was searched as she gave mouth-to-mouth to her premature baby Healthcare providers claim they have seen a 'sharp increase' in requests by police to share medical records and other personal data of women who have sought help with abortions or stillbirths. King Of The Jungle Sam Thompson receives a hero's welcome after his I'm A Celeb win as he arrives at luxury hotel with runners-up Tony Bellew and Nigel Farage The former Made In Chelsea star, 31, has been the bookies favourite to win for the past couple of weeks and stormed to victory as he was crowned King Of The Jungle. I'm A Celeb fans BEG for Jungle King Sam Thompson and runner-up Tony Bellew to start their own show after their 'bromance carried the series' The Made In Chelsea star, 31, was crowned King Of The Jungle on Sunday night's episode, beating the professional boxer and Nigel Farage who placed third. I'm A Celebrity viewers hail Sam Thompson the 'most deserving winner ever' as they react after he was crowned King Of The Jungle The Made In Chelsea star, 31, has been hailed as the 'most deserving winner ever' by his fellow campmates and viewers at home. I'm A Celeb viewers are all saying the same thing as Nigel Farage claims third place in final - the same position as Matt Hancock last year The former UKIP leader, 59, made it to the final three campmates and narrowly missed out on the win - after Sam Thompson was declared King of the Jungle and Tony Bellew came second. Reality star Sam Thompson is crowned King Of The Jungle: I'm A Celebrity fan favourite says 'all my dreams have come true' as he beats boxing legend Tony Bellew in the final two after politician Nigel Farage finished third I'm A Celebrity's Sam Thompson has been crowned King Of The Jungle as he beat Tony Bellew who finished in second place. I'm A Celebrity hosts Ant and Dec call for no more politicians on the show after ex UKIP boss Nigel Farage's £1.5m signing Allies of Farage, 59, have hit out at the broadcaster on various claims over the past two weeks including cutting his airtime, breaking an 'indecency' clause. Matt Hancock defends catastrophic decision to empty Covid-infected patients into care homes: Ex-Health Secretary says MORE patients could have died without 'difficult option' in grilling over testing failures Care homes in England were forced to accept hospital patients who hadn't been tested. They went on to log more than 43,000 Covid deaths during the first two years of the pandemic. Nicola Sturgeon's habit of 'gazumping' UK government announcements during Covid was 'unhelpful and confusing', says Matt Hancock Giving evidence to the official inquiry, former health secretary Matt Hancock gave a damning assessment of Nicola Sturgeon's behaviour. Matt Hancock is let off lightly over his Covid rule-breaking affair with Gina Coladangelo as he appears at official inquiry - but fails to apologise after he was caught on CCTV kissing her in his office Matt Hancock's flouting of Covid guidelines and resignation in June 2021 was brought up during the second day of his evidence to the official inquiry. Rishi Sunak 'wanted to close schools instead of shops in Autumn 2020': Extraordinary details of Cabinet wrangling emerge at Covid Inquiry as Matt Hancock claims tougher measures could have avoided pupils being forced to stay at home at start of 2021 The Covid Inquiry heard extraordinary details of Cabinet squabbling about how to handle a surge in cases as Matt Hancock gave a second day of evidence. QUENTIN LETTS: In six hours of Matt Hancock's evidence at the Covid Inquiry all we really found out was that he loathes the The Man He Would Not Name... Dominic Cummings During Mr Hancock's six hours at the Covid Inquiry witness table, not a single rude word was said, though a few were implied. SNP rocked by discovery of intimate texts revealing two politicians' torrid lockdown affair - at the same time the party insisted Scots stayed home The secret relationship is said to have carried on during the Covid pandemic in 2020, when the SNP forced the rest of the country to stay at home under tough lockdown restrictions. Matt Hancock tells Covid Inquiry his 'single greatest regret' was to not overrule scientists who said virus couldn't be spread by those without symptoms... and says he should have followed his 'hunch' The former health secretary claimed the UK's scientific advisers told him there was no 'concrete evidence' the virus could spread between people with no symptoms. Katherine Ryan reveals she turned down I'm A Celebrity because she is 'against glorifying dangerous people like Nigel Farage' for entertainment The Canadian comedian, 40, revealed she decided to turn down the opportunity to go in the jungle because she is 'against glorifying dangerous people'. Sadiq Khan handed an ultimatum to Boris Johnson at the start of the pandemic Covid demanding the PM lock down London or he would do it himself, capital's mayor tells Covid Inquiry as he claims 'lives could have been saved if he was involved sooner' In evidence handed to the Covid Inquiry, Mr Khan told the then prime minister he would 'speak directly to Londoners with a tougher message' if Mr Johnson decided not to tell people to stay at home. I'm A Celebrity viewing figures continue to plunge as another 1.3M viewers switch off after the show's launch was down 2.2million on 2022 I'm A Celebrity viewing figures continued to drop over the weekend as another 1.3million people switched off compared to Monday's episode. Michael Gove and Matt Hancock quizzed as part of fraud probe into a PPE firm linked to Baroness Mone The move was part of the NCA's investigation into PPE Medpro, which was awarded £200 million of contracts during the pandemic. Omid Scobie's scathing book expected to blame embattled civil servant Simon Case for deepening the rift between William and Harry Omid Scobie's new book, Endgame, is thought to include accusations against Cabinet Secretary Simon Case that he planted negative stories about Harry while working as William's secretary, Mother-of-five Danielle Lloyd, 39, shows off her surgically-enhanced figure in a skimpy brown cut out bikini during a Dubai holiday Danielle Lloyd showcased her sensational figure in a brown bikini as she soaked up the sun on Thursday during a lavish Dubai holiday. I'm A Celebrity suffers ANOTHER ratings blow as new series continues to draw less viewers despite heated Dadgate row Tuesday night's instalment saw a blazing row between contestants Nella Rose and Fred Sirieix but it wasn't enough to boost viewership. I'm A Celeb's Nigel Farage admits he wants to take part in trials to get 25% of the airtime as show loses 2.2million viewers over his £1.5m signing During Tuesday's episode, the former politician, 59, told food critic Grace Dent , 50, about his plan to reach a 'new audience'. I'm A Celebrity viewing figures plunge AGAIN as 1million viewers switch off after series debut was down 2.2million on its 2022 launch Previously, the reality TV series launched with a peak audience of 7.8 million (average 7 million), down 2.2million from the show's launch the year before. UK lockdown needed to be 'earlier, harder and broader', Sir Patrick Vallance says but admits there was no scientific basis behind 'rule of six' Asked about the phrase today at the Covid Inquiry, Sir Patrick Vallance, No10's ex-chief scientific adviser, repeated his view that the UK didn't act fast enough during the first wave in March 2020. What Sir Patrick Vallance REALLY thought during Covid: Explosive extracts of No10's ex-chief scientist, who kept diaries at 'the end of immensely stressful days to protect his mental health' The notes by the UK's former Chief Scientific Adviser have been described as 'a brain dump', written 'at the end of immensely stressful days to protect his mental health'. Matt Hancock had a 'habit of saying things' which weren't true, Sir Patrick Vallance tells Covid Inquiry as he calls shamed ex-Health Secretary 'over-enthusiastic' No10's ex-chief scientist, tasked with advising ministers throughout the pandemic, blamed the former Health Secretary's 'over-enthusiasm' for making bold claims he 'didn't have a basis for'.
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For the fictional Australian TV character, see Matt Hancock (Neighbours). Matthew John David Hancock (born 2 October 1978)[2] is a British politician who served as Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster General from 2015 to 2016, Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport from January to July 2018, and Secretary of State for Health and Social Care from 2018 to 2021. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for West Suffolk from 2010 to 2024. He is a member of the Conservative Party. Hancock was born in Cheshire, with his family running a software business. He studied a Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) at the University of Oxford, and an MPhil in Economics at the University of Cambridge. He was an economist at the Bank of England before serving as a senior economic adviser and later chief of staff to MP, George Osborne. Hancock was first elected as MP for West Suffolk at the 2010 general election. Once in Parliament, Hancock served as a junior minister at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills from 2012 to 2015, and was the United Kingdom Anti-Corruption Champion from 2014 to 2015. He attended David Cameron's cabinet as Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster General from 2015 to 2016. After Theresa May became prime minister following Cameron's resignation, Hancock was moved to the post of Minister of State for Digital and Culture. He was promoted to May's cabinet as Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. In July 2018, after the promotion of Jeremy Hunt to Foreign Secretary, Hancock replaced him as Secretary of State for Health and Social Care. After May's resignation, Hancock stood in the Conservative Party leadership election to replace her, but withdrew shortly after the first ballot and subsequently endorsed Boris Johnson. After Johnson became prime minister, Hancock retained his position as health secretary in his cabinet. Hancock's tenure as health secretary was marked by the COVID-19 pandemic, which he played a prominent role in the UK government's response to. Hancock oversaw efforts to procure PPE, but the absence of a competitive tendering process for the award of some contracts proved controversial. He expanded COVID-19 testing and tracing, and also oversaw the early stage of the UK's COVID-19 vaccination programme. In June 2021, it was shown that he had breached COVID-19 social distancing restrictions by kissing and embracing Gina Coladangelo in his office. Coladangelo was at that time a director at the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), and Hancock was having an extramarital affair with her. Following this controversy, Hancock resigned as health secretary and returned to the backbenches. He was succeeded by Sajid Javid. In November 2022, Hancock had the whip suspended after announcing he would be appearing as a contestant in the twenty-second series of the survival reality television show I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!, in which he finished in third place. He stood down as an MP at the 2024 general election. Early life and education Matthew Hancock was born on 2 October 1978 in Chester, Cheshire, to Michael Hancock and Shirley Hills.[2] Hancock has an older sister and a brother.[3] Hancock attended Farndon County Primary School, in Farndon, Cheshire, and privately educated at the King's School, Chester.[2] He took A-levels in Maths, Physics, Computing, and Economics.[4] He later studied computing at the further education college, West Cheshire College.[5][6] Hancock then studied at the University of Oxford where he was an undergraduate student at Exeter College, Oxford, and graduated with a first class degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE), and later earned a MPhil degree in Economics from the University of Cambridge where he was a postgraduate student at Christ's College, Cambridge.[6][7] He was diagnosed with dyslexia at university.[8] Hancock became a member of the Conservative Party in 1999.[9] Early career After university, Hancock briefly worked for his family's computer software company, Border Business Systems,[10] and for a backbench Conservative MP,[4] before moving to London to work as an economist at the Bank of England, specialising in the housing market. In 2005, he was an economic adviser to the Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, later becoming Osborne's chief of staff.[7][11] Parliamentary career Hancock was selected as the Conservative candidate for West Suffolk in January 2010. He narrowly won the contest, defeating Natalie Elphicke (a solicitor who later became MP for Dover), by 88 votes to 81 in the final ballot.[12] At the 2010 general election, Hancock was elected as MP for West Suffolk with 50.6% of the vote and a majority of 13,050.[13][14] In June 2010, Hancock was elected to the Public Accounts Committee.[15] He served on this committee until November 2012. Hancock also served on the Standards and Privileges Committee from October 2010 to December 2012.[1] In 2011, Hancock became a member of the Free Enterprise Group, a group of Thatcherite Conservatives co-founded by Liz Truss. In January 2013, he was accused of dishonesty by Daybreak presenter, Matt Barbet, after claiming he had been excluded from a discussion about apprentices after turning up "just 30 seconds late".[16] Hancock acknowledged on social media that he was running late, but said he turned up ahead of time for the interview and was unfairly blocked from going on set by producers.[17] Barbet said Hancock knew he was "much more than a minute late" and he should have arrived half an hour beforehand to prepare for the interview.[16] In October 2013, Hancock joined the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills as the Minister of State for Skills and Enterprise.[18] In June 2014, Hancock, in his role as a minister, encouraged employers to become involved in offering more apprenticeships, allowing young people to learn and earn simultaneously.[19] On 15 July 2014, Hancock was appointed to the position of Minister of State for Business and Enterprise. On 27 July, he announced protection from fracking for National Parks,[20] seen as a method of reducing anger in Conservative constituencies ahead of the election.[21] Interviewed on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme, he rejected the suggestion that fracking was highly unpopular but he was unable to name any village that backed it.[21][22] Hancock served as Minister of State for Energy from 2014 to 2015.[23] In this role he was criticised for hiring a private jet with senior diplomatic officials to fly back from a climate conference in Aberdeen, where he signed a deal with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto to use British expertise in Mexico. A Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) spokesman said the chartered flight was organised to fit around diary commitments, and the conference was not about climate change, but it was a visit to a university and discussion about investment.[24] Hancock was later criticised for accepting money from a key backer of climate change denial organisation, Global Warming Policy Foundation.[25] In October 2014, he apologised after retweeting a poem suggesting that the Labour Party was "full of queers", describing his actions as a "total accident".[22][26] At the 2015 general election, Hancock was re-elected as MP for West Suffolk with an increased vote share of 52.2% and an increased majority of 14,984.[27] Hancock became Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster General on 11 May 2015.[23] Hancock launched a new social mobility drive to promote diversity within the civil service, outlining his vision in a speech in February 2016.[28] He led David Cameron's "earn or learn" taskforce which aimed to have every young person working or studying from April 2017. He announced that jobless 18 to 21-year-olds would be required to do work experience as well as looking for jobs, or face losing their benefits.[29] In the 2016 UK referendum on EU membership, Hancock supported the UK remaining within the EU.[30] Hancock was again re-elected at the snap 2017 general election with an increased vote share of 61.2% and an increased majority of 17,063.[31] He was again re-elected at the 2019 general election with an increased vote share of 65.8% and an increased majority of 23,194.[32] Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Hancock moved to the Department for Culture, Media and Sport as the Minister of State for Digital and Culture on 15 July 2016 after Theresa May became Prime Minister.[33] As minister for digital policy, Hancock in June 2017 recommitted to a "full fibre" digital policy. This promised that 97% of the UK would enjoy "superfast broadband" at speeds of at least 24 megabits per second by 2020.[34] In August 2017, Hancock oversaw the strengthening of UK data protection law. As Digital Minister he announced people would have more control over their personal data and be better protected in the digital age.[35] On 8 January 2018, Hancock was appointed Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport in Theresa May's 2018 cabinet reshuffle, succeeding Karen Bradley.[36] On his first day in the role he criticised the BBC for the amounts of pay its foreign journalists received, and said that some men at the corporation were paid "far more than equivalent public servants".[37] In early 2018, Hancock was the first MP to launch his own mobile app, eponymously named the "Matt Hancock MP App",[38] which functioned as a social network for him to communicate with his constituents and give people updates in relation to his cabinet role.[39] The head of privacy rights group Big Brother Watch called the app a "fascinating comedy of errors",[40] after the app was found to collect its users' photographs, friend details, check-ins, and contact information.[41] Hancock said his app collected data once consent was granted by the user.[42] The app was eventually shut down at the beginning of 2023.[43] In May 2018, as Media Secretary, Hancock confirmed the highest stake on fixed odds betting terminals would be cut to £2, after Prime Minister May sided with him over the issue.[44] Secretary of State for Health and Social Care May Ministry Following Jeremy Hunt's appointment as Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Hancock was appointed Secretary of State for Health and Social Care for England on 9 July 2018.[23] In November 2018, Hancock was criticised after appearing to endorse a mobile phone health app marketed by the subscription health service company Babylon in the Evening Standard. Babylon allegedly sponsored the newspaper article. The Labour MP Justin Madders wrote to Theresa May accusing Hancock of repeatedly endorsing the products of a company that receives NHS funds for patients it treats, which contravenes ministerial guidelines. The ministerial code includes that ministers should not "normally accept invitations to act as patrons of, or otherwise offer support to, pressure groups or organisations dependent in whole or in part on Government funding".[45] In April 2019, Hancock, who had previously said the NHS would face "no privatisation on my watch", was criticised by Labour for allowing 21 NHS contracts worth £127 million to be tendered.[46] 2019 Conservative Party leadership candidacy After Theresa May announced her intention to resign as Prime Minister on 24 May 2019, Hancock announced his intention to stand for the Conservative Party leadership. During this campaign, Hancock opposed the prorogation of Parliament to deliver Brexit and called on his fellow leadership candidates to join him on 6 June 2019.[47] He proposed a televised debate with other candidates. He withdrew from the race on 14 June shortly after winning only twenty votes on the first ballot.[49] Following his withdrawal, he endorsed Boris Johnson for the role.[50] Early Johnson premiership Hancock continued in his role as Health Secretary in Prime Minister Boris Johnson's cabinet. He supported the prorogation of parliament in 2019 by Johnson which he had previously opposed while running for the Conservative leadership.[51] On 24 September the Supreme Court ruled that the prorogation was unlawful.[52] In a September 2019 Channel 4 News interview, Hancock was asked to respond to allegations that at a private lunch in 1999, Johnson had groped the leg of journalist Charlotte Edwardes under a table. Edwardes also claimed that Johnson did the same to another woman at the same private lunch. In his reply to the Channel 4 News question, Hancock said of Charlotte Edwardes, "I know Charlotte well and I entirely trust what she has to say. I know her and I know her to be trustworthy", a view shared by fellow Conservative MP Amber Rudd. Both Johnson and anonymous Downing Street officials denied the allegation.[53][54][55] In October 2019, Hancock was lobbied by former Prime Minister David Cameron and financier Lex Greensill to introduce a payment scheme. Hancock was implicated in the Greensill scandal as the payment scheme was later rolled out within the NHS.[56] In November 2019, Hancock publicly apologised to Bethany, a teenager diagnosed with autism, for being kept in solitary confinement in various psychiatric facilities. Hancock apologised "for the things that have gone wrong in her care" and said her case in particular was "incredibly difficult and complex", calling Bethany's case "heart-rending" and saying that he had insisted on "a case review of every single person in those conditions."[57] COVID-19 pandemic On 31 January 2020, COVID-19 was confirmed to have spread to the UK. Hancock said the Government was considering "some quite significant actions that would have social and economic disruption".[58] After the government gave strict social distancing advice which was defied by large numbers of people, Hancock took a stronger line than the prime minister on condemning those still socialising in groups and derided them as being "very selfish".[59] The Government later implemented legislation banning such groups from forming.[60] On 27 March 2020, along with Boris Johnson, Hancock himself tested positive for COVID-19.[61] He stayed in self-isolation with mild symptoms for seven days, before delivering an update on COVID-19 testing targets and on Government plans to write off £13.4 billion of NHS debt.[62][63][64] In April 2020, Hancock was criticised when it emerged that the target he had set for 100,000 daily COVID-19 tests had been met only by changing the method of counting, to include up to 40,000 home test kits which had been sent, but not yet completed.[65] This change was challenged by the UK Statistics Authority[66] and labelled a "Potemkin testing regime".[67] Doctors' groups maintained that they helped deliver 45,000 masks to hospitals that did not have a sufficient supply at the beginning of the pandemic and that families of healthcare workers who died from COVID-19 had expressed concerns about the protection they got. Early in the pandemic NHS staff were photographed with poorly fitting personal protective equipment (PPE) and some made improvised gowns for themselves from bin bags. Doctors and MPs criticised Hancock for denying there was a problem.[68] On 5 April 2020, Hancock warned that all outdoor exercise in England could be banned in response to COVID-19 if people did not follow social distancing rules. He said: "So my message is really clear. If you don't want us to have to take the step to ban exercise of all forms outside of your own home then you've got to follow the rules and the vast majority of people are following the rules."[69] Hancock received criticism from journalists for perceived sexism after suggesting on 5 May 2020 that Labour MP and shadow health minister Rosena Allin-Khan change the "tone" of her comments.[70] Allin-Khan, a doctor, had stated in Parliament that a lack of testing was costing lives and Hancock suggested she should "take a leaf out of the Shadow Secretary of State's [Jonathan Ashworth's] book in terms of tone".[71] On 15 August 2020, The Daily Telegraph reported that Hancock was to merge Public Health England and NHS Test and Trace into a new body called the National Institute for Health Protection, modelled on the Robert Koch Institute. The new body, renamed as the UK Health Security Agency, was set up before autumn amid "a feared surge in coronavirus cases".[72] On 11 October 2020, Hancock denied breaching a 10 pm drinking curfew in the Smoking Room bar in the House of Commons, put in place because of the pandemic.[73][74][75] Eight days later, the Daily Mirror published a photograph of him riding in his chauffeur-driven car without wearing a mask.[76] On 2 December 2020, Hancock incorrectly claimed that the MHRA's fast approval of the first COVID-19 vaccine was possible because of Brexit. The MHRA stated that it had followed an expeditious procedure allowed under EU legislation which was still in force in the UK during the transition period.[77] In January 2021, shopping vouchers for families in need were reintroduced.[78] On Good Morning Britain, Hancock praised the Government for reintroducing the scheme, despite being repeatedly reminded by Piers Morgan that he had opposed it in Parliament.[79] On 19 February 2021, after a legal challenge by the Good Law Project, a High Court judge ruled that Hancock had acted unlawfully by handing out PPE contracts without publishing details in a timely manner. A ruling released by the High Court stated: "There is now no dispute that, in a substantial number of cases, the secretary of state breached his legal obligation to publish Contract Award Notices (CANs) within 30 days of the award of contracts." The details were published within 47 days.[80] In April 2021, it was reported that Hancock had been given 20% of shares in Topwood Limited, a firm based in Wrexham which is owned by his sister and other close family members.[81] The company specialises in secure storage, scanning and shredding of documents. It won a place on a "procurement framework" listing to provide services to NHS England in 2019, as well as contracts with NHS Wales. There has been no suggestion that Hancock intervened in the normal processes, and in April 2021, the company had not earned anything through the framework.[82] Lord Geidt later produced a report on ministerial interests saying that the awarding of the contract to Topwood could be seen to "represent a conflict of interest" that should have been declared. Hancock responded by saying: "I did not know about the framework decision, and so I do not think I could reasonably have been expected to declare it."[83] In May 2021, the former Downing Street chief adviser Dominic Cummings claimed, "tens of thousands of people died who didn't need to die" during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic due to what he claimed to be "criminal, disgraceful behaviour" within Downing Street under the supervision of Hancock.[84][85] Cummings also said that Hancock should have been fired as Health Secretary for "15 to 20" different things.[86] Following his testimony, YouGov noted that more people in the general public thought Hancock should resign than stay in his post, despite questions over the accuracy of Cummings's statements.[87] Prime Minister Johnson defended Hancock and his decision-making.[88] Over 20,000 care home residents who were elderly or disabled had died from COVID-19 in England and Wales. The High Court of Justice ruled in a case against Boris Johnson's government on 27 April 2022 that discharging people into care homes without testing them was unlawful. Lord Justice Bean and Neil Garnham ruled that the policies were not lawful since they disregarded the risk from non-symptomatic transmission of COVID-19 to elderly and vulnerable residents. The judges stated that in spite of "growing awareness" about the risk of asymptomatic transmission during March 2020, there was no evidence Hancock had taken the risk to care home residents into account. The judges stated: "The document could, for example, have said that where an asymptomatic patient (...) is admitted to a care home, he or she should, so far as practicable, be kept apart from other residents for up to 14 days. (...) there is no evidence that this question was considered by the Secretary of State."[89][90] Resignation On 25 June 2021, it was revealed that Hancock had breached COVID-19 social distancing restrictions with Gina Coladangelo, an adviser in the DHSC with whom he was having an extramarital affair, after CCTV images of him kissing and embracing her in his Whitehall office on 6 May were published in The Sun newspaper.[91] The Government's guidelines allowed intimate contact with people from a different household only from 17 May.[91] The previous year, Hancock had failed to declare he had appointed Coladangelo as an unpaid adviser at the department and later to a paid non-executive director role on its board, for which Coladangelo would earn between £15,000 and £20,000 annually from public funds.[92][93] Coladangelo became a close friend of Hancock after meeting him while they were both undergraduates at Oxford University.[92][94] Later that day on 25 June, Hancock said that he had "breached the social distancing guidelines in these circumstances" and apologised for "letting people down".[95] Boris Johnson later said that he accepted the apology and considered the matter "closed".[96] However, Hancock resigned on the evening of 26 June, stating "those of us who make these rules have got to stick by them", and he had not because of his "breaking the guidance".[97][98] He was replaced as Health Secretary the same day by Sajid Javid.[99] Former Cabinet ministers Alan Johnson and Rory Stewart both said there had never been cameras in their offices during their time in Government, with Johnson saying: "I could never understand why there was a camera in the Secretary of State's office. There was never a camera in my office when I was Health Secretary or in any of the other five Cabinet positions."[100] It was reported that the CCTV footage was leaked by a DHSC employee who opposed the Government's lockdown restrictions, and on 27 June it was confirmed that an internal investigation was undertaken by the department to find the culprit, for fear of future CCTV footage being leaked to states hostile to the UK, for the purposes of blackmail.[101] News of the scandal was met with a mixture of public anger and ridicule.[102][103] The Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice group warned that Hancock's actions could undermine adherence to COVID-19 restrictions, similar to the Dominic Cummings scandal.[104] Amanda Milling, Co-chairman of the Conservative Party, suggested that Hancock's affair was a factor in the Conservative Party's failure to win the Batley and Spen by-election on 1 July 2021.[105] In July 2021, the Information Commissioner's Office established an inquiry into the leak in the CCTV images.[106] On 29 July, the council of the second largest town in his constituency, Newmarket, passed a no-confidence vote against Hancock as its MP.[107] Mayor Michael Jefferys cast the necessary vote to pass the motion.[108] According to the Independent, Hancock faced severe criticism due to a shortage of PPE in the NHS early in the pandemic, the award of contracts for supplying masks and the decision to transfer elderly patients to care homes without COVID-19 testing.[109] Hancock defended his handling of the pandemic and stated: "We suddenly needed masses more PPE and so did everybody else in the world."[109] Return to the backbenches On 12 October 2021, Hancock announced his appointment as the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa special representative for financial innovation and climate change,[110] an unpaid position advising the Commission on the African economy's recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.[111] Four days later, the United Nations announced on 16 October that the offer had been rescinded.[112][113] During the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Hancock welcomed seven Ukrainian refugees into his family home in Suffolk in May 2022 through the "Homes for Ukraine" scheme.[114][115] In December 2022, he announced his intention to stand down at the 2024 general election.[116] In June 2023, Hancock was told to apologise to Parliament after being found to have breached the MPs Code of Conduct, by committing a “minor breach” of Commons rules by sending an unsolicited letter to the parliamentary standards commissioner in an attempt to influence the commissioner's investigation into fellow Conservative MP Steve Brine.[117] Pandemic Diaries Main article: Pandemic Diaries In April 2022, it was announced that Hancock would publish his diaries during the COVID-19 pandemic called Pandemic Diaries with Biteback Publishing, cowritten by Isabel Oakeshott.[118] The royalties were planned to be donated to NHS charities.[119][120] The book was to be released in December 2022. The book was not based on a diary, but was written after the fact. It was based on Hancock's recollections, as well his records of communications.[118][121] It dismissed allegations that moving patients into care homes caused deaths, arguing that the staff in care homes were the vector of disease.[118] The book was also critical of Dominic Cummings.[118][122] Reviews commented that the book presented too positive an image, making Hancock seem unduly prescient with the benefit of hindsight, arguing there may be elements of revisionism.[118][123] Gaby Hinsliff reviewing in The Guardian said that there were kernels of truth about how politicians make decisions in the account but comments on how the book was written with the benefit of hindsight, allowing Hancock to make himself seem prescient.[118] Rod Dacombe writing in the i, said that the diary was absurd and devoid of literary flair.[124] Adam Wagner, writing in Prospect magazine, said that the book had a focus on score settling and self-aggrandisation but that there were some genuine revelations. He noted that more will be known when the UK Covid-19 Inquiry reports.[125] Wagner argues Hancock's removal of exceptions for protest from proposed lockdown regulations on the grounds that protests could undermine public trust in measures and his criticism of protestors in the book are suggestive that protests were banned based on the political views of protestors, which Wagner thinks would likely constitute government overreach.[125] Oakeshott leaked some of the private WhatsApp messages she had access to in a Daily Telegraph article published in February 2023. The Telegraph published a series of articles about these leaks in a series called The Lockdown Files.[126] One message from April 2020 suggests Hancock told aides that professor Chris Whitty had done "an "evidence review" and recommended "testing of all going into care homes, and segregation whilst awaiting result". Hancock allegedly stated this was a "good positive step". Later, Hancock allegedly stated he would rather avoid a commitment to test all people going into care homes from the community and "just commit to test & isolate ALL going into care from hospital".[127] A spokesman for Hancock said, "These stolen messages have been doctored to create a false story that Matt rejected clinical advice on care home testing".[128] Appearance on I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! Hancock was a contestant on the 22nd series of the reality television series I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!, filmed while Parliament was in session.[121] An agreement was reached with the show's producers that Hancock could communicate with his constituency team throughout his time in the jungle if necessary.[129] Explaining his decision to participate in the show, Hancock said, "I want to raise the profile of my dyslexia campaign to help every dyslexic child unleash their potential — even if it means taking an unusual route to get there, via the Australian jungle"![121] Hancock also explained that he was driven by the intention to display his "human side" and to use reality TV as a means to convey "important messages to the masses".[130] It was reported that Hancock would be paid £400,000, which was "one of the largest show fees" paid to a contestant. His spokesman said that a donation would be made to St Nicholas Hospice in Suffolk and causes supporting dyslexia.[129] Hancock joined the show on 9 November 2022 with comedian Seann Walsh.[131] After he entered the jungle camp, Hancock was questioned by his fellow contestants, including Charlene White, Scarlette Douglas and Babatunde Aléshé, about his time as Health Secretary.[132][133] Although he expressed remorse about breaking social distancing guidelines, he pointed out that he had not broken any laws and said that he did not regret the political decisions he made during the pandemic.[109] On the episode aired on 16 November 2022, Hancock said that he told Boris Johnson not to run for prime minister again during the October 2022 Conservative Party leadership election, and said that former prime minister Liz Truss's political career is "totally finished" with "no ambiguity at all."[134] On 27 November 2022, Hancock finished in 3rd place.[135][136] Reaction Within the show Hancock's participation in the show was met with a mixed reaction by some of the other contestants. In the episode aired on 18 November 2022, fellow contestant Boy George said in a conversation with Seann Walsh that he found Hancock "slimy and slippery", and later told Hancock that he found it difficult to "separate" the politician from the person.[137] Another contestant, journalist Charlene White, said she feared she would lose her job if she was too sympathetic towards Hancock.[138] By others In response to participating in the show, the Conservative Party suspended the whip for Hancock—in effect removing him from their parliamentary group but retaining him as a party member.[139][140] On 5 November, it was reported that an online petition to stop Hancock from appearing on the show had attracted nearly 40,000 signatures.[141] The Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice and 38 Degrees groups flew a banner over the camp which read: "Covid bereaved say get out of here!".[142][143] Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, who had worked with Hancock during his tenure as chancellor, said he was "disappointed" at Hancock's decision to participate in a reality television show and expressed his discomfort at the level of degradation Hancock was subjecting himself to.[144][145] Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards Kathryn Stone stated her office had received "dozens of complaints" about Hancock being on the television show. Stone said that Hancock's decision to join the show raised "important questions about members' proper activities while they're supposed to be fulfilling their parliamentary duties and representing their constituents".[146] Ofcom received just under 2,000 complaints about the show in its first week, including complaints over his appearance on the show and complaints criticising how Hancock was treated by other contestants.[147] Hancock broke government rules about post-ministerial jobs by not consulting the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments before he joined the show, according to Lord Pickles, the committee chair. However, Lord Pickles advised ministers that taking action against Hancock would be disproportionate.[148] On 23 May 2024, Rishi Sunak restored the whip to Hancock.[149][150] Personal life Hancock married Martha Hoyer Millar, an osteopath, in 2006.[2] She is a granddaughter of the 1st Baron Inchyra.[151] They have a daughter and two sons. Hancock forbids his children to use social media.[7][152] The family lived in Little Thurlow in his West Suffolk parliamentary constituency.[153] In June 2021, following an affair with his political aide Gina Coladangelo, sources reported that he had left his wife for Coladangelo.[154] Hancock confirmed he was still with Coladangelo during a conversation with Babatunde Aléshé on I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!.[155][156][157] Hancock lives in his constituency, and also has a flat in London.[158] Hancock trained as a jockey in 2012 and won a horse race in his constituency town of Newmarket.[4] Hancock supports Newcastle United, and auctioned his "pride and joy" signed team shirt to raise money for the NHS in May 2020.[159][160] Hancock told The Guardian in 2018 that he has dyslexia, something that he said first became apparent two decades earlier while he was studying at Oxford.[161] On 25 January 2023, police arrested a 61-year-old man for allegedly assaulting Hancock on the London Underground.[162] Notes References Official website Profile at Parliament of the United Kingdom Contributions in Parliament at Hansard Voting record at Public Whip Record in Parliament at TheyWorkForYou
8744	dbpedia	0	93	https://www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/hancock-replaces-vaizey-culture-minister/1402539	en	Hancock replaces Vaizey as culture minister	https://cached.imagescal…718072345504.jpg	https://cached.imagescal…718072345504.jpg	[ "https://static.campaignlive.co.uk/img/logoSmallUK.gif", "https://static.campaignlive.co.uk/img/buttons/menu.png", "https://cached.imagescaler.hbpl.co.uk/resize/scaleWidth/52/cached.offlinehbpl.hbpl.co.uk/newsauthors/OMC/Omar-crop-new.jpg", "https://cached.imagescaler.hbpl.co.uk/resize/scaleWidth/743/cached.offlinehbpl.hbpl.co.uk/news/OMC/ev-20160718072345504.jpg", "https://cached.imagescaler.hbpl.co.uk/resize/scaleWidth/181/cached.offlinehbpl.hbpl.co.uk/news/OMC/kb-20160714030432150.jpg", "https://cached.imagescaler.hbpl.co.uk/resize/scaleWidth/181/cached.offlinehbpl.hbpl.co.uk/news/OMC/whit-2016071410214756.jpg", "https://cached.imagescaler.hbpl.co.uk/resize/scaleWidth/181/cached.offlinehbpl.hbpl.co.uk/news/OMC/ecig-20160628063738368.jpg", "https://cached.imagescaler.hbpl.co.uk/resize/scaleWidth/181/cached.offlinehbpl.hbpl.co.uk/news/OMC/jw-20160512071026589.jpg", "https://static.campaignlive.co.uk/img/logoSmallUK.gif", "https://api.hbpl.co.uk/Article/ViewCount/1402539", "https://cached.imagescaler.hbpl.co.uk/resize/scaleWidth/173/cached.offlinehbpl.hbpl.co.uk/news/OMC/GettyImages-1328336783.jpgres.jpg", "https://cached.imagescaler.hbpl.co.uk/resize/scaleWidth/173/cached.offlinehbpl.hbpl.co.uk/news/OMC/MixCollage-21-Mar-2024-08-28-AM-1246.jpg", "https://cached.imagescaler.hbpl.co.uk/resize/scaleWidth/173/cached.offlinehbpl.hbpl.co.uk/news/OMC/CL24MikeMassaro_MM85172.jpgres.jpg", "https://cached.imagescaler.hbpl.co.uk/resize/scaleWidth/173/cached.offlinehbpl.hbpl.co.uk/news/OMC/GettyImages-1345137109.jpgres.jpg", "https://www.campaignlive.co.uk/_hbi_ui/basesitenet/img/responsive/logoHaymarket.svg", "https://www.campaignlive.co.uk/_hbi_ui/basesitenet/img/responsive/ipso.svg" ]	[]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[ "Omar Oakes" ]	2016-07-18T07:23:34+00:00	Ed Vaizey has stepped down as the government's minister for culture after six years in the role.	en	/apple-touch-icon.png		https://www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/hancock-replaces-vaizey-culture-minister/1402539?utm_source=website&utm_medium=social	The Conservative MP, who served as minister for culture, communications and creative industries since 2010. Vaizey has been replaced by Matthew Hancock, the former business minister, who has become minister for digital policy in the department for culture, media and sport. Both men confirmed their new roles on Twitter late on Friday evening, two days after Theresa May replaced David Cameron as prime minister. As part of May's reshuffle, John Whittingdale was replaced as culture media and sport secretary by Karen Bradley, a former Home Office minister. Vaizey's career in Westminster has been dominated by the culture brief, having been a culture minister for the entire length of Cameron's premiership since May 2010. While the Conservatives were in opposition, Vaizey was a shadow culture spokesman for nearly four years. Hancock, who has been an MP since 2010, entered the government in 2013 as a skills and enterprise minister, before becoming an energy minister in 2014. After the general election in 2015 he was appointed by Cameron as the paymaster general and minister for the cabinet office.
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8744	dbpedia	1	71	https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/04/14/came-j01.html	en	Former UK Prime Minister David Cameron in Greensill lobbying scandal	https://www.wsws.org/asset/5fdcc151-4679-43d9-81bf-70f2c0992540?rendition=image1280&v=3		[ "https://www.wsws.org/static/img/wswslogo4red.png", "https://www.wsws.org/static/img/wswslogo4red.png", "https://www.wsws.org/static/img/wswslogo4red.png", "https://www.wsws.org/static/img/wswslogo4red.png", "https://www.wsws.org/static/img/wswslogo4red.png", "https://www.wsws.org/static/img/wswslogo4red.png", "https://www.wsws.org/asset/191591ad-00cf-471a-93fe-8c399b781394?rendition=image1280&v=3", "https://www.wsws.org/asset/5fdcc151-4679-43d9-81bf-70f2c0992540?rendition=image1280&v=3", "https://www.wsws.org/asset/a267e9a9-a360-4724-b0af-db66239b3337?rendition=image1280&v=2", "https://www.wsws.org/asset/306a06b9-8d68-48fc-a905-ae307559f40f?rendition=image1280&v=2", "https://piwik.wsws.org/analytics/piwik/piwik.php?idsite=1&rec=1" ]	[]	[]	[ "David Cameron", "Greensill Capital", "Sanjeev Gupta", "Boris Johnson", "Tony Blair" ]	null	[]	2021-04-14T00:00:00	For all the sudden widespread outrage over lobbying, the type of grubby wheeling and dealing exposed in the Cameron/Greensill affair is the most open secret in bourgeois politics.			World Socialist Web Site	https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/04/14/came-j01.html	Former Tory Prime Minister David Cameron has been exposed for using his personal and political connections to lobby the government on behalf of financial services company Greensill Capital. Greensill went into administration in March after the German regulatory authority filed a complaint about suspected balance sheet manipulation and several insurance groups withdrew their cover. The company was heavily exposed financially to GFG Alliance, run by Sanjeev Gupta, which also faces collapse. Cameron resigned as prime minister in 2016 and became an advisor for Greensill in 2018. According to an investigation by the Sunday Times, Cameron made repeated appeals to senior government ministers last year to secure access for the company to the Tory’s COVID-19 corporate slush fund. Just hours after the company was denied access to loans through the Covid Corporate Financing Facility (CCFF), Cameron e-mailed Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s senior special adviser to demand the government reconsider. He wrote, “What we need is for [Chancellor] Rishi [Sunak] to have a good look at this and ask officials to find a way of making it work.” He also sent multiple texts to Sunak’s personal phone and called two junior Treasury ministers. Sunak sent a message back to Cameron explaining he had “pushed the team” to reconsider Greensill’s proposals. After having originally given Greensill a firm “no”, the department went on to have nine meetings with the company over a two-and-a-half-month period. The Treasury ultimately still rejected Greensill for the CCFF scheme, but the company was allowed to lend out £400 million in taxpayer-backed loans under the Coronavirus Large Business Interruption Loan Scheme—all of it to a single steel empire, owned by Gupta, despite the maximum for any one group being £50 million. As a result of Greensill’s financial collapse, thousands of jobs are under threat in Britain, France and Australia if companies owned by Gupta, once touted as the “saviour of steel,” are forced into administration and possibly wound up. Cameron held tens of millions of pounds worth of Greensill share options, reportedly telling friends he was set to earn as much as £60 million personally—taking him into the super-rich territory of former Labour Prime minister Tony Blair, who has raked in between £30 and £50 million since leaving office in 2007. Cameron had been able to peddle his political connections for the company before. In 2019, again according to the Times, Cameron arranged for a “private drink” between himself, Greensill founder and billionaire Lex Greensill and Health Secretary Matt Hancock to discuss a new payment scheme for the National Health Service (NHS). That meeting led—via Lord Prior, the chairman of NHS England and a minister under Cameron—to Greensill securing a contract with NHS Shared Business Services, managing the payroll for 400,000 NHS workers, all achieved without any competitive tendering process or transparency. The payroll service, provided by Greensill subsidiary Earnd, allowed workers to receive their salaries daily or weekly, with money provided by Greensill, which would later be recouped from the NHS. Two senior former employees told the Times that the plan was to monetise the NHS’s future payments by turning them into bonds and selling them internationally. Earnd was planning to roll the system out to other NHS trusts until the company filed for administration last month. A similar early payment scheme, also run by Greensill, had already been established for pharmacies. The policy was developed by none other than Lex Greensill himself while working as an advisor to David Cameron when he was prime minister—a position he gained in 2012. Also in 2019, Cameron attended a genomics conference on behalf of American private healthcare company Illumina, for which he is a paid adviser. Hancock was among the attendees. Shortly afterwards, Illumina was awarded a £123 million contract with the Department of Health. While prime minister, Cameron had announced a £78 million deal between Genomics England and Illumina. He then joined the company as a consultant and chairman of its international advisory board in 2017. The scandal over Cameron’s use of his political connections has lifted the rock on the sordid world of corporate lobbying and sent the UK’s political elite scrambling for cover. After keeping silent on the issue for weeks, Cameron delivered a 1,800-word statement to Associated Press on Saturday. Insisting he had broken “no codes of conduct and no government rules,” and that it was “right” for him to contact the government on behalf of Greensill. He said, “There are important lessons to be learned. As a former prime minister, I accept that communications with government need to be done through only the most formal of channels, so there can be no room for misinterpretation.” Labour shadow minister Rachel Reeves said the Greensill scandal was “just the tip of the iceberg in Conservative cronyism, which has been endemic during the pandemic and long before”. But all Labour proposes is a vote by MPs Wednesday for a parliamentary inquiry into lobbying. In an attempt to stem a crisis that reaches into the heart of government, Prime Minister Boris Johnson ordered a formal inquiry which will examine “issues of supply chain finance and the role Greensill played” and “the way contracts were secured”. However, Johnson was careful to ensure that the inquiry will have no legal powers. Its toothlessness was confirmed by Cameron, who announced he would “be glad to take part”. According to the Guardian, the man chosen to lead the investigation, Nigel Boardman, was a partner at law firm Slaughter and May in 2013 when it opposed, ironically, a few tame lobbying reforms Cameron had proposed. It argued that the measures “may have the effect of stifling productive, even essential, dialogue between legislators and those who consider the implications and practicalities of relevant legislation on a day-to-day basis.” As for the sudden widespread outrage over lobbying, the type of grubby wheeling and dealing exposed in the Cameron/Greensill affair is the most open secret in bourgeois politics. Cameron himself warned in 2010 after the MPs expenses scandal —in a doubtless much-rued piece of political posturing—that “the far-too-cosy relationship between politics, government, business and money” was “the next big scandal waiting to happen”. He was one to know. According to the i newspaper, at least 66 members of Cameron’s 2010-2015 government have since taken up private sector jobs with links to their former government portfolio within two years of stepping down. Most prominent among them is former Chancellor George Osborne, who became an adviser to asset manager BlackRock while still an MP, being paid £650,000 a year for four days a month work. He was also paid £800,000 for 12 speeches, mainly to financial firms, before leaving parliament and is reported to have received £500,000 a year in speaking fees since. After standing down as an MP in April 2017, Osborne became the editor of the London Evening Standard, paid £200,000 a year for a four-day week. He recently gave up his BlackRock and Evening Standard positions to work for boutique investment banker Robey Warshaw. He will keep his position as chair of investment firm Exor’s advisory committee. Another former Tory chancellor, Philip Hammond, has notified the appointments watchdog of 13 different jobs or consultancy positions in less than two years. These include roles as a partner at fund manager Buckthorn, senior adviser at bank OakNorth and non-executive director at packaging company Ardagh Group. Sajid Javid, a former chancellor under Johnson for less than a year, was appointed as a senior adviser to bank JP Morgan, receiving £150,000 a year, almost as soon as he left office. To the extent that “lobbying” refers to a process of one party seeking to influence another separate party for financial gain, the term is somewhat outdated. The sated social layers staffing the government and the upper echelons of big business are one and the same, moving seamlessly between government offices and corporate boardrooms. Cameron entered government with an estimated personal wealth of around £3 million, Osborne around £4 million and Hammond £9 million. Javid was reportedly earning £3 million a year at Deutsche Bank before he moved into politics and owns multimillion-pound homes in Fulham and Chelsea. Johnson, who is used to such levels of wealth, was described as “miserable” by close friends last year, due to being forced to live on a measly salary of £150,000 as prime minister. The current chancellor, Sunak, understood to be the richest MP in the House of Commons, is married to the daughter of an Indian multi-billionaire. Her fortune is estimated to be higher than the Queen’s. This is government of, by and for a super-rich oligarchy, dedicated to preserving the immense fortunes of a parasitic elite. The Cameron/Greensill scandal exposes the real class relations in a country run by and for the financial oligarchy. Cameron and his ilk expect and receive the best access to the highest levels of government where they issue their demands on behalf of big business. Cameron will be treated with kid gloves and at most might face a slap on the wrist. In sharp contrast, the government is cracking down and illegalising any form of protest by the working class and is impervious to all demands to protect jobs, health and education and services.
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Get Me Out Of Here may have courted their most controversial name yet by including former health secretary Matt Hancock. Heading to Australia to join the camp as a late addition, Hancock's involvement in the show has already proven to be divisive – with some viewers even threatening to switch off. Read more: 'I'm a Celebrity' 2022 cast: Full list of contestants, from Matt Hancock to Mike Tindall Will he be able to win over the audience? Or is he destined for a month of public-voted Bushtucker trials? Here's what you need to know about him... Who is Matt Hancock? Born October 2nd, 1978, Matt Hancock was born to Michael and Shirley Hancock (now Carter), and is the youngest of three siblings. In 1999, he joined the Conservative party. Before becoming an MP, he was an economist for the Bank of England. Read more: 'This Morning' hit with complaints over Phillip Schofield's dyslexia comments to Matt Hancock In May 2010, Hancock was voted Conservative MP for West Suffolk. He became Minister for the Cabinet Office in 2015 under David Cameron, and in January 2018 was promoted to Culture Secretary under Theresa May's government. He worked in the position for seven months before being promoted to Health Secretary. After May quit her position as Prime Minister in June 2019, Hancock made a bid for the top position, only to pull out shortly thereafter after failing to get enough support within the Conservative Party. The role eventually went to Boris Johnson, who remained in the role before quitting in August 2022. But he is most known for becoming one of the leading roles in the UK's tackling of the coronavirus pandemic in March 2022, initiating lockdown procedures and their subsequent failed attempts at reopening the country before they were closed down again. Read more: 'I'm a Celebrity' fans react to Matt Hancock rumours In June 2021, The Sun published photographs of him having an affair with advisor Gina Coladangelo in his Whitehall office, during the period he was publicly telling people to stay away from loved-ones and social distance. This clear breach of social guidelines led to him resigning from his position as Health Secretary after national outcry and increased distrust in the government. Around this time he separated from his wife, Martha, whom he'd been married to since 2006 and shares three children. Following the news of his appearance on I'm A Celebrity, which will take place while Parliament is in session, the Prime Minister suspended his Tory whip, essentially making him an independent member of the House of Commons. Who's angry about Matt Hancock joining 'I'm A Celebrity' 2022? Hancock's appearance on I'm A Celebrity has caused outcry both among politicians and the general public alike, especially as it's believed he will be paid £400,000 for his stint – making him one of the most expensive celebs in the show's history. Members of the COVID-19 Bereaved Families for Justice group launched a petition to have Hancock removed from the line-up, and it surpassed 20,000 signatures in two days. MPs are not pleased with the decision either, with many mocking his decision to take part. Among them, SNP MP Pete Wishart stated: "It speaks volumes that Matt Hancock would rather be stranded in a remote jungle eating kangaroo testicles than spend a moment longer on the Tory benches at Westminster, as Rishi Sunak’s government lurches from one crisis to another." Other papers and fan bases are filing to have him be assigned every Bushtucker trial. Read more: 'I'm A Celebrity': All of the winners so far Olly Nash, executive producer of I'm A Celebrity, has defended the decision and told ITV News: "We’ve put in loads of politicians over the years, we also put in people who have had very strong views about certain things and sometimes it plays out in camp and sometimes it doesn’t. "It’s not a question of trying to divide camp, we have never been a deliberately divisive camp. It’s up to them to come into the camp and it’s up to them if they want to leave." What has Matt Hancock said about appearing on the show? Ahead of his appearance on the show, Hancock released a self-written piece to The Sun explaining his decision to take part, saying it was to raise awareness for the Dyslexia Screening and Teacher Training Bill which is due to get its second screening in Parliament shortly after I'm A Celebrity ends. He joked he "hadn't lost his marbles" and wanted to reach out to those who have become disengaged with politics, bringing it to a platform they would be more willing to pay attention to. Read more: 'I'm A Celebrity' champ Danny Miller says public will use Matt Hancock as a ‘toy’ "While there will undoubtedly be those who think I shouldn’t go, I think it’s a great opportunity to talk directly to people who aren’t always interested in politics, even if they care very much about how our country’s run," he wrote. "It’s our job as politicians to go to where the people are — not to sit in ivory towers in Westminster." "I think it’s patronising to hear some say reality TV is beneath a politician. We all know that many people are turned off by the aggressive ‘gotcha’ questioning and insider presumptions of political news," he added. "Reality TV is a very different way to communicate with the electorate — it’s both honest and unfiltered."
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"https://www.parallelparliament.co.uk/static/UK_Parliament/img/mp_images/thumbnail/debate_image/4070-60x60_debate_image.jpg", "https://www.parallelparliament.co.uk/static/UK_Parliament/img/mp_images/thumbnail/debate_image/4070-60x60_debate_image.jpg", "https://www.parallelparliament.co.uk/static/UK_Parliament/img/mp_images/thumbnail/debate_image/36-60x60_debate_image.jpg" ]	[]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[]	null	Matt Hancock's 10 debates with HM Treasury	en	/static/UK_Parliament/img/favicon-32x32.png		null	Matt Hancock (West Suffolk) (Con) - View Speech - Hansard - - Madam Deputy Speaker, I wish you and the whole House a happy St Andrew’s day. I have come to this debate today because it strikes me that the SNP motion is pitiful politicking and that the people of Scotland deserve better. They want to see real solutions to real problems. Unfortunately, it is part of a pattern for the SNP to put ideological purity ahead of the interests of the people of Scotland. We heard that from its leader here, the right hon. Member for Ross, Skye and Lochaber (Ian Blackford), who argued that independence was not the most important thing on the minds of the people of Scotland, but we know why SNP Members have brought this debate to the House today: it is merely so that they can find another way to make the argument for independence, which they lost so comprehensively when it was put to the people of Scotland five years ago. Today, SNP Members are calling for the censure of the Prime Minister, but what they should be doing is working to improve the lives of the people of Scotland. The flop of a speech from the right hon. Gentleman demonstrated that they are losing this argument. He read out a list of allegations that were comprehensively demolished by the Minister in his excellent speech. At the heart of those allegations was that the Prime Minister is ignoring advice, but the problem with the SNP is that it ignores not only advice but the decisions of the people of Scotland and this country in every referendum that it has seen. The problem is that the SNP has not seen a referendum result that it likes, so it ignores the results and asks for a rematch. On the substance, I will not go into the SNP’s failures in education, but Scotland once had the finest education system in the world. The right hon. Member for Ross, Skye and Lochaber did not even mention covid-19. I will not dwell on the huge economic cost of independence, but one piece of evidence from the Prime Minister’s tenure that completely undermines the SNP’s case is the vaccine programme. Because SNP Members are losing the argument on substance, they focus instead on politicking. Conceived through UK-funded scientific work involving researchers from universities across the UK, and indeed across the world, the Oxford vaccine is a UK success that shows Britain at her best. Critically, we bought vaccines for the whole of the UK so that everybody in Scotland and the rest of the UK were the first in the world to access them. Even better, it was a joint effort. People who are Scottish and British and in this Union get the best of both worlds: a UK vaccine delivered locally by the NHS in Scotland, working with local councils, and we could bring in the British Army when we needed reinforcements. It was a huge team effort. All four nations rolled out the vaccine together. I pay tribute to my then Scottish opposite number, Jeane Freeman. She deserves plaudits for putting pragmatism ahead of ideology. Her only problem was when the First Minister of Scotland would get involved and cause all sorts of problems by trying to politic with the programme instead of delivering the programme. Finally, why do I, as an English MP, care about this? It is because our Union brings together the best for Scotland, England and the United Kingdom, and for my constituents, too. We should get away from this politicking and concentrate on the things that really matter. The Minister for Digital (Matt Hancock) - Hansard - - I beg to move, That the Bill be now read the Third time. The Bill is part of a wide-ranging strategy to deliver world-class connectivity for our country. That, in turn, is part of our work and commitment to build a country that works for everyone and is fit for a modern age. Whether it is basic broadband over copper, world-class connectivity over fibre or continuous coverage through the air, it is part of what we could call a full-spectrum strategy. The Bill provides vital support for the vision of full-fibre connectivity. Growing the fibre network beneath our streets and along our roads and railways is like growing a tree. The trunk links our great cities and connects Britain to the world, and we are growing the great boughs and branches to power ever wider mobile signal and reach every community. We are increasingly growing out fibre not just in the trunk or the boughs but in the multitude of small branches and twigs. It is increasingly going to people’s houses and to each business, and to all the public services of the land. The fibre network needs nourishment—it is as yet a sapling, and as increasing demands are put on it, it will be under greater strain, so we must ensure that it is strong enough to deliver. I thank all right hon. and hon. Members who have contributed to the Bill, including those who gave it full support on Second Reading and highlighted the contribution that it would make to furthering our ambitions to deliver world-class digital infrastructure. They were absolutely right to make that point. I am grateful to the Clerks of the House, the Bill team in the Department for Communities and Local Government and my brilliant team in the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. I am also grateful to our partners in the telecoms industry, with whom we have worked on getting the Bill right. I look forward to their responses to the technical implementation consultation published last week. I would very much like to thank the Under-Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, my hon. Friend the Member for Nuneaton (Mr Jones), for steering the Bill through the House. The debates in Committee were fruitful, with the degree of support for the Bill being evident and strong. The Bill will provide 100% business rates relief for five years for new fibre installed after April 2017. To get the details right, we will of course listen carefully to the responses to the consultation on the regulations—it is not on the policy or who the relief should apply to but on making sure that the technical details operate effectively. Especially given the Bill’s smooth passage through the House, we hope that it will be in force very soon to incentivise the deployment of more fibre and support our efforts to get world-class digital infrastructure. To build on that, we want to create an attractive environment for the private sector to provide fibre. We are already seeing significant investment by operators across the country, including the new and growing altnets such as CityFibre, Gigaclear and Hyperoptic as well as Openreach and Virgin Media. That is supported by the Independent Networks Cooperative Association and others. I commend all of them for their work in the national interest. Business rates relief for new fibre will reduce the costs of deployment for those operators and incentivise the market to deliver where it otherwise may not have done. It is all part of ensuring that we can deliver the infrastructure that this country needs. As I said, that is part of a broader plan. In July, we announced a £400 million investment fund to provide finance for network providers by matching their fibre investments. Over the summer we announced details of our universal service obligation so that every household will get decent broadband by 2020, and we recently announced further details of £200 million of support for getting full fibre to local bodies, schools, hospitals and other public services to help them to deliver their services more effectively and ensure that the branches of fibre are rolled out more broadly. We continue to extend superfast broadband coverage over the copper network. Over 93% of UK premises have been covered to date and we are on target to reach 95% by the end of the year. Mobile coverage is on track to reach 90% of the landmass by the end of the year and we want to see 95% coverage in future. The Bill is proof of our commitment to connectivity and our determination to deliver digital infrastructure that the country deserves. It has wide support, it has been considered in detail and it will help us to build a modern Britain. I commend it to the House.
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8744	dbpedia	3	48	https://news.sky.com/story/who-is-isabel-oakeshott-the-journalist-behind-the-matt-hancock-leak-whose-work-landed-an-mp-in-prison-and-made-an-ambassador-resign-12823424	en	Who is Isabel Oakeshott, the journalist who broke an NDA to leak Matt Hancock's WhatsApps?	https://e3.365dm.com/23/…g?20230302085054	https://e3.365dm.com/23/…g?20230302085054	[ "https://news.sky.com/resources/sky-news-logo.svg?v=1", "https://news.sky.com/resources/sky-news-logo-dark.svg?v=1", "https://e3.365dm.com/23/03/768x432/skynews-isabel-oakeshott-this-morning_6074830.jpg?20230302085054", "https://e3.365dm.com/23/03/768x432/skynews-isabel-oakeshott-journalist_6076277.jpg?20230303114006", "https://e3.365dm.com/23/03/768x432/skynews-isabel-oakeshott-jeremy-vine_6075173.jpg?20230302131533", "https://e3.365dm.com/23/03/768x432/skynews-isabel-oakeshott-chris-huhne_6075166.jpg?20230302131148", "https://e3.365dm.com/23/03/768x432/skynews-matt-hancock-isabel-oakeshott_6074126.jpg?20230301130814", "https://e3.365dm.com/23/03/768x432/skynews-matt-hancock-isabel-oakeshott_6074272.jpg?20230303102836", "https://news.sky.com/resources/sky-spectrum-logo.png" ]	[]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[]	2023-03-02T09:15:00+00:00	While at the Sunday Times in 2011, Ms Oakeshott wrote a front-page article about a speeding penalty former Lib Dem minister Chris Huhne allowed his ex-wife to take for him. The pair later went to prison for perverting the course of justice.	en	/resources/favicon.ico?v=2	Sky News	https://news.sky.com/story/who-is-isabel-oakeshott-the-journalist-behind-the-matt-hancock-leak-whose-work-landed-an-mp-in-prison-and-made-an-ambassador-resign-12823424	Isabel Oakeshott has admitted she didn't tell Matt Hancock she was going to leak 100,000 of his WhatsApp messages before sharing them with the Daily Telegraph. The Brexiteer journalist and political commentator has passed on more than 2.3 million words from exchanges the former health secretary and his colleagues had about COVID policy at the height of the pandemic. Her leak broke the non-disclosure agreement she signed that promised she would only use the messages on background to ghost write Mr Hancock's book, Pandemic Diaries. She has vehemently defended her decision, which she claims is "overwhelmingly" in the public interest - as she believes the inquiry into the government response to the pandemic will take far too long to achieve genuine justice. But her reported breach of contract has led to criticism from Conservative MPs and journalists - particularly in light of other controversies she has been involved in. From King Charles's school to political journalist Ms Oakeshott was born in Westminster in the mid-1970s before moving to Scotland. She attended fee-paying schools St George's in Edinburgh and Gordonstoun in Moray - where both King Charles and his father the Duke of Edinburgh went. After graduating with a history degree from the University of Bristol she moved back to Scotland to begin her journalism career in local newspapers. In the early 2000s she moved to London to be the Evening Standard's health correspondent. Read more: The key WhatsApp exchanges Analysis: explosive message lay COVID policy bare Three years later she took her first steps into political journalism and joined the Sunday Times, where in 2010 she was made political editor and in 2011 she was named Political Journalist of the Year at the Press Awards. A year-long stint as the Daily Mail's political editor-at-large followed before jobs at GB News presenting her show The Briefing with Isabel Oakeshott in 2021 and as TalkTV's international editor from mid-2022. She has three children and was previously married to the American Nigel Rosser. She has since been in a long-term relationship with Richard Tice, the leader of Reform UK, formerly known as the Brexit Party. Matt Hancock's book is the 10th she has worked on. MP imprisoned and ambassador forced to resign Following the publication of The Lockdown Files in The Telegraph, Mr Hancock accused Ms Oakeshott of a "massive betrayal and breach of trust". But many of his former Tory colleagues have questioned his decision to entrust her with the archive - even with legal protection. What is an NDA? In 2011 when she was working at The Sunday Times she agreed to write a story about Vicky Pryce - the ex-wife of former Liberal Democrat minister Chris Huhne, who Ms Pryce had separated from following an affair. Ms Pryce told Ms Oakeshott she had taken points on her driving licence for a speeding offence Mr Huhne committed. She discussed with Ms Oakeshott over email how they might report the story to discredit Mr Huhne. But the front-page article that materialised led to the Crown Prosecution Service revisiting the incident, requesting the email exchanges, and ultimately both Ms Pryce and Mr Huhne being sentenced to eight months in prison for perverting the course of justice. In 2015 she co-authored a biography of then-prime minister David Cameron with the Conservative peer Lord Ashcroft. He had felt let down by Mr Cameron, having donated millions to the 2015 election campaign only to be denied a top job in his coalition government. The book, Call Me Dave, failed to have major success and was largely remembered for the claim Mr Cameron engaged in a sex act with a dead pig while at Oxford University. He fiercely denied it and Ms Oakeshott later admitted she only had one source to back the allegation up. "It's my judgment that the MP was not making it up, although I accept there was a possibility he could have been slightly deranged," she told a book festival audience. As an ardent Brexiteer, in 2016 she helped write Arron Banks's book The Bad Boys of Brexit on his account of the EU referendum. The Leave.EU founder gave her his texts and emails from the time, which Ms Oakeshott later published in the Sunday Times, revealing he had far more dealings with Russian officials than he had previously admitted. Three years later in 2019 she wrote a series of articles in the Mail on Sunday that revealed the UK ambassador to the United States Sir Kim Darroch had described Donald Trump's presidency as "inept" and "utterly dysfunctional". He was forced to resign, conceding his position had become untenable. But following the saga there were claims the story had not been hers - and instead the work of a teenage freelance journalist called Steven Edginton - who was involved with the Brexit Party and had wanted to stay anonymous to avoid any repercussions. Hancock and Oakeshott have 'absolutely nothing in common' During the pandemic, she quickly declared herself a lockdown-sceptic, claiming that outside of clinical environments face masks are merely "political" and "nothing to do with genuine infection control". After Mr Hancock's lockdown-breaking affair with aide Gina Coladangelo forced him to resign, Ms Oakeshott worked with him on his memoir for a year. She has claimed she wasn't paid for her work, saying it was "richly rewarding in other ways". But soon after its publication in December last year, Ms Oakeshott wrote a piece for The Spectator alluding to her motives in co-authoring the book. In it she admitted the pair have "almost nothing in common" and that they "fundamentally disagree" over how COVID should have been dealt with. 'I broke NDA, but it wasn't personal' She hinted: "Journalists don't only interrogate people they disagree with. Quite the reverse. "What better way to find out what really happened… than to align myself with the key player?" Mr Hancock says his leaked messages have been "spun to fit an anti-lockdown agenda" and denies he "ignored" advice to test all people entering care homes in England. When asked on BBC Radio 4's Today programme if Ms Oakeshott warned the former minister about her plans to leak the messages, she said: "I didn't tell him." She added in a statement: "Hard though it may be for him to believe, this isn't about Matt Hancock, or indeed any other individual politician. Nor is it about me. "We were all let down by the response to the pandemic and repeated unnecessary lockdowns. "I make no apology whatsoever for acting in the national interest: the worst betrayal of all would be to cover up these truths."
8744	dbpedia	1	51	https://challenge-magazine.org/2021/04/11/tory-party-david-cameron-face-corruption-scandal/	en	Tory Party & David Cameron face corruption scandal	https://challenge-magazi…avid-cameron.jpg	https://challenge-magazi…avid-cameron.jpg	[ "https://www.facebook.com/tr?id=951799775497585&ev=PageView&noscript=1", "https://challenge-magazine.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2021/12/YCL-Challenge-Logo-Transparent.png", "https://challenge-magazine.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2021/12/YCL-Challenge-Logo-Transparent.png", "https://challenge-magazine.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2021/04/david-cameron.jpg", "https://challenge-magazine.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2021/04/david-cameron.jpg", "https://challenge.ycl.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2021/02/georgina.jpg?w=210", "https://challenge-magazine.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2021/12/YCL-Emblem-Edit-2022-Small.png", "https://challenge-magazine.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2021/12/YCL-Emblem-Edit-2022-Small-1024x1024.png" ]	[]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[]	2021-04-11T00:00:00	At the behest of Lex Greensill, a disreputable financier at the helm of a now collapsed firm, it has been revealed that David Cameron lobbied a senior Downing Street aide and the Health Secretary, Matt Hancock. Following the Treasury’s renunciation of Cameron’s efforts to assure the company access to a Covid emergency loan scheme, Cameron contacted a No 10 adviser, illustrating the exhaustive attempts the former prime minister was willing to use to guarantee political connections for Greensill Capital, which employed him as an adviser.	en	https://challenge-magazi…e-icon-32x32.png	YCL	https://challenge-magazine.org/2021/04/11/tory-party-david-cameron-face-corruption-scandal/	At the behest of Lex Greensill, a disreputable financier at the helm of a now collapsed firm, it has been revealed that David Cameron lobbied a senior Downing Street aide and the Health Secretary, Matt Hancock. Following the Treasury’s renunciation of Cameron’s efforts to assure the company access to a COVID-19 emergency loan scheme, Cameron contacted a No 10 adviser, illustrating the exhaustive attempts the former prime minister was willing to use to guarantee political connections for Greensill Capital, which employed him as an adviser. In true Tory fashion, Cameron has demonstrated that he only cares about advancing himself in the middle of a devastating pandemic, not hesitating to put his greed first. It’s not the first case of Tory corruption in this pandemic and it probably won’t be the last. In emails sent by Cameron, he voiced the idea that it was mad to omit Greensill Capital from the program. Notably, Cameron would’ve profited from Greensill’s continuing prosperity as a shareholder of Greensill Capital. However, with the company’s collapse, his shares aren’t worth a penny. Further revelations unearthed that Cameron, along with Greensill, had a “private drink” with Hancock in 2019. Hancock was pressed to establish a payment scheme by the two men. Against protocol, there are no minutes of this meeting. After the meeting, NHS Shared Business Services announced a pilot scheme with Earnd, owned by Greensill, to pay NHS staff weekly or daily. The shadow chief secretary to the Treasury, Bridget Phillipson, advised Chancellor Rishi Sunak, another figure often lobbied by Cameron, to address Parliament soon to abate accusations of a scandal and to start an investigation into the events. In text messages released last week, Cameron asked Rishi Sunak to grant Greensill access to the Bank of England’s Covid Corporate Financing Facility, to which Sunak was very receptive. They also spoke on the phone, but it’s unclear if notes were taken or whether officials listened in. Nonetheless, access to the CCFF was rejected. Despite the rejection, Britain’s public spending watchdog is contemplating an appeal to inspect how collapsed Greensill Capital was linked to the Coronavirus Large Business Interruption Loan Scheme, giving it the capacity to acquire government-backed loans of up to £50 million. The National Audit Office is now considering whether to examine claims that Greensill Capital’s access to the program generated a risk to public funds. This is another example of how the inherent instability of capitalism leads to capitalists requiring massive state loans, amongst other types of financial aid, to revive profit levels. Capitalism has to breed corruption to keep itself afloat so no investigation or punishment made against Cameron will solve the underlying issue. The company’s records affirm nearly 14,000 shares were held by offshore wealth manager, Jersey-based Sanne Fiduciary Services. These shares were held by two employee benefit trusts, yet before Greensill Capital collapsed none of the shares had been allotted to employees. Due to his job with Greensill Capital, Cameron was expecting to gain from the £21.8 million employee benefit trust. It’s unknown how much he was actually going to get as an adviser to the company. No spokesperson for Greensill Capital have addressed any claims.
8744	dbpedia	1	5	https://theweek.com/news/politics/958379/matt-hancock-the-former-health-secretary-turned-reality-contestant	en	Matt Hancock quits: I’m a Celeb MP gives up the day job	https://cdn.mos.cms.futu…wkBA-1200-80.jpg	https://cdn.mos.cms.futu…wkBA-1200-80.jpg	[ "https://sb.scorecardresearch.com/p/?c1=2&c2=10055482&cv=4.4.0&cj=1", "https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/flexiimages/qsgislpohy1687441729.svg", "https://vanilla.futurecdn.net/theweek/media/shared/img/flags/nosize/US.svg", "https://vanilla.futurecdn.net/theweek/media/shared/img/flags/nosize/US.svg", "https://vanilla.futurecdn.net/theweek/media/shared/img/flags/nosize/GB.svg", "https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/flexiimages/jacafc5zvs1692883516.jpg", "https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/UdtvzEXGNsSoWhQ72AwkBA-415-80.jpg", "https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/flexiimages/jacafc5zvs1692883516-320-80.jpg", "https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/X8sTATbkFDSyitFi8Dw3aB-230-80.jpg", "https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/dwtKhCXRECh33FycgcUcpD-230-80.jpg", "https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/Vf4be8TrRYBoGaxjbVCGoV-230-80.jpg", "https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/L8SSvu8fTxH7xm5kCvvftk-230-80.jpg", "https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/FtLt4ayMvsB6CfM6ica43Z-230-80.jpg", "https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/aPkyMMuqafSe3eBweFewSc-230-80.jpg", "https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/F59MMHgKtaqGAGwApws554-230-80.jpg", "https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/epooypZLu8SHZbdsvAd2FQ-230-80.jpg", "https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/ynZrk4eadRwYrMemZKqS8J-230-80.jpg", "https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/4KRvps8jzJYQQPWtV2ZKMa-230-80.jpg", "https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/gnxqPyNnHjUNC8nXknGDL6-230-80.jpg" ]	[]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[ "Richard Windsor, The Week UK", "Richard Windsor", "The Week UK" ]	2022-11-02T16:01:15+00:00	Former health secretary stepping down at next election as he has ‘discovered a whole new world of possibilities’	en	https://cdn.mos.cms.futu…vv1687441742.svg	theweek	https://theweek.com/news/politics/958379/matt-hancock-the-former-health-secretary-turned-reality-contestant	Matt Hancock has announced his intention to step down as an MP at the next election. The former health secretary turned reality TV star becomes the latest of a young cohort of Conservative MPs who have said they intend to give up the job at the end of the current parliament. In a letter to the Prime Minister, Hancock said: “For my part, I want to do things differently. I have discovered a whole new world of possibilities which I am excited to explore – new ways for me to communicate with people of all ages and from all backgrounds." In a lengthy missive, Hancock “also commended himself for supporting Rishi Sunak in his bid to replace Liz Truss as Prime Minister during a turbulent year for the Conservative Party”, said The Telegraph. He concluded his letter by saying it had been “an honour to serve in Parliament and represent the people of West Suffolk”. “I will play my part in the debate about the future of our country and engage with the public in new ways,” he said. A perennial cabinet minister in successive Tory governments, Hancock was suspended as a Conservative MP after taking part in the ITV reality show I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! What is Hancock’s background? Hancock was born in Chester, Cheshire, in 1978, and went to school in the area. He read philosophy, politics and economic at Oxford University’s Exeter College before completing an MPhil in economics at Christ’s College, Cambridge. After working for a Tory bankbencher and at the Bank of England, his first foray into politics was in 2005, when he worked as an advisor for the then shadow chancellor George Osborne. Writing in The Independent, chief political commentator John Rentoul described Hancock as “energetic, clever, and a bit Tiggerish”. Hancock became the member of parliament for West Suffolk in 2010 and worked in numerous ministerial roles under David Cameron and Theresa May before his “big break came in early 2018”, said the BBC. He was made culture, media and sport secretary in May’s cabinet reshuffle in January 2018, but was only in the job for six months before being made health secretary, succeeding Jeremy Hunt. ‘Into the limelight’ before an ‘abrupt exit’ Having unsuccessfully bid to become Tory leader following May’s resignation in 2019, Hancock backed Boris Johnson as a candidate and was “among a handful of ministers to keep their roles”, said the BBC. He was “as energetic and diligent as ever” as health secretary, wrote Rentoul, and keeping his job again after the 2019 general election was “a testament to his hard work and the prime minister’s sense that he wasn’t a threat”. It wasn’t long before Hancock “achieved an unusually high profile for a health secretary”, said the BBC, becoming a regular spokesperson for the government during the Covid-19 pandemic, which “propelled [him] into the limelight”. Hancock’s time as health secretary ended with an “abrupt exit”, said Dominic McGrath in The Independent, after he was caught in June 2021 on CCTV “appearing to kiss his adviser Gina Coladangelo” despite having been married for 15 years. With social distancing measures in place at the time, he “faced pressure to stand down” for breaking rules set by his government. Despite initially attempting to stay on, Hancock eventually resigned because of the breach and returned to the backbenches. That incident was “not the first time Hancock had faced a negative headline”, said PA. He had been accused of lying to the prime minister about Covid testing in care homes by Dominic Cummings, the former Downing Street chief-of-staff. Cummings also later released WhatsApp messages in which Johnson was said to have described Hancock as “hopeless”. Following Johnson’s resignation earlier this year, Hancock was “an enthusiastic backer of Sunak”, added PA, and potentially “still harboured a return to a government role”. He put his name forward for head of the Treasury committee in October before pulling out of the race. In his Sun article defending his reality TV appearance, however, Hancock wrote that “I don’t expect to serve in government again”. “But I can support Rishi and the government in different ways,” he added.
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8744	dbpedia	1	10	https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/matt-hancock-controversies-covid-inquiry-b2364941.html	en	Matt Hancock: A timeline of the former health secretary’s Westminster controversies	https://static.independe…h=1200&auto=webp	https://static.independe…h=1200&auto=webp	[ "https://www.independent.co.uk/img/logo-white-out.svg", "https://static.independent.co.uk/static-assets/images/newsletter/brexit-and-beyond/brexit-and-beyond.png", "https://static.independent.co.uk/2023/06/27/02/b385f9fc374e27716cf73782d8807276Y29udGVudHNlYXJjaGFwaSwxNjg3ODkxODA4-2.60042507.jpg?quality=75&width=230&auto=webp", "https://static.independent.co.uk/2022/01/14/14/1729.jpg?quality=75&width=230&auto=webp", "https://static.independent.co.uk/2023/05/04/18/2d32726593b49cd191de7c2a6d842febY29udGVudHNlYXJjaGFwaSwxNjgzMzA0NDg0-2.71517784.jpg?quality=75&width=230&auto=webp", "https://static.independent.co.uk/2021/06/25/15/newFile-20.jpg?quality=75&width=230&auto=webp", "https://static.independent.co.uk/2023/06/05/17/87c5a74e404bf1c2cdde0d84352e59b5Y29udGVudHNlYXJjaGFwaSwxNjg2MDY2MTA5-2.60139740.jpg?quality=75&width=230&auto=webp", "https://www.independent.co.uk/img/icons/google.svg" ]	[]	[]	[ "Matt Hancock", "Boris Johnson", "Dominic Cummings", "Gina Coladangelo", "Jeremy Hunt", "Karen Bradley", "Brexit", "COVID-19", "Theresa May", "Rishi Sunak", "David Cameron", "I'm A Celebrity", "Internal" ]	null	[ "Joe Sommerlad", "Eleanor Noyce" ]	2023-06-27T12:11:24+00:00	The former health secretary is set to appear before Lady Hallett’s Covid inquiry on Tuesday	en	/img/shortcut-icons/favicon.ico	The Independent	https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/matt-hancock-controversies-covid-inquiry-b2364941.html	Former UK health secretary Matt Hancock is giving evidence to the Covid inquiry, becoming the latest high-profile politician to be grilled on the government’s response to the pandemic. Mr Hancock was partly responsible – alongside former prime minister Boris Johnson – for steering the UK’s decision-making and messaging on coronavirus, and his recollections of the event are likely to form a crucial piece of Lady Hallett’s inquiry. He was previously been criticised over elements of the government’s response, including a perceived lack of transparency surrounding the awarding of lucrative personal protective equipment (PPE) contracts to businesses. He’s already announced he won’t be re-standing for his West Suffolk constituency at the next general election, but Mr Hancock’s career hasn’t been without controversy. He was notably forced to resign from his cabinet post in June 2021 after it was found that he breached social distancing guidance by kissing his colleague Gina Coladangelo, the CCTV footage of which went viral on social media. Earlier this year, a leak of more than 100,000 of his WhatsApp messages by journalist Isabel Oakeshott to The Daily Telegraph further outlined a glimpse into the workings of the government during lockdown. Here’s a timeline of Mr Hancock’s occasionally scandal-hit and frequently unflatteringly-photographed time in Westminster. 6 May 2010 - Chester native, Oxford graduate, former Bank of England economist and George Osborne chief of staff Matt Hancock becomes Tory MP for West Suffolk. 6 September 2012 - Appointed minister of state for skills and enterprise, the first of a string of junior ministerial posts held under David Cameron. 15 July 2014 - Appointed minister of state for energy and minister of state for business and enterprise. 27 July 2014 - Challenged regarding policy protecting fracking in National Parks on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme but is unable to name a single village that supported the introduction of the controversial gas extraction practice. 2 October 2014 - Forced to apologise after sharing a poem on Twitter declaring the Labour Party was “full of queers”, describing the incident as an “accident”. 2 April 2015 - Criticised by environmental activists for hiring a private jet to fly back to London from a climate conference in Aberdeen. 11 May 2015 - Appointed minister for the Cabinet Office and paymaster general. 23 June 2016 - Britain votes to leave the European Union (EU). Mr Hancock backs Remain. 15 July 2016 - Appointed minister of state for digital, culture, media and sport. 8 January 2018 - Promoted to secretary of state for digital, culture, media and sport, succeeding Karen Bradley. 2 February 2018 - Launches his own mobile app to keep constituents abreast of his movements, which was later found to collect users’ personal data, albeit with their consent. 9 July 2018 - Appointed health secretary in Ms May’s final Cabinet reshuffle, succeeding Jeremy Hunt. 25 May 2019 - Announces plan to stand for party leadership one day after Ms May’s resignation. 14 June 2019 - Withdraws from race after first ballot and endorses Mr Johnson, the eventual winner. Retained as health secretary in the latter’s first Cabinet. 31 January 2020 - First coronavirus cases diagnosed in Britain. 23 March 2020 - Mr Johnson announces first national lockdown to stop the spread of the virus. 27 March 2020 - Both Mr Hancock and Mr Johnson test positive for the disease and are forced into quarantine. 11 May 2020 - Mr Hancock criticised by the UK Statistics Authority when it emerged that the target he had set for 100,000 daily Covid tests had been met only by changing the method of counting. 19 October 2020 - The Daily Mirror publishes a picture of Mr Hancock riding in a chauffeur-driven car without a face mask. 21 October 2020 - Ridiculed by Piers Morgan on ITV’s Good Morning Britain after applauding the government’s U-turn on free school meals in response to a pressure campaign led by footballer Marcus Rashford and others, despite his having voted against funding them. 2 December 2020 - Rebuked for suggesting the UK’s fast vaccine approval was only possible because of Brexit, whereas EU legislation was in place at the time. 19 February 2021 - High Court judge rules that Mr Hancock acted unlawfully earlier in the pandemic by handing out PPE contracts without publishing details on the recipients within 30 days, as he was obliged to do under Contract Award Notices protocol, only having done so within 47 days. 26 May 2021 - Dominic Cummings, Mr Johnson’s controversial adviser, appears before MPs and says “tens of thousands of people died who didn’t need to die” during the pandemic due to government blunders and that Mr Hancock should have been fired on “15 to 20” different occasions. 25 June 2021 - The Sun publishes CCTV stills from 6 May showing Mr Hancock embracing health department aide Ms Coladangelo, with whom he was having an extramarital affair, breaking his own Covid rules in the process. 26 June 2021 - Despite Mr Johnson saying he had accepted Mr Hancock’s apology and considered the matter “closed”, Mr Hancock resigns in disgrace, saying that those who make the rules must observe them, amid a storm of condemnation. He separates from his wife of 15 years, osteopath Martha Hoyer Millar, with whom he has three children. 12 October 2021 - Mr Hancock announces his appointment as the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa new special representative for financial innovation and climate change. 16 October 2021 Following objections to his hiring, the UN rescinds the job offer. 21 April 2022 - Forthcoming publication of Mr Hancock’s diaries announced by Biteback, a juicy prospect for those interested in the Johnson years in No 10. 24 October 2022 - Embarrassingly snubbed by new PM Rishi Sunak on the steps of Conservative Party headquarters as he celebrates his ascension with well-wishers. Mr Hancock’s return to the frontbench suddenly looks unlikely. 1 November 2022 - Reported to be a contestant on 22nd series of ITV’s I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here and swiftly suspended as an MP by his party. 1 March 2023 - Fights claims he rejected advice while health secretary to give Covid tests to all residents going into English care homes. The allegations were based on a trove of more than 100,000 WhatsApp messages obtained by The Daily Telegraph giving an insight into the way the government operated at the height of the pandemic. 25 March 2023 - Mr Hancock and Kwasi Kwarteng tell a fake overseas company looking for MP advisers their daily rate for consultancy would be £10,000. 12 April 2023 - Placed under investigation by parliament’s standards commissioner – for allegedly “lobbying” the sleaze watchdog to influence its findings. 4 May 2023 - Received £10,000 for an appearance on Good Morning Britain (GMB) in which he said he did not “primarily” go on I’m A Celebrity … Get Me Out Of Here! for the money. He received the payment via Shine Talent Management Limited for two hours of work, according to the entry. 11 May 2023 - Former Tory MP Andrew Bridgen begins libel action against Mr Hancock following a row over a tweet. After Mr Bridgen tweeted that the Covid-19 vaccination programme was “the biggest crime against humanity since the Holocaust”, the former health secretary described his comments as “disgusting and dangerous antisemitic, anti-vax, anti-scientific conspiracy theories”.
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8744	dbpedia	1	47	https://jacobin.com/2021/04/david-cameron-greensill-scandal-corruption	en	It’s Time to End the UK’s Minister	https://images.jacobinma…s-1313622666.jpg	https://images.jacobinma…s-1313622666.jpg	[ "https://www.facebook.com/tr?id=166148367275777&ev=PageView&noscript=1", "https://images.jacobinmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/22042611/GettyImages-1313622666.jpg" ]	[]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[]	null	Former British prime minister David Cameron has been exposed using his contacts in government to help out his new bosses at finance firm Greensill Capital. The scandal points to the cronyism among Britain’s elites — and how a wider culture of privatization and outsourcing provides a breeding ground for corruption.	en	/static/apple-touch-icon.png		https://jacobin.com/2021/04/david-cameron-greensill-scandal-corruption	In the current series of BBC crime drama Line of Duty, a policeman at war with corruption is unhappy with how things are going at the top of government. “God give me strength . . . a bare-faced liar, promoted to our highest office! When did we stop caring about honesty and integrity?” Ted Hastings asks his commanding officer. Line of Duty has handled current affairs without shoehorning in hackneyed Brexit or Donald Trump allegories. But Hastings’s rant clearly had Boris Johnson in its sights. Something is very wrong with standards in British public life, with an almost constant stream of contracts-for-friends stories from government. By this point, official procurement rules seem to exist mainly to add layers of expensive bureaucracy to the cronyism that’s going on anyway. The latest such story came with revelations that former prime minister David Cameron successfully lobbied the current Tory government for expensive favors to his new finance bosses, when rules were relaxed due to the coronavirus outbreak. But this time, the scandal has been pursued more energetically than usual by journalists — because it just keeps getting worse. The State, Class, and Greensill Capital In March, finance firm Greensill Capital filed for insolvency, in turn threatening thousands of jobs in the beleaguered UK steel industry. Its founder, Lex Greensill, is an old banking colleague of former civil service chief Jeremy Heywood, and was first made a government adviser in 2011, early in David Cameron’s spell as prime minister. Greensill quickly moved to the heart of Cameron’s new health supply chain finance scheme, which was backed by his former employer Citigroup. Greensill was also placed in a network aimed at ensuring government is getting the “best value for taxpayers,” lauded by government chief procurement officer Bill Crothers. Crothers, while still a civil servant, became an adviser to Greensill Capital’s board. Greensill Capital completely took over the National Health Service’s pharmacy supply chain finance scheme shortly before Cameron joined the firm as an adviser in 2018. Cameron met with his former Conservative cabinet colleagues on Greensill Capital’s behalf, traveled to Saudi Arabia with Greensill shortly before the pandemic hit, and lobbied German officials overseas when Greensill Capital came under fire in Berlin. In April, Cameron began lobbying Chancellor Rishi Sunak and other government figures, pushing for Greensill Capital to be involved in government-backed coronavirus crisis loans. He also asked for access to NHS staff data to facilitate selling the NHS a payday loan app for desperate and underpaid health workers. The soon-to-collapse Greensill Capital was quickly made a lender for the government’s Coronavirus Large Business Interruption Loan Scheme. Cameron failed to declare himself in the register of lobbyists his own government had created; claiming his twenty-five-day-a-year contract makes him an “employee,” as if he was hired for skills unrelated to his political career. The case is particularly egregious. But it is also just one detail in a tapestry of elite networks around the state routinely swapping favors on the public purse with little regard for performance. During this episode, Greensill also met with Dido Harding, the Conservative life peer who failed out of her private-sector role at a telecoms company and into running the UK’s £37 billion unmitigated disaster of a coronavirus test and trace system. Meanwhile rules were waived to procure PPE during the pandemic, which would have been a reasonable response to unprecedented circumstances if it had actually gotten results rather than funneled absurd quantities of cash to cronies for substandard equipment. The Greensill affair broke within a week of news of prime minister Boris Johnson’s more literal affair with entrepreneur Jennifer Arcuri, who also benefited from thousands in public money. If you had a pound for each of these incidents in the last year alone, you could probably afford the £12,000 for a seat at the Conservative donors’ dinner involved in a similar recent scandal, where a tycoon had the housing secretary railroad planning authorities into approving a previously rejected development and dodging a £45 million payout to one of the UK’s poorest urban areas. According to Martin Williams’s Parliament Ltd, in 2015, around 2,400 companies had politicians on their boards, and parliamentarians were taking £1 in external income from every £4 they earned as politicians. Two hundred ministers and senior civil servants took up lucrative lobbying jobs in 2018 alone. Such figures out of context might be benign; in the context of industries from mining to arms that lobby aggressively for favorable tax and labor policy, basically endemic tax avoidance, elite schools that still provide most senior public figures, porous boundaries between the state and private sector, and huge and opaque political donations, they point to state capture by elite networks with collective interests and overlapping dependencies. While this is all entirely legal; would it be surprising to suggest that such an environment provides a breeding ground for corruption? “The Most Corrupt Place on Earth” In David Cameron’s time as prime minister, there seemed to be at least some accountability for brazen grifting in public life, up to and including resignations. One feels somewhat sorry for operatives who once diligently covered up financial misdemeanors and now probably feel they need not have bothered; scandal after scandal explodes with seemingly zero repercussions. But the Cameron administration, as the Greensill affair shows, played its part in a long sequence of events leading to today’s age of lurid unaccountability. Leaving aside very simple cases of blackmail or stealing for direct personal gain, much of what we call “corruption” is a fairly modern understanding of phenomena that have always defined Britain’s government and politics. The country has always had a numerically small and socially distinct elite, educated together before being conveyed seamlessly into the commanding heights of government, politics, and industry. Only relatively recently did politics and the economy become diversified, expansive, and widely owned and contested enough to warrant a more rigorous and objective framework of rules around relationships involving government. But even as Britain modernized, new incentives emerged for elite cooperation around government behind closed doors. Margaret Thatcher’s privatization program shifted vast wealth and assets — accumulated with public money — to business in a swift time frame, driving incidents like the Westland affair. A command-and-control method of administration was gradually replaced with (undemocratic) decentralization; a shift “from government to governance,” in the words of Antonino Palumbo and Richard Bellamy. New Labour extended this shift with its obsessions with “choice” in public services. British neoliberalism both increased the role of profiteers in the design and delivery of public services, and created vast and complex bureaucratic infrastructure (often under the guise of cutting red tape!) to manage commissioning and oversee “competition.” All of this created difficult-to-understand systems that do a poor job of delivering actual results but are easy for a small number of experts to game. Indeed, even the logic of “best value for taxpayers” itself incentivized cronyism, as specialist private firms lost out on government contracts to all-purpose giants like Serco Group and Carillion who could lowball prices, develop close dependent relationships with ministers, and rarely be held accountable for failure. Outside formal politics, the environment was even worse. As a deindustrialized Britain became ever more dependent on high finance, and its elite became smaller, richer, narrower, and too important to hold to account. Even the 2008 crash and high-profile cases like that of Fred Goodwin, whose comic levels of irresponsibility at the head of Royal Bank of Scotland and role in its collapse led to the stripping of the knighthood New Labour had granted him, did not fundamentally change the prevalence of misconduct or the casino economy it took place in. This has been confirmed in recent years. The Libor rigging scandal underlined the scale of outright fraud bankers could carry out; only a few were properly caught. Huge firms with close relationships with both major parties encouraged and oversaw industrial-scale global tax avoidance. Britain’s sponsoring of the world’s tax havens through its overseas territories came to light in the Panama and Paradise papers, which implicated politics, business, and celebrity alike. London’s financial centers and overheated property market became a vast sink for cash of indeterminate legality, greased by a system that basically facilitates money-laundering, prompting a mafia expert to judge it “the most corrupt place on Earth.” The Left and Anti-Corruption When the casino economy ran out of chips in 2008, the Conservatives (then in opposition) deftly manipulated the situation. They shifted anger at a bipartisan parliamentary expenses scandal into a general narrative that “the state” or even “all of us” had spent too much. Political misconduct was used to pin the blame for a global crash on Labour, and then justify austerity and privatization. Such tricks continued once David Cameron was in government. After railing against Labour’s “quangos” — the orchestra of governance organizations charged with overseeing but not running public functions — he began simply stacking them with his own people. Anti-lobbying laws aimed at curbing private influence in politics were used against charities criticizing inequality and climate change, as well as trade unions. Cameron was then out-Cameroned by the Brexit campaign’s spivs and millionaires, experts at railing against a system they had profited from and condemning the establishment, only to double down on the same processes. By 2020, the Conservatives had completed a sharp ideological shift, and their onetime savior Cameron was reduced to hanging around outside the Treasury with his new paymasters’ begging bowl. The Conservatives have remained hegemonic for over a decade, in spite of everything. But public attitudes are malleable and conflicting. People think politicians are self-serving and on the take, and they mistrust most public institutions; however, the UK remains just shy of the top ten on the Corruption Perceptions Index. There is an inherent sense of fair play that sparks outrage at incidents of individual misconduct like that of ex-Johnson aide Dominic Cummings’s lockdown-breaking adventure, but large-scale cronyism or mismanagement stories rarely spark the same level of anger. Whether the Greensill affair “lands” remains to be seen. Labour are pursuing it reasonably doggedly but avoiding political critique. As party leader, Jeremy Corbyn repeatedly pointed out that the aggressive outsourcing and privatization of the NHS provides boundless opportunities for corruption at worst and a raw deal for the public at best. When he presented undeniable evidence of the scale of planned privatization, the media responded by accusing him of being handed the evidence by Russia. Labour’s new leadership are instead sticking to a technocratic argument that may be more acceptable to columnists, but will probably be less likely to cut through to people. Some advice for the Left can be drawn from all this. First, tackling the behavior of elite networks together is an area where currently loose concepts like a “transatlantic Left” can be operationally useful, defined by more than activists comparing notes. The current sell-off of UK doctors’ surgeries to an American private health care giant is one small example. Second, activists often fear vocally talking about corruption. This is because we argue, rightly, that there is little to distinguish illegal and legal capitalism in terms of negative impacts on people’s lives. We also fear the misuse of “corruption” in ideological battles; whether it’s right-wing tropes about trade unions as cartels, liberals placing every problem at the foot of dark money and Russia, or the new hard right’s “drain the swamp” rhetoric, which is usually a short jump to racist conspiracy theories. Yet this is precisely why we ought to battle corruption. If individual venality is a lesser function of systemic issues, the reverse is also true: systems that incentivize venality will concentrate a lot of it around the corridors of power. If too many people watching these scandals draw the conclusion that there is only an issue when the law is broken, or that corrupt individuals are the root of all problems, or that “taking money out of politics” is achievable through a few restrictions on lobbying alone, then that is an argument for championing the anger at incidents like Greensill and setting them in context. If we do not, the hard right will; Viktor Orbán, Narendra Modi, Jair Bolsonaro, and Trump all came to power by weaponizing widely held perceptions of a rotten political establishment and seeding them with arguments for racism, austerity, war, climate denial, and handouts for the rich. Let’s set the Greensill affair in context: a former prime minister used the outbreak of a deadly pandemic to acquire preferential financial treatment for his bosses, while billions were being handed out to government-linked businesses who seem to have charged us up to £800 per protective overall. Meanwhile, the health workers fighting a lethal virus while wearing trash bags for want of proper PPE are now being offered a paltry 1 percent pay raise. From refusing to raise sick pay to corralling people into offices when the virus was still running riot, policy decisions were made by and for elites. Neither individual greed and stupidity nor structural flaws can explain this disaster completely; they have combined to produce something more rotten than the sum of their parts.
8744	dbpedia	2	86	https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Matt_Hancock	en	Matt Hancock	https://wikiwandv2-19431…s/icon-32x32.png	https://wikiwandv2-19431…s/icon-32x32.png	[ "https://wikiwandv2-19431.kxcdn.com/_next/image?url=https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/Official_portrait_of_Rt_Hon_Matt_Hancock_MP_crop_2.jpg/640px-Official_portrait_of_Rt_Hon_Matt_Hancock_MP_crop_2.jpg&w=640&q=50", "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/Official_portrait_of_Rt_Hon_Matt_Hancock_MP_crop_2.jpg/220px-Official_portrait_of_Rt_Hon_Matt_Hancock_MP_crop_2.jpg", "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e3/Matt_Hancock_signature.svg/128px-Matt_Hancock_signature.svg.png" ]	[]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[]	null	Matthew John David Hancock is a British politician who served as Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster General from 2015 to 2016, Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport from January to July 2018, and Secretary of State for Health and Social Care from 2018 to 2021. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for West Suffolk from 2010 to 2024. He is a member of the Conservative Party.	en	https://wikiwandv2-19431…icon-180x180.png	Wikiwand	https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Matt_Hancock	This article is about the British politician. For the fictional Australian TV character, see Matt Hancock (Neighbours). Matthew John David Hancock (born 2 October 1978)[2] is a British politician who served as Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster General from 2015 to 2016, Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport from January to July 2018, and Secretary of State for Health and Social Care from 2018 to 2021. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for West Suffolk from 2010 to 2024. He is a member of the Conservative Party. Hancock was born in Cheshire, with his family running a software business. He studied a Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) at the University of Oxford, and an MPhil in Economics at the University of Cambridge. He was an economist at the Bank of England before serving as a senior economic adviser and later chief of staff to MP, George Osborne. Hancock was first elected as MP for West Suffolk at the 2010 general election. Once in Parliament, Hancock served as a junior minister at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills from 2012 to 2015, and was the United Kingdom Anti-Corruption Champion from 2014 to 2015. He attended David Cameron's cabinet as Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster General from 2015 to 2016. After Theresa May became prime minister following Cameron's resignation, Hancock was moved to the post of Minister of State for Digital and Culture. He was promoted to May's cabinet as Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. In July 2018, after the promotion of Jeremy Hunt to Foreign Secretary, Hancock replaced him as Secretary of State for Health and Social Care. After May's resignation, Hancock stood in the Conservative Party leadership election to replace her, but withdrew shortly after the first ballot and subsequently endorsed Boris Johnson. After Johnson became prime minister, Hancock retained his position as health secretary in his cabinet. Hancock's tenure as health secretary was marked by the COVID-19 pandemic, which he played a prominent role in the UK government's response to. Hancock oversaw efforts to procure PPE, but the absence of a competitive tendering process for the award of some contracts proved controversial. He expanded COVID-19 testing and tracing, and also oversaw the early stage of the UK's COVID-19 vaccination programme. In June 2021, it was shown that he had breached COVID-19 social distancing restrictions by kissing and embracing Gina Coladangelo in his office. Coladangelo was at that time a director at the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), and Hancock was having an extramarital affair with her. Following this controversy, Hancock resigned as health secretary and returned to the backbenches. He was succeeded by Sajid Javid.
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Friend makes an important point. The Chancellor will be going into more detail on this issue. We need to ensure that the regulators and the SFO have all the powers they need. People will not understand why crimes on the high street are punished in one way but crimes in the banks and elsewhere are punished in another way. That absolutely needs to be cleared up, and I am sure that this Government will do so. The Prime Minister - Hansard - - - Excerpts The right hon. Gentleman makes a good point. However much one can look at the Greek situation and feel for the people who are suffering as a result of unemployment and living standards, there is a crying need for genuine reform in Greece, and for more straightforward and honest politics when it comes to dealing with those problems. That means making sure that people do pay their taxes, and making sure that industries are competitive. The issue of defence spending is obviously more complex because of the relationship between Greece and Turkey, but as we are now both NATO members and Turkey is an aspirant EU nation, there should be an opportunity to decrease Greek spending on national defence, while of course encouraging it to be a good NATO member at the same time. The Prime Minister - Hansard - - - Excerpts My hon. Friend makes a very important point. Absolutely no one suggested that dealing with deficits and securing growth were alternatives. They are complementary: we need both. That is the view of everyone around the G8 table. There is only group of people who have their heads in the sand and are complete deficit deniers, and they are the people who gave us the deficit in the first place. The Prime Minister - Hansard - - - Excerpts I certainly join my hon. Friend in praising Suffolk and other police forces in East Anglia and Essex who got police officers into our capital. The point I made about the deployment of officers is one of the lessons we have to learn about the ability to surge up numbers quickly when circumstances require it. The Prime Minister - Hansard - - - Excerpts The premise underlying the hon. Gentleman’s question is wrong. My understanding is that when there is a police investigation, as there is with hacking, if evidence is destroyed that breaks the law. That investigation is happening right now. As regards setting up the inquiry, the terms of reference are now in the Library for the hon. Gentleman to see. If he has suggestions and ideas he can make them known, but I sent the terms of reference to his right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition this morning for comments from the Labour party and we have incorporated those comments in full. The Prime Minister - Hansard - - - Excerpts My hon. Friend makes an important point. We should celebrate good journalism and social responsibility in journalism and media organisations. Let me put it on the record that many media organisations do some brilliant things in our country to build up what I call the big society. We must not damn all media because of what is happening and what has happened in some organisations. As well as a good regulatory system, we need a culture that is, yes, about getting to the truth but, no, not about breaking the law. The Prime Minister - Hansard - - - Excerpts Of course. The point about the inquiry, which I will be announcing in a moment or two, is that it will be judge led, it will take its powers from the Inquiries Act 2005, and it will be able to call people under oath. I think this is absolutely vital. As I say, there are three pillars to this. There is the issue of police corruption, there is the issue of what happened at the media, and there are also questions for politicians past, present and future. The Prime Minister - Hansard - - - Excerpts I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for his question. He is absolutely right: this is an issue of cross-party concern. As he knows, we completely agree with what was proposed for the human trafficking directive. We decided to wait and check that it would actually be in line with what was wanted and did not have further dangers in terms of our immigration policy. I am happy to say that we will be opting into the directive, with parliamentary permission. Above all, we must ensure that our arrangements are in place to help trafficked children, including in the way he suggests. The Prime Minister - Hansard - - - Excerpts My hon. Friend makes an important point. Some of the PFI deals that were entered into were extremely expensive, and the costs will rack up on taxpayers for years to come. He does not have to believe me, as we now have it from Labour’s shadow Health Secretary, who has made a number of helpful interventions in recent weeks. The latest one was in the Morning Star—not a paper I always read. Whether talking to a communist paper or backing Tory plans, he is very consistent: he is always in favour of what the Government are doing. He said: “There is definitely a case for saying we were poor at PFI, poor at negotiating PFI contracts from the outset.” I could not agree more. The Prime Minister - Hansard - - - Excerpts I strongly support the British police. They are the finest force in the world. What the police and other public servants know is that we were left a deep Budget deficit that we have to deal with. If we want to keep police officers on the streets, it is necessary to have the pay freeze that we are talking about. It is necessary to look, as Tom Winsor has done, at the allowances that they receive and to work out how we can make sure that we have well-paid, well-motivated police officers doing a great job in our country. Again, if the Labour party is just going to stand against every reform, every change and every improvement and say there is nothing we can do about any one of these problems, not only will it be irrelevant, but the British public will work out that it is irrelevant. The Prime Minister - Hansard - - - Excerpts I can certainly give my hon. Friend that assurance. This is a very disturbing case, and I am sure that hon. Members will all have heard about it this morning on the news. I think the police will want to do everything they can to get to the bottom of this dreadful crime and to bring the perpetrators to justice. The Prime Minister - Hansard - - - Excerpts I think that the biggest lesson is that the Irish followed one key new Labour policy, which was to join the euro. Fortunately, new Labour did not have the courage and bravery to follow through its own manifesto and listened very carefully to my right hon. Friend the Member for Richmond (Yorks) (Mr Hague), who fought a very strong campaign to keep us out of the euro. The Prime Minister - Hansard - - - Excerpts It is difficult to find a group that is against dealing with deficits. I think that even Cuba has now recognised that we need to take action—and that is the point. The G20 is united in the fact that we need to deal quickly with large and excessive deficits. That was the conversation around the table, and that is what is in the communiqué. There is only one group of people I can think of who would have been in the deficit denial corner: the Labour party. The Prime Minister - Hansard - - - Excerpts I am afraid that the hon. Gentleman’s break from Parliament did not do anything for his temper or his nature. He is completely wrong. We have to get these decisions right for the long term and, as I have tried to explain, a politically easier decision would have been a militarily wrong decision. That is a good way to start. The Prime Minister - Hansard - - - Excerpts I am well aware that the Conservative party did not sweep Scotland, and I thank the hon. Gentleman for reminding me of it. What I said I would do if we formed a Government was to go straight to Scotland and Wales to meet the First Ministers and have—[Interruption.] The hon. Gentleman has asked a question; he might as well listen to the answer before he starts shouting at me. I said that I would have proper meetings and have a respect agenda in which we respected the devolved Assemblies. I have to say that under the last Government there was a whole year during the financial crisis when the Prime Minister of our country did not even meet the First Minister of Scotland. That will not happen under this Government—we believe in respect.
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Department of Health. During his first speech in Parliament in his new job, on June 28th, he all but guaranteed that lockdown would end on July 19th, and strongly hinted that the policy of sending entire classes of children home if one tests positive for covid-19 would end soon, too. The next morning he condemned a bunch of yobs for accosting the chief medical officer, Chris Whitty, as he walked across St James’s Park. “We will not tolerate this sort of behaviour towards our public servants,” Mr Javid tweeted at 7.27am. This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “The comeback kid” From the July 3rd 2021 edition Discover stories from this section and more in the list of contents Explore the edition More from Britain Britain has many levers for controlling migration. Which ones should it pull? Not the one marked “reduce the government wage bill” Winston Churchill’s urinal shows Britain’s hang-up with heritage A planned Labour reform goes down the drain Britain’s oil and gas industry faces an uncertain future Small operators in the North Sea are struggling with a tax squeeze NHS dentistry is decaying Can Labour stop the rot? Britain’s justice system has responded forcefully to the riots But the perception of a “two-tier” approach does not bear scrutiny
8744	dbpedia	3	7	https://www.politico.eu/person/matt-hancock/	en	Matt Hancock – POLITICO	https://www.politico.eu/…co-billboard.png	https://www.politico.eu/…co-billboard.png	[ "https://www.facebook.com/tr?id=394368290733607&ev=PageView&noscript=1", "https://www.politico.eu/cdn-cgi/image/width=480,height=345,quality=80,onerror=redirect,format=auto/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/04/Ed-thorpe-park-scaled.jpg", "https://www.politico.eu/cdn-cgi/image/width=480,height=320,quality=80,onerror=redirect,format=auto/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/22/GettyImages-1240225336-scaled.jpg", "https://www.politico.eu/cdn-cgi/image/width=480,height=320,quality=80,onerror=redirect,format=auto/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/30/rishi-taytay2-scaled.jpg", "https://www.politico.eu/cdn-cgi/image/width=480,height=360,quality=80,onerror=redirect,format=auto/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/28/GettyImages-2149262789-scaled.jpg", "https://www.politico.eu/cdn-cgi/image/width=480,height=270,quality=80,onerror=redirect,format=auto/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/29/Westminster-Insider-Website-Card.png", "https://www.politico.eu/cdn-cgi/image/width=480,height=320,quality=80,onerror=redirect,format=auto/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/13/GettyImages-1705256796-scaled.jpg", "https://www.politico.eu/cdn-cgi/image/width=480,height=320,quality=80,onerror=redirect,format=auto/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/16/GettyImages-1246348016-scaled.jpg" ]	[]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[]	null	Matt Hancock MP has been Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport since January 2018. Before that, he was Minister of State for Digital from July 2016 to January 2018. Hancock entered government in September 2012 and has served in a number of Ministerial Roles, including for skills and business, and as Paymaster General. He oversaw the expansion of apprenticeships and championed the digital transformation of government. He was elected Member of the Parliament for West Suffolk in the 2010 general election where he served as a backbencher on the Public Accounts Committee and the Standards & Privileges Committee. Before entering politics, he worked as an economist at the Bank of England, and as Chief of Staff to the Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer. Hancock holds degrees from Oxford and Cambridge Universities.	en	https://www.politico.eu/wp-content/themes/politico/assets/images/favicon/favicon.ico	POLITICO	https://www.politico.eu/person/matt-hancock/	From ULEZ to fuckpigs: Westminster’s words of 2023 The POLITICO English dictionary rounds up the words that entered the British political lexicon in the past year — for better or worse. Rishi Sunak resists Boris Johnson pile-on at COVID inquiry The UK prime minister faces difficult questions over the push to reopen Britain’s pandemic-ravaged economy. Boris at the COVID inquiry: Key flashpoints From the speed of lockdowns to a macho culture in Downing Street, Britain’s former prime minister faced a two-day grilling. Matt Hancock’s cringe COVID inquiry grilling From accidentally declaring a mayor dead to chummy texts with Boris Johnson, it was a fierce two-day grilling at the UK pandemic inquiry for the former health secretary. British state ‘surprisingly bad’ at responding to COVID-19, inquiry hears Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty blames sluggish government machine for U.K.’s pandemic failings. Nigel Farage braves snakes and mud pits in ‘I’m a Celebrity’ jungle debut The former Brexit Party leader was mostly untroubled by the reptiles Nigel Farage set for testicle-chomping ‘I’m A Celebrity’ reality show The former MEP wants to show he’s ‘not nasty’ — and might have to chomp animal appendages to do so. Rishi Sunak’s Cabinet reshuffle: Every big move It’s not just David Cameron. POLITICO runs through the key appointments so far as the UK prime minister shakes up his Cabinet. Suella Braverman is the most hated woman in British politics — and far nicer than you think The UK home secretary is a bundle of contradictions. She might just be the next Tory leader, too. Britain’s COVID-19 inquiry exposes the rot at the heart of Whitehall Beyond the sweary WhatsApp messages lies a deeper British malaise. Boris Johnson asked scientists if COVID could be killed by hairdryer up nose, ex-aide claims COVID-19 inquiry hears latest claim from Johnson’s aide-turned-nemesis Dominic Cummings. Cabinet of ‘fuckpigs’ and a team with ‘no plan’: 9 Boris bombshells from the UK’s COVID inquiry Dominic Cummings and Lee Cain’s evidence rocked Westminster Tuesday. Useless fuckpigs: How Dominic Cummings described Boris Johnson’s Cabinet Sweary WhatsApp exchanges shed light on chaotic running of Downing Street during the COVID-19 pandemic. Nigel Farage says he’ll be fine in reality TV jungle after dealing with EU ‘snakes’ Brexiteer ‘seriously’ considering a stint on ‘I’m A Celebrity … Get Me Out Of Here.’ Westminster’s most gruesome rivalries POLITICO celebrates Halloween with a spook-tacular guide to the SW1 feuds that just won’t stay in the grave. Top civil servant’s damning verdict on Boris Johnson ‘The team can’t deliver anything under these circumstances,’ message from Simon Case reads. Rishi Sunak is attempting a leadership reset. He may be too late The UK prime minister hopes to revive his flagging fortunes this fall with a government overhaul. Why the UK’s economic upturn is a false dawn for the Tories It looks like a recession is averted. But will that be enough? The Westminster-Big Tech revolving door keeps spinning The US tech giants’ lobbying teams include players from across the political spectrum. Ex-UK health chief blames WHO for Britain’s lack of pandemic planning Matt Hancock tells inquiry UK had planned for ‘the consequence of a disaster’ rather than trying to halt or mitigate one. Every British MP suspended by their party since 2019 Westminster’s unwanted: endless scandals in British politics mean an accidental new bloc now outnumbers the Liberal Democrats. UK’s Matt Hancock told to say sorry after lobbying MP watchdog Hancock breaches Commons rules by backing under-investigation MP Steve Brine. Deputy PMQs scorecard: Please make it stop as Dowden and Rayner stand-in Dowden and Rayner’s Wednesday parliamentary show-down was not the best advert for British politics.
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It’s for that reason that the NHS is still not at its capacity for PPE provision, is still not able to effect key purchasing outcomes across the NHS estate in a timely and focused way and with just seven days to go and why the Health Secretary is being tortured each day by a cohort of unfriendly journalists over his pledge of achieving 100,000 Covid 19 tests each day by 30th April - it’s now at 39,000 but it’s a target he is almost inevitably going to miss. Yes, he’s ruffled feathers in the Cabinet and across government - such as his injudicious remarks about the PM last summer - but he’s also remained quietly confident, calm under pressure, candid, professional and plausible. He’s the first Health Secretary to seriously tackle poor communications in the NHS and to try to utilise the power of technology to help NHS staff deliver a better but cost effective service to patients. Matt Hancock is unlikely to allow tactical diversions like the fuss over the UK’s participation in the EU PPE procurement project - which has delivered zero pieces of kit to zero patients thus far - to obscure the achievement of the big picture strategic objectives, which will be what voters will judge him, his ministerial team and his boss the Prime Minister on. Specifically, the lockdown and social distancing has been largely observed as a result of the most significant usurpation of civil liberties (arguably) in modern British history and the NHS has proved itself resilient and capable of holding back the tide of infection, disease and death, avoiding the calamity witnessed in parts of the United States, Italy and potentially soon in Japan, where hospital intensive care units have collapsed under the strain of insufficient staffing, equipment and sheer weight of patient numbers. What more do people demand? The good ship Hancock has remained seaworthy through the squalls of Tory politics (as befits the former Minister for Portsmouth) despite labouring under a number of disadvantages: Since the defenestration of his mentor, protector and strongest advocate, the Tory Party’s most powerful capo dei capi in the Cameron era, George Osborne, a man of considerable charm and cunning but one who bore many grudges, Hancock has been short of a power base, hence his fleeting four day leadership election campaign last June. Not only is he a symbol of the ancien regime of 2005-16 but he very evidently picked the wrong team in the Brexit wars and many folk see that Leave v Remain schism, as well as hostility to Boris Johnson, together with a perception of a “born to rule” mentality, in judging him. Unfair? Maybe. Dry your tears. Matt has a hide like a pangolin, is clever, hardworking, single-minded and Machiavellian and has infinite reserves of ambition and self-belief. A man who played cricket at the North Pole and suffered frostbite as a result and races horses for fun, is unlikely to be intimidated by a little customary friendly fire from rivals. This is a guy who was a Bank of England economist, effortlessly inherited a safe seat, who Osborne brought in to his inner circle for his smart economic analyses, a man who has sat at the top table in Opposition and Government, wrote tax policy, helped set up the Office of Budget Responsibility and went eyeball to eyeball with Treasury mandarins to show who was boss when Osborne took over as Chancellor of the Exchequer in 2010. He also has an excellent and popular Parliamentary aide in Steve Double, who will have helped him smooth troubled waters in the Parliamentary Conservative Party as well as a team of media savvy and smart junior Ministers. Those who write him off might be making a mistake. Having lived through the triumphs and travails of the Cameron epoch and the valley of death that was the EU Referendum result and the disastrous May interregnum, Hancock has an eye on the future and understands the essentially fatuous nature of the 24 hour “gotcha” news cycle and the breathless hunt for scandal, u-turn, gaffe and obfuscation and the fact it’s white noise for most voters. He also comprehends the perils of hubris and elitism. Despite past history, the Prime Minister will have appreciated his staying power and loyalty during his absence leading to the unplanned and temporary and unprecedented power vacuum in Downing Street. He’ll be content to take his chance with posterity in a year or three or five. He certainly has time on his side and will probably outlast his many enemies. Stewart Jackson was a Conservative MP from 2005-17, Chief of Staff to Rt Hon David Davis MP as Brexit Secretary 2017-18 and was Strategic Counsel at CTF Partners 2018-20
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Lady Hallett has heard from witness after witness testifying about mistakes made, pandemic plans not refreshed and civil servants focusing on the wrong type of virus – but nobody has held their hands up and taken personal responsibility. David Cameron and George Osborne, giving evidence last week, not only denied their austerity policies hampered the ability of the public services to respond to Covid, but insisted those cuts put the country in a better position to fight a pandemic. Last year, counsel KC Hugo Keith told a preliminary hearing that the inquiry would expose “culpable and discreditable conduct” and identify “plainly wrongful decision-making and significant errors of judgement”. It’s just that, so far, no-one has wanted to take responsibility for wrongful decision-making or significant errors of judgement. This unhappy state of affairs was until Matt Hancock took to the witness box on Tuesday morning. In the absence of Boris Johnson – who will be a key witness in module 2 into the government’s response when the virus broke out – Mr Hancock was always going to be a lightning rod for the anger and distress that families bereaved by Covid feel. This is not least because he infamously said, during the early weeks of the pandemic, that the government was throwing a “protective ring” around care homes, a statement that did not turn out to be true. It is also clear that Mr Hancock is maligned in the public realm because of things not directly connected to the pandemic – he broke lockdown rules by cheating on his wife, and then went on TV to seek public forgiveness. But in 2020, unlike the then prime minister, Mr Hancock was one of the more proactive ministers dealing with the crisis that swept through the country and government. He called Cobra meetings, pushed earlier than others for measures to limit the spread, oversaw his own – at the time risky – pledge to scale up Covid testing to 100,000 a day by the end of April 2020, and was ridiculed by No 10 insiders who (wrongly) claimed he was the “only one” in government who believed a coronavirus vaccine was on its way. Is it fair that his efforts back then are clouded by what he did in his personal life later on? Mr Hancock’s testimony was blisteringly frank and honest. Clearly emotional, he said he was sorry for “each death” linked to Covid in the UK – a toll that exceeds 225,000. He blamed the “completely wrong” approach by the government to prepare for the consequences of a deadly pandemic, such as buying up body bags, rather than trying to limit its effects in the UK, that planning for the impact on social care was “terrible”, and that it was an “absolute tragedy” that there was a systemic failure. The inquiry has heard a lot about problems with the system – rather than individuals – including the spaghetti-like structures of contingency planning, a tendency towards groupthink and an apparently institutionalised focus on flu rather than a novel virus. As Mr Keith said at the end of Mr Hancock’s evidence, referring to those on the front line who had to cope with Covid when it emerged, it was a case of “lions led by structural donkeys … everyone gave their all but the system was not fit for purpose”. But unlike other witnesses, including officials, politicians and scientists, Mr Hancock was willing to carry the can. Asked by Mr Keith whether he bore responsibility for the “calamitous state of affairs”, the former minister replied: “I bear responsibility for all the things that happened not only in my department, but also the agencies that reported to me as secretary of state.”
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Get Me Out Of Here may have courted their most controversial name yet by including former health secretary Matt Hancock. Heading to Australia to join the camp as a late addition, Hancock's involvement in the show has already proven to be divisive – with some viewers even threatening to switch off. Read more: 'I'm a Celebrity' 2022 cast: Full list of contestants, from Matt Hancock to Mike Tindall Will he be able to win over the audience? Or is he destined for a month of public-voted Bushtucker trials? Here's what you need to know about him... Who is Matt Hancock? Born October 2nd, 1978, Matt Hancock was born to Michael and Shirley Hancock (now Carter), and is the youngest of three siblings. In 1999, he joined the Conservative party. Before becoming an MP, he was an economist for the Bank of England. Read more: 'This Morning' hit with complaints over Phillip Schofield's dyslexia comments to Matt Hancock In May 2010, Hancock was voted Conservative MP for West Suffolk. He became Minister for the Cabinet Office in 2015 under David Cameron, and in January 2018 was promoted to Culture Secretary under Theresa May's government. He worked in the position for seven months before being promoted to Health Secretary. After May quit her position as Prime Minister in June 2019, Hancock made a bid for the top position, only to pull out shortly thereafter after failing to get enough support within the Conservative Party. The role eventually went to Boris Johnson, who remained in the role before quitting in August 2022. But he is most known for becoming one of the leading roles in the UK's tackling of the coronavirus pandemic in March 2022, initiating lockdown procedures and their subsequent failed attempts at reopening the country before they were closed down again. Read more: 'I'm a Celebrity' fans react to Matt Hancock rumours In June 2021, The Sun published photographs of him having an affair with advisor Gina Coladangelo in his Whitehall office, during the period he was publicly telling people to stay away from loved-ones and social distance. This clear breach of social guidelines led to him resigning from his position as Health Secretary after national outcry and increased distrust in the government. Around this time he separated from his wife, Martha, whom he'd been married to since 2006 and shares three children. Following the news of his appearance on I'm A Celebrity, which will take place while Parliament is in session, the Prime Minister suspended his Tory whip, essentially making him an independent member of the House of Commons. Who's angry about Matt Hancock joining 'I'm A Celebrity' 2022? Hancock's appearance on I'm A Celebrity has caused outcry both among politicians and the general public alike, especially as it's believed he will be paid £400,000 for his stint – making him one of the most expensive celebs in the show's history. Members of the COVID-19 Bereaved Families for Justice group launched a petition to have Hancock removed from the line-up, and it surpassed 20,000 signatures in two days. MPs are not pleased with the decision either, with many mocking his decision to take part. Among them, SNP MP Pete Wishart stated: "It speaks volumes that Matt Hancock would rather be stranded in a remote jungle eating kangaroo testicles than spend a moment longer on the Tory benches at Westminster, as Rishi Sunak’s government lurches from one crisis to another." Other papers and fan bases are filing to have him be assigned every Bushtucker trial. Read more: 'I'm A Celebrity': All of the winners so far Olly Nash, executive producer of I'm A Celebrity, has defended the decision and told ITV News: "We’ve put in loads of politicians over the years, we also put in people who have had very strong views about certain things and sometimes it plays out in camp and sometimes it doesn’t. "It’s not a question of trying to divide camp, we have never been a deliberately divisive camp. It’s up to them to come into the camp and it’s up to them if they want to leave." What has Matt Hancock said about appearing on the show? Ahead of his appearance on the show, Hancock released a self-written piece to The Sun explaining his decision to take part, saying it was to raise awareness for the Dyslexia Screening and Teacher Training Bill which is due to get its second screening in Parliament shortly after I'm A Celebrity ends. He joked he "hadn't lost his marbles" and wanted to reach out to those who have become disengaged with politics, bringing it to a platform they would be more willing to pay attention to. Read more: 'I'm A Celebrity' champ Danny Miller says public will use Matt Hancock as a ‘toy’ "While there will undoubtedly be those who think I shouldn’t go, I think it’s a great opportunity to talk directly to people who aren’t always interested in politics, even if they care very much about how our country’s run," he wrote. "It’s our job as politicians to go to where the people are — not to sit in ivory towers in Westminster." "I think it’s patronising to hear some say reality TV is beneath a politician. We all know that many people are turned off by the aggressive ‘gotcha’ questioning and insider presumptions of political news," he added. "Reality TV is a very different way to communicate with the electorate — it’s both honest and unfiltered."
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After leaving office, Cameron in turn became an adviser to Greensill's now-insolvent finance firm.	en	https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/icons/etfavicon.ico	The Economic Times	https://m.economictimes.com/news/international/world-news/uk-former-pm-david-cameron-says-greensill-lobbying-should-have-been-through-formal-channels/articleshow/82021019.cms	Synopsis Cameron, who was prime minister from 2010 to 2016, appointed the Australian banker as an adviser when he was in Downing Street. After leaving office, Cameron in turn became an adviser to Greensill's now-insolvent finance firm. Britain's former prime minister David Cameron said he accepted that communications with government needed to be done through formal channels after the row about his lobbying activities for financier Lex Greensill deepened on Sunday. Cameron, who was prime minister from 2010 to 2016, appointed the Australian banker as an adviser when he was in Downing Street. After leaving office, Cameron in turn became an adviser to Greensill's now-insolvent finance firm. The Financial Times and Sunday Times newspapers have reported that Cameron contacted ministers directly to lobby on behalf of Greensill Capital, including sending texts to finance minister Rishi Sunak and arranging a private drink between Greensill and Health Secretary Matt Hancock. Britain's Treasury has said that the former prime minister contacted Sunak and two other ministers in the department to ask if Greensill could access the government's COVID-19 loan schemes. In his first comments on the row, Cameron said that in his representations to government he was breaking no codes of conduct and no government rules. Ultimately the outcome of the discussions on Greensill's proposals regarding the loan were not taken up, he said, and therefore his interventions did not lead to a change in the government's approach. "However, I have reflected on this at length," he said in a statement to the Press Association news agency. "There are important lessons to be learnt. As a former Prime Minister, I accept that communications with government need to be done through only the most formal of channels, so there can be no room for misinterpretation." (You can now subscribe to our Economic Times WhatsApp channel) (Catch all the Business News, Breaking News, Budget 2024 Events and Latest News Updates on The Economic Times.) Subscribe to The Economic Times Prime and read the ET ePaper online. ...moreless (You can now subscribe to our Economic Times WhatsApp channel) (Catch all the Business News, Breaking News, Budget 2024 Events and Latest News Updates on The Economic Times.) 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8744	dbpedia	2	74	https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/suffolk-mp-matthew-hancock-promoted-to-minister-of-state-612160/	en	Suffolk MP Matthew Hancock promoted to minister of state	https://www.edp24.co.uk/resources/images/14989753/?type=og-image	https://www.edp24.co.uk/resources/images/14989753/?type=og-image	[ "https://www.edp24.co.uk/resources/images/small_site_logo/", "https://www.edp24.co.uk/resources/images/small_site_logo/", "https://www.edp24.co.uk/resources/images/14989753.jpg?type=mds-article-575 575w, /resources/images/14989753.jpg?type=mds-article-962 962w, /resources/images/14989753.jpg?type=mds-article-642 642w, /resources/images/14989753.jpg?type=mds-article-620 620w", "https://www.edp24.co.uk/resources/responsive-static/mds/images/ipso-regulated.svg", "https://www.edp24.co.uk/resources/responsive-static/images/love-local.png", "https://www.edp24.co.uk/resources/images/pixel/" ]	[]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[ "Annabelle Dickson" ]	2013-10-07T13:42:00+00:00	Suffolk MP Matthew Hancock has moved up the ministerial ranks in a government reshuffle becoming a twin-hatted minister of state for education and…	en	/resources/images/17416499/	Eastern Daily Press	https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/21066842.suffolk-mp-matthew-hancock-promoted-minister-state/	The 34-year-old, a former aide of chancellor George Osborne, has been promoted from a junior ministerial role to the more senior post by prime minister David Cameron. In his new role he will also take on responsibility for enterprise, particularly small businesses. The MP took to Twitter shortly after Mr Cameron announced his move on the social media site to say:'Delighted PM has asked me to be Minister of State for Skills & Enterprise in BIS & DfE. A lot done, a lot more to do.' It is a step up from his role as parliamentary undersecretary of state, where he has been in charge of further education, the government's skills strategy and apprenticeships, among other things. A minister of state is the middle in a hierarchy of three types of minister, with a secretary of state role the next step on the career latter. Mr Hancock, who was elected in 2010, was an economist at the Bank of England between 2000 and 2005 before working for the then shadow chancellor Mr Osborne. He stepped down after he was selected as the Conservative candidate for West Suffolk. He became a member of the influential Public Accounts Committee shortly after becoming an MP, before he was given the junior minister post last year.
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8744	dbpedia	2	23	https://apnews.com/article/lobbying-david-cameron-covid-19-pandemic-europe-coronavirus-pandemic-2f84245d4901474b07fa76c8c1053b3b	en	UK lobbying scandal snares ex-PM Cameron; govt starts probe	https://dims.apnews.com/dims4/default/96d6fcb/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2000x1125+0+119/resize/1440x810!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fstorage.googleapis.com%2Fafs-prod%2Fmedia%2Fed55148a38ab404cad41ec9df1225b2c%2F2000.jpeg	https://dims.apnews.com/dims4/default/96d6fcb/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2000x1125+0+119/resize/1440x810!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fstorage.googleapis.com%2Fafs-prod%2Fmedia%2Fed55148a38ab404cad41ec9df1225b2c%2F2000.jpeg	[ "https://assets.apnews.com/fa/ba/9258a7114f5ba5c7202aaa1bdd66/aplogo.svg", "https://dims.apnews.com/dims4/default/94c503b/2147483647/strip/true/crop/640x236+0+0/resize/320x118!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.apnews.com%2Fc3%2F4c%2F65482a7b452db66043542c093eaf%2Fpromo-2x.png 1x,https://dims.apnews.com/dims4/default/6e4b276/2147483647/strip/true/crop/640x236+0+0/resize/640x236!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.apnews.com%2Fc3%2F4c%2F65482a7b452db66043542c093eaf%2Fpromo-2x.png 2x", "https://dims.apnews.com/dims4/default/4330002/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2000x1331+0+15/resize/320x213!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fstorage.googleapis.com%2Fafs-prod%2Fmedia%2Fed55148a38ab404cad41ec9df1225b2c%2F2000.jpeg 1x,https://dims.apnews.com/dims4/default/3b990fb/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2000x1331+0+15/resize/640x426!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fstorage.googleapis.com%2Fafs-prod%2Fmedia%2Fed55148a38ab404cad41ec9df1225b2c%2F2000.jpeg 2x", "https://dims.apnews.com/dims4/default/8650001/2147483647/strip/true/crop/992x617+0+0/resize/225x140!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.apnews.com%2Ffc%2F24%2F7ff11448446fb8500bc984551325%2Faplogo-with-tagline.png 1x,https://dims.apnews.com/dims4/default/6669a9d/2147483647/strip/true/crop/992x617+0+0/resize/450x280!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.apnews.com%2Ffc%2F24%2F7ff11448446fb8500bc984551325%2Faplogo-with-tagline.png 2x", "https://sb.scorecardresearch.com/p?c1=2&c2=3005041&cv=4.4.0&cj=1" ]	[]	[]	[ "David Cameron", "Europe", "Gordon Brown", "Lobbying", "Financial services", "Health", "Business", "World News" ]	null	[]	2021-04-12T09:10:10+00:00	LONDON (AP) — The controversy over former British Prime Minister David Cameron’s lobbying on behalf of a now-bankrupt financial services firm deepened Monday as the government launched an investigation that opponents immediately labeled a “cover-up.”	en	/apple-touch-icon.png	AP News	https://apnews.com/article/lobbying-david-cameron-covid-19-pandemic-europe-coronavirus-pandemic-2f84245d4901474b07fa76c8c1053b3b	LONDON (AP) — The controversy over former British Prime Minister David Cameron’s lobbying on behalf of a now-bankrupt financial services firm deepened Monday as the government launched an investigation that opponents immediately labeled a “cover-up.” The Conservative government announced plans for an independent inquiry into Greensill Capital after Cameron made his first comments on the scandal and two senior politicians called for new rules on contacts between business representatives and government officials. Over the past month, a series of news reports revealed that Cameron lobbied government officials, including Treasury chief Rishi Sunak and Health Secretary Matt Hancock, on behalf of Greensill, which collapsed last month, threatening thousands of jobs at a British steelmaker that it helped finance. Gordon Brown, U.K. prime minister from 2007 to 2010, on Monday called for a five-year ban on lobbying by former ministers. But Bernard Jenkin, a lawmaker who led an inquiry into links between government and business, said the only way to combat this long-running problem is to require serving ministers and civil servants to report inappropriate conduct by lobbyists. “It’s been a culture in Whitehall that’s been building up for a long time,” Jenkin told the BBC, using a British term for central government. “This very informal way of conducting relationships about very important matters and the distribution of public money — well, I don’t think the public thinks that’s acceptable.” Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s spokesman said the Cabinet Office has commissioned an independent review into Greensill and its work on “supply-chain finance,” a technique the government sought to use to expedite payments to contractors, including pharmacies supplying the National Health Service. The review will be led by attorney Nigel Boardman and will look at the way contracts were secured and “how business representatives engaged with government,” Max Blain said. Johnson is the leader of the Conservative Party, the same party Cameron represented when he led the nation. Rachel Reeves, the opposition Labour Party’s spokeswoman on treasury issues, said the investigation was an attempt to sidestep the controversy until the public forgets about it, just as the government did with earlier allegations of bullying by a cabinet minister. She called on Cameron, Sunak and Hancock to appear before Parliament as soon as possible. “This has all the hallmarks of another cover-up by the Conservatives,” Reeves said. British media began digging into Cameron’s work for Greensill after the company’s collapse forced the owner of Liberty Steel, which employs about 5,000 people, to seek a government bailout. Greensill was one of the company’s key financial backers. The developments came after Cameron made his first comments on Greensill late Sunday, when he released an 1,800-word statement on his involvement with the firm. News reports showed that Cameron sent text messages to Sunak in an effort to secure government-backed loans for Greensill under a program to help companies hurt by the COVID-19 pandemic. He also lobbied Hancock on behalf of a Greensill product that would have allowed NHS workers to receive advance payments on their salaries. Cameron, who was employed as a part-time adviser to Greensill, said his work on behalf of the company didn’t break any rules or codes of conduct on the activities of former ministers. “However, I have reflected on this at length,” Cameron said. “There are important lessons to be learnt. As a former prime minister, I accept that communications with government need to be done through only the most formal of channels, so there can be no room for misinterpretation.” Cameron was prime minister from May 2010 to July 2016, resigning after he led the failed campaign for Britain to remain in the European Union. Lex Greensill, a banker who later founded Greensill Capital, began working as a government adviser in 2011. Cameron said he started working for Greensill in August 2018, and that he received shares in the company as part of his compensation. He rejected press reports that he expected the shares to be worth $60 million when Greensill went public. “Their value was nowhere near the amount speculated in the press,” he said. Brown said the government must act quickly in response to the Greensill affair because it has the potential to bring public service into “disrepute,” just like the parliamentary expenses scandal of 2008. At that time, several members of Parliament were found to have improperly inflated their expenses, leading to new rules governing their conduct. “For me, there are principles about public service,” Brown told the BBC. “It cannot ever become a platform for private gain. Ministers must never be lobbying — former ministers, prime ministers — must never be lobbying for commercial purposes.” ___ Associated Press Writer Jill Lawless contributed.
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Friend makes an important point. The Chancellor will be going into more detail on this issue. We need to ensure that the regulators and the SFO have all the powers they need. People will not understand why crimes on the high street are punished in one way but crimes in the banks and elsewhere are punished in another way. That absolutely needs to be cleared up, and I am sure that this Government will do so. The Prime Minister - Hansard - - - Excerpts The right hon. Gentleman makes a good point. However much one can look at the Greek situation and feel for the people who are suffering as a result of unemployment and living standards, there is a crying need for genuine reform in Greece, and for more straightforward and honest politics when it comes to dealing with those problems. That means making sure that people do pay their taxes, and making sure that industries are competitive. The issue of defence spending is obviously more complex because of the relationship between Greece and Turkey, but as we are now both NATO members and Turkey is an aspirant EU nation, there should be an opportunity to decrease Greek spending on national defence, while of course encouraging it to be a good NATO member at the same time. The Prime Minister - Hansard - - - Excerpts My hon. Friend makes a very important point. Absolutely no one suggested that dealing with deficits and securing growth were alternatives. They are complementary: we need both. That is the view of everyone around the G8 table. There is only group of people who have their heads in the sand and are complete deficit deniers, and they are the people who gave us the deficit in the first place. The Prime Minister - Hansard - - - Excerpts I certainly join my hon. Friend in praising Suffolk and other police forces in East Anglia and Essex who got police officers into our capital. The point I made about the deployment of officers is one of the lessons we have to learn about the ability to surge up numbers quickly when circumstances require it. The Prime Minister - Hansard - - - Excerpts The premise underlying the hon. Gentleman’s question is wrong. My understanding is that when there is a police investigation, as there is with hacking, if evidence is destroyed that breaks the law. That investigation is happening right now. As regards setting up the inquiry, the terms of reference are now in the Library for the hon. Gentleman to see. If he has suggestions and ideas he can make them known, but I sent the terms of reference to his right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition this morning for comments from the Labour party and we have incorporated those comments in full. The Prime Minister - Hansard - - - Excerpts My hon. Friend makes an important point. We should celebrate good journalism and social responsibility in journalism and media organisations. Let me put it on the record that many media organisations do some brilliant things in our country to build up what I call the big society. We must not damn all media because of what is happening and what has happened in some organisations. As well as a good regulatory system, we need a culture that is, yes, about getting to the truth but, no, not about breaking the law. The Prime Minister - Hansard - - - Excerpts Of course. The point about the inquiry, which I will be announcing in a moment or two, is that it will be judge led, it will take its powers from the Inquiries Act 2005, and it will be able to call people under oath. I think this is absolutely vital. As I say, there are three pillars to this. There is the issue of police corruption, there is the issue of what happened at the media, and there are also questions for politicians past, present and future. The Prime Minister - Hansard - - - Excerpts I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for his question. He is absolutely right: this is an issue of cross-party concern. As he knows, we completely agree with what was proposed for the human trafficking directive. We decided to wait and check that it would actually be in line with what was wanted and did not have further dangers in terms of our immigration policy. I am happy to say that we will be opting into the directive, with parliamentary permission. Above all, we must ensure that our arrangements are in place to help trafficked children, including in the way he suggests. The Prime Minister - Hansard - - - Excerpts My hon. Friend makes an important point. Some of the PFI deals that were entered into were extremely expensive, and the costs will rack up on taxpayers for years to come. He does not have to believe me, as we now have it from Labour’s shadow Health Secretary, who has made a number of helpful interventions in recent weeks. The latest one was in the Morning Star—not a paper I always read. Whether talking to a communist paper or backing Tory plans, he is very consistent: he is always in favour of what the Government are doing. He said: “There is definitely a case for saying we were poor at PFI, poor at negotiating PFI contracts from the outset.” I could not agree more. The Prime Minister - Hansard - - - Excerpts I strongly support the British police. They are the finest force in the world. What the police and other public servants know is that we were left a deep Budget deficit that we have to deal with. If we want to keep police officers on the streets, it is necessary to have the pay freeze that we are talking about. It is necessary to look, as Tom Winsor has done, at the allowances that they receive and to work out how we can make sure that we have well-paid, well-motivated police officers doing a great job in our country. Again, if the Labour party is just going to stand against every reform, every change and every improvement and say there is nothing we can do about any one of these problems, not only will it be irrelevant, but the British public will work out that it is irrelevant. The Prime Minister - Hansard - - - Excerpts I can certainly give my hon. Friend that assurance. This is a very disturbing case, and I am sure that hon. Members will all have heard about it this morning on the news. I think the police will want to do everything they can to get to the bottom of this dreadful crime and to bring the perpetrators to justice. The Prime Minister - Hansard - - - Excerpts I think that the biggest lesson is that the Irish followed one key new Labour policy, which was to join the euro. Fortunately, new Labour did not have the courage and bravery to follow through its own manifesto and listened very carefully to my right hon. Friend the Member for Richmond (Yorks) (Mr Hague), who fought a very strong campaign to keep us out of the euro. The Prime Minister - Hansard - - - Excerpts It is difficult to find a group that is against dealing with deficits. I think that even Cuba has now recognised that we need to take action—and that is the point. The G20 is united in the fact that we need to deal quickly with large and excessive deficits. That was the conversation around the table, and that is what is in the communiqué. There is only one group of people I can think of who would have been in the deficit denial corner: the Labour party. The Prime Minister - Hansard - - - Excerpts I am afraid that the hon. Gentleman’s break from Parliament did not do anything for his temper or his nature. He is completely wrong. We have to get these decisions right for the long term and, as I have tried to explain, a politically easier decision would have been a militarily wrong decision. That is a good way to start. The Prime Minister - Hansard - - - Excerpts I am well aware that the Conservative party did not sweep Scotland, and I thank the hon. Gentleman for reminding me of it. What I said I would do if we formed a Government was to go straight to Scotland and Wales to meet the First Ministers and have—[Interruption.] The hon. Gentleman has asked a question; he might as well listen to the answer before he starts shouting at me. I said that I would have proper meetings and have a respect agenda in which we respected the devolved Assemblies. I have to say that under the last Government there was a whole year during the financial crisis when the Prime Minister of our country did not even meet the First Minister of Scotland. That will not happen under this Government—we believe in respect.
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One of the few cabinet ministers to enjoy the favour of David Cameron, Theresa May, and Boris Johnson, and a loyal backer of the prime minister after a brief flirtation with the Conservative Party leadership, he appeared near-unsackable, particularly after the successful rollout of the vaccination programme. Indeed, Hancock had survived many a scandal during the pandemic itself. PPE contracts had been handed out to his former pub landlord, and he and his sister had profited from contracts handed out by NHS Wales. Even high court rulings that Hancock had failed to publish details of procurement contracts, and a damning report on test and trace by the public accounts committee, failed to dent his reputation. Hancock and the snogging scandal Then came the scandal which would end his career. In June 2021, news broke that Hancock had broken social distancing rules when engaging in an affair with Gina Coladangelo, an adviser in his department whom he had met at university. The scandal was in many ways the perfect storm. Hancock had been dictating one rule for the public and another for himself, in addition to giving special treatment to a personal acquaintance with whom he was having an extramarital affair. Throw into the mix the allure of a sex scandal, and the news dominated the headlines for days. Potentially the most scandalous thing about the affair, was the fact that the prime minister refused to sack the rule-breaking minister. After the scandal broke and Hancock apologised, Johnson stated that he “considered the matter closed”, and refused to sack Hancock. Johnson has been notable in failing to enforce standards among his inner circle. Priti Patel, Dominic Cummings, and Matt Hancock have all survived beyond the date when it was proven that they had committed offences well outside the bounds of expected behaviour. His refusal to sack Hancock not only demonstrates a lack of leadership, but also a shortcoming in the quality for which he was made prime minister: an ability to judge where the popular wind was blowing.
8744	dbpedia	0	7	https://alumni.christs.cam.ac.uk/matt-hancock-mp	en	Matt Hancock (MP)	https://alumni.christs.cam.ac.uk/view.image?id=1012	https://alumni.christs.cam.ac.uk/view.image?id=1012	[ "https://alumni.christs.cam.ac.uk/image/cc-site-template-images/logo-updated2.png", "https://alumni.christs.cam.ac.uk/image/enewsletter/Li.png", "https://alumni.christs.cam.ac.uk/image/enewsletter/Fl.png", "https://alumni.christs.cam.ac.uk/image/enewsletter/Tw.png", "https://alumni.christs.cam.ac.uk/image/enewsletter/Fb.png", "https://alumni.christs.cam.ac.uk/image/support-pages-redesign-2015-/FR_Fundraising-Badge_Primary_300ppi.png" ]	[]	[]	[ "distinguished member Matt Hancock (MP) politics" ]	null	[]	2021-06-27T14:17:34	distinguished member - Matt Hancock (MP)	en	view.image?id=1012		null	Matt Hancock is a British Conservative Party politician. Born in Chester, Hancock matriculated at Christ’s in 2002 and gained an MPhil in Economics. After leaving Christ’s, Hancock briefly worked for a backbench Conservative MP, before moving to London to work as an economist specialising in the housing market for the Bank of England. In 2005, he became an economic adviser to the Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, later becoming Osborne's chief of staff. In the 2010 General Election, Hancock was elected as the MP for West Suffolk. Later in 2010, and until 2012, he was elected to the Public Accounts Committee. In 2013, Hancock joined the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills as the Minister of State for Skills and Enterprise. In 2014, he was appointed Minister of State for Business and Enterprise. In 2015, Hancock became Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster General, and also headed David Cameron's "earn or learn" taskforce which aimed to have every young person either in employment or education from April 2017. After Theresa May became Prime Minister in 2016, Hancock became Minister of State for Digital and Culture in the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. In the 2018 cabinet reshuffle, he was appointed Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. In 2018, Hancock launched his own smartphone app – the first MP to do so. The app was meant as a social network to provide his constituents with information and give the wider public updates on his role in the cabinet. In 2018, Hancock was appointed Secretary of State for Health and Social Care. In 2019, Hancock announced that he intended to run for Conservative Party leadership after Theresa May announced that she would be stepping down, but ultimately withdrew his candidacy. Hancock kept his role as Health Secretary when Boris Johnson became Prime Minister in 2019 and was in this role during the COVID-19 pandemic. In August 2020, Hancock began making plans to merge Public Health England and NHS Test and Trace into a new body called the National Institute for Health Protection. In June 2021, Matt Hancock resigned as Secretary of State after admitting to breaching social distancing guidelines.
8744	dbpedia	3	55	https://hackinginquiry.org/the-triumph-of-cynicism-the-suppression-of-leveson-ii/	en	The Triumph of Cynicism: The Suppression of Leveson II	https://hackinginquiry.o…/Ian-lucas-1.png	https://hackinginquiry.o…/Ian-lucas-1.png	[ "https://hackinginquiry.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/HO-Logo-Variation-1-light-1.png", "https://hackinginquiry.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Copy-of-Ian-lucas-1.png", "https://hackinginquiry.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Official_portrait_of_Ian_C._Lucas_crop_2-400x600.jpg", "https://hackinginquiry.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Cameron-300x169.jpg", "https://hackinginquiry.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Brooks1080-300x169.jpg", "https://hackinginquiry.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/press-abuse-victims-300x200.jpg", "https://hackinginquiry.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/157154881-300x200.jpg", "https://hackinginquiry.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Copy-of-Untitled-1-1-e1616176959733-300x164.png", "https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1367085393309540354/z7mjE3cx_normal.jpg" ]	[]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[]	2021-04-13T10:36:23+01:00	"It seemed to me that telling the truth in Parliament no longer mattered"	en	https://hackinginquiry.o…00x400-32x32.jpg	Hacked Off - A Campaign For A Free And Accountable Press	https://hackinginquiry.org/the-triumph-of-cynicism-the-suppression-of-leveson-ii/	LONGREAD: The Triumph of Cynicism: The Suppression of Leveson II Ian Lucas Writer and consultant, former MP for Wrexham (2001 – 2019) Member of the Committee for Culture, Media and Sport, and Business Minister PART ONE: The Commons Agrees – for now. Members of Parliament speak with one voice rarely. One of those occasions was in 2011 when the House of Commons Chamber listened intently to the Prime Minister, David Cameron, recount the chilling history of the hacking of teenager Milly Dowler’s telephone following her disappearance and murder and what the Government he led intended to do about it: “Clearly there are two pieces of work that have to be done. First, we need a full investigation into wrongdoing in the press and the police…. Secondly, we need a review of regulation of the press…..after listening carefully, we have decided that the best way to proceed is with one inquiry, but in two parts.” This was to become the Leveson Inquiry and no-one in the Chamber that day disagreed. From the start, this was a subject of special interest to me. Years previously, before I entered Parliament, I had acted as a lawyer for Trevor Rees-Jones, the bodyguard who was the sole survivor of the car crash that killed Diana, Princess of Wales. I had seen Trevor, a victim of crime, seriously injured and unconscious in hospital, catapulted into the eye of a media storm. Those close to him, concerned for his life, were media targets too. Their lives were invaded by a press hungry for any personal information. Trevor’s family was treated as public property, with no regard to the impact on their lives, despite their intense fears as to Trevor’s fate. When I saw Milly Dowler’s family in news reports, the Rees-Jones’s came to my mind. Then I saw that the unanimity in the House of Commons Chamber that day, created by the actions of newspapers lacking any moral perspective, was a unique moment. We could try to make sure that, in future, the ordeals of the Dowler family like Rees-Jones’ before them, would not be repeated. I had seen the power of the tabloid press in the UK since my election in 2001. Even with very comfortable Parliamentary majorities, the Labour Government had worked constantly to keep newspapers, particularly News International, onside. Any policy pronouncement which alienated “The Sun” in particular was viewed by the Labour Government as reckless. Its endorsement of Tony Blair prior to 1997 had been perceived and presented as a seismic moment by a Labour Party scarred by 18 years in Opposition and frustrated by a largely hostile set of newspapers. For me, this explained why it was that, despite Sun Editor Rebekah Brooks’ admission to a Parliamentary Committee in 2004 that her newspaper had made illegal payments to police officers, nothing had happened. There was too much to lose – especially the precarious support of the largest selling tabloid in the UK. I saw what that meant in 2009. A weak Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, was at the Labour Party Conference, working desperately to shore up support and inject confidence into a Party facing defeat at the General Election to come. I was in the room when the Brown team heard the news that Labour had dreaded since the 1997 endorsement – The Sun was shifting its support to David Cameron’s Conservatives and was doing so at a time to inflict maximum damage to the Prime Minister. A chill went round the room as I saw in action the political power News International had at that time. The Dowler affair was so important because it showed that, despite all the political power of News International, that power had limits. Where a single, bereaved family had lost a child, the public would not forgive indefensible acts against that family. For any political party, whilst public attention was focussed on the Dowlers’ plight, the cost of supporting any news organisation responsible for such actions was too high. I believe that it was for that reason, in the febrile atmosphere of the House of Commons Chamber in 2011, David Cameron knew that he had no alternative other than to open the Pandora’s Box that was the Leveson Inquiry. What no-one knew at the time was that, before all of its contents were revealed, the lid on Pandora’s Box would be slammed shut again. PART TWO: Preparing the Ground Promises were made. Most importantly, they were made to the Dowler family and to the other victims of phone hacking. They were made, eye to eye, by the Prime Minister to the victims. They were made in Parliament as well as in person. But the history of the Leveson Inquiry is of the gradual resiling from those promises until finally, they were broken. An unanswered question is was the intention to break these promises from the start? On July 13 2011, however, Prime Minister Cameron was clear: “We have decided that the best way to proceed is with one inquiry, but in two parts.” Part One of the Leveson Inquiry proceeded on this basis, with the premise that there was to be, after criminal trials had concluded, in Cameron’s words: “A full investigation into wrongdoing in the press and the police.” The first indication that this was changing was in January 2015, junior Police Minister Mike Penning said: “The Government has been clear that a decision on whether to undertake Part 2 of the Leveson Inquiry will not take place until after all criminal investigations and trials related to Part 1 are concluded.” That new position was confirmed by a statement by spokesman for the new Conservative Government, elected in May 2015 to replace the Conservative/Liberal Democrat coalition, to the Daily Mail in December 2015: “Yesterday, a spokesman for No 10 said: ‘We have always been clear that a decision on whether or not to take forward part two of the Leveson Inquiry will not be taken until all criminal trials [are over].” A News International title followed up quickly the briefing which was happening from Government: “Senior government and judicial sources told The Times that the second part of the inquiry into press and police corruption would never see the light of day amid limited political appetite for another lengthy and expensive judicial inquiry into Fleet Street and the Met.” The Government itself now fed the untrue version of history: “Leveson part 2 will not be able to take place until after those investigations and trials have concluded. However, as soon as they have been completed, we will formally consult Sir Brian Leveson, as he now is, as chair of the inquiry before announcing what is appropriate.” Finally, in November 2016, under new Prime Minister Theresa May, the Government set up a formal consultation allowing the possibility of not commencing Leveson 2. The heat of the original debate around press intrusion and the Milly Dowler Affair had long subsided. It was no longer the focus of public attention which had moved on to the Brexit Referendum and its complex aftermath. Three new political party leaders had, for different reasons, replaced those who had expressed such unanimity in 2011. However, the first part of the Leveson Inquiry had been successfully concluded. Sir Brian Leveson had conducted the Inquiry in an exemplary way and produced a widely praised report. It was clear that any abandonment of Leveson 2 would have to overcome the substantial hurdle of the views of Sir Brian Leveson on its abandonment. That role fell to the new Culture Secretary, Matt Hancock. I had followed the Inquiry with interest. In 2015 I had become a member of the Commons’ DCMS Select Committee tasked with scrutinising this area, following up my long standing interest in the issue. I was, therefore, watching out for the Government statement on its response to the Consultation on Leveson 2 which, after a long delay, finally arrived on 1st March 2018. PART THREE: Breaking the Promise In accordance with convention, the Secretary of State made an Oral statement to the Commons Chamber on that day. I was present in my usual place on the Opposition back bench. I knew that I would need to listen with particular care to Matt Hancock’s statement and I was listening, especially, to what he said Lord Leveson had said. I was at a disadvantage: I had no advance sight of the statement or any of the documentation referred to in it. I heard Matt Hancock say: “Sir Brian, whom I thank for his service, agrees that the inquiry should not proceed under the current terms of reference but believes that it should continue in an amended form.” Even at the time in the Chamber, I thought the wording of this sentence was odd. It suggested that Sir Brian agreed with the Government but goes on to say that he thought the Inquiry should continue, unlike the Government. What did this mean exactly? It was impossible for me, or anyone else questioning Hancock that day, to know because we had not seen the detailed correspondence between Hancock and Leveson, a fact Hancock knew very well. Immediately after the statement, I rushed to the House of Commons Library and asked to see the correspondence. I was astonished to read Sir Brian’s own words in response to the Government’s conclusion that Part 2 of the Inquiry should not proceed: “I fundamentally disagree with that conclusion.” Far from Sir Brian agreeing with the Government, he disagreed. The moment in the Chamber had passed. The announcement that Leveson Part 2 would not take place had been made. Despite subsequent Points of Order in the Chamber pointing out that many MPs believed they had been misled as to Sir Brian’s views, it seemed the Secretary of State had got away with breaking a Prime Minister’s unequivocal commitment to hold Leveson II. I knew, however, that there would be another opportunity for me. The Commons’ Chamber can be an intimidating bear-pit. It allows a backbench MP, however, only one chance to hit home, with only one question. With no advance notice and on a technical issue, like the terms of the Leveson Inquiry, one blow would never be enough. In contrast, Select Committee examination allows detailed questioning to take a matter to its conclusion. In my own Ministerial career, I found answering to a Select Committee one of the most difficult jobs, especially defending a collective Government policy over which I had personal doubts. Matt Hancock was due to give evidence to the DCMS Committee later in March 2018 and I was determined to expose what I believed he had done – in my opinion he had misled the House of Commons, not inadvertently but quite deliberately, by use of specific language, designed to mislead. I was determined because I believed that this was not just a single event but the end of a long, planned, Government process over seven years, of resiling from the promises made by a Prime Minister, by a Government, to vulnerable individuals and families who were victims of an abuse of power. This would allow powerful businesses to continue to abuse people like the Dowlers. The unique opportunity to act which had been offered by the exposure of the hacking of Milly Dowler’s phone would have been lost. I also knew that no-one else would have this opportunity. PART FOUR: Truth Doesn’t Matter On 14 March 2018, I began my questioning of Matt Hancock with the detail which I knew was vital. I had prepared very intensively, choosing each word of my cross-examination carefully, quoting the correspondence between Hancock and Sir Brian Leveson: Ian Lucas: “When the Government corresponded with Sir Brian Leveson in December of last year they indicated in a letter dated 21 December that, and I quote, “We are not convinced the second part of the Inquiry is necessary”. In response to that letter of 21 December Sir Brian Leveson wrote back and, to quote Sir Brian Leveson, he said, “I fundamentally disagree with that conclusion”. Why did you not tell the House of Commons that? Matt Hancock: We published the letter on the same day that I announced the conclusion of the consultation. Ian Lucas: What you did, Secretary of State, was make a statement in the House of Commons. What you said, and I quote from Hansard, is, “Sir Brian, whom I thank for his service, agrees that the inquiry should not proceed under the current terms of reference but believes that it should continue in amended form”. Matt Hancock: That is right. Ian Lucas: You did not say that Sir Brian Leveson disagreed with the conclusion that the Government had reached. Matt Hancock: Implicitly I did because I said, as you read out, that he believes that it should continue in an amended form. That is his position as he sets it out in the letter. Ian Lucas: What Sir Brian Leveson said was that he fundamentally disagreed with the Government’s conclusion and when you made the statement to the Commons on 1 March you did not tell the Commons that, did you? Matt Hancock: I said that he believed that it should continue and that was his position. Obviously he disagreed with my conclusion, which is that initiating Leveson 2 is not what is needed and not in the national interest. Ian Lucas: He disagreed with you? Matt Hancock: Yes, he did, and he wrote that to me. Ian C. Lucas: What you told the Commons when you made your statement was that he agreed with you. Matt Hancock: No, I said that he agrees that the inquiry should not proceed under the current terms of reference, which is true, and he said that he believes that it should continue in an amended form, which is also true. I think by saying it in the way that I did I explained his position. I did not use his words but I explained his position. Ian Lucas: Secretary of State, I was in the Chamber for that statement and I was very concerned about what Sir Brian Leveson’s position was on this matter. When I listened to you my understanding was that his position was exactly the opposite of what you are now saying it was……. Ian C. Lucas: Can I tell you why this is important? We have tried to proceed on a basis of consensus thus far on an important area of policy. You are a new Secretary of State and you stood up in the House of Commons and you represented Sir Brian Leveson’s position. I think you misrepresented his position and I have told you why. Sir Brian Leveson fundamentally disagreed with the Government’s conclusion. Those are not my words, those are Sir Brian Leveson’s words. Why should I believe you today? Matt Hancock: Because everything I said then was accurate and I represented the position of his letter as a whole, that he believed that the inquiry should continue. I was standing up to explain that I thought that taking everything into account, all the changes since the Leveson Inquiry—all the changes in law, the fact that IPSO now exists—I decided that the best thing is not to have a backward-looking inquiry but a forward-looking inquiry. Ian Lucas: I know what your position is. What I am saying to you is that you misrepresented Sir Brian Leveson’s position to the Commons on that day. Matt Hancock: That is your view. We are not going to come to an agreement on it. I think I have faithfully represented it, as you read out. I can see that you would rather I had done differently. Ian C. Lucas: No, what I would rather is that you had been straightforward. I am a lawyer; I know when particular words are drafted for particular purposes, and I think your words were drafted to mislead. That is what I think. Matt Hancock: All I can say— Ian Lucas: What I would have preferred would be if you quoted Sir Brian Leveson when he said that he fundamentally disagreed with the conclusion that the Government had reached. Matt Hancock: I can see that that is your preference. I wrote my speech in order to describe his position and that is that. Ian Lucas: My preference, Secretary of State, is for honesty and straightforward evidence. I would welcome that from you. Matt Hancock: Noted. Looking back now, three years on, this exchange was a big part of my decision to stand down from Parliament the following year. I was always told that telling the truth was a fundamental part of Parliamentary process for a Member. I remembered, even as a child, reading about John Profumo and how his career had ended because he had told a lie to the House of Commons Chamber. It was my view that Hancock had misled me in the Commons Chamber and I thought I had exposed it in my cross-examination of him. What astonished me was his lack of contrition. What also astonished me was how little interest the press took in the exchange. I do not remember ever being asked by a journalist about the cross-examination. It seemed to me that telling the truth in Parliament no longer mattered.
8744	dbpedia	0	57	https://www.bmj.com/content/381/bmj.p1478	en	Covid-19: Hancock tells inquiry of “doctrinal failure” over pandemic planning	https://www.bmj.com/site…cover-source.jpg	https://www.bmj.com/site…cover-source.jpg	[ "https://www.bmj.com/sites/all/modules/contrib/panels_ajax_tab/images/loading.gif", "https://crossmark-cdn.crossref.org/widget/v2.0/logos/CROSSMARK_Color_horizontal.svg", "https://googleads.g.doubleclick.net/pagead/viewthroughconversion/973817434/?value=0&guid=ON&script=0" ]	[]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[ "Jacqui Wise" ]	2023-06-27T00:00:00	The UK government’s pandemic planning followed a flawed doctrine of dealing with deaths rather than stopping the spread of the virus, the former health secretary Matt Hancock has admitted. The country’s focus on planning for the consequences of a disaster, such as buying enough body bags or deciding where to bury dead people, was completely wrong, Hancock told the UK Covid-19 Inquiry on 27 June.1 “Central to planning should be how to stop the pandemic in the first place,” he said. He told the public inquiry that a consequence of this doctrinal failure was that large scale testing or contract tracing did not exist when it was needed and had to be built from scratch. The first section of the inquiry is looking at how prepared and resilient the UK was before covid-19 hit. This meant that Hancock was not asked about the government’s response to the pandemic, including lockdowns, test and trace, and personal protective equipment (PPE), which …	en	”/sites/default/themes/bmj/the_bmj/img/icon.png”/	The BMJ	https://www.bmj.com/content/381/bmj.p1478	The UK government’s pandemic planning followed a flawed doctrine of dealing with deaths rather than stopping the spread of the virus, the former health secretary Matt Hancock has admitted. The country’s focus on planning for the consequences of a disaster, such as buying enough body bags or deciding where to bury dead people, was completely wrong, Hancock told the UK Covid-19 Inquiry on 27 June.1 “Central to planning should be how to stop the pandemic in the first place,” he said. He told the public inquiry that a consequence of this doctrinal failure was that large scale testing or contract tracing did not exist when it was needed and had to be built from scratch. The first section of the inquiry is looking at how prepared and resilient the UK was before covid-19 hit. This meant that Hancock was not asked about the government’s response to the pandemic, including lockdowns, test and trace, and personal protective equipment (PPE), which will be covered in the second module of the inquiry in the autumn. Asked why he had not changed the approach to pandemic planning, Hancock said that it was because he had been assured that the UK was among the best in the world. With hindsight, he said, he wished that he had spent time changing the mindset within his department. He said he was told that influenza was “category 1,” as it was the most likely cause of a pandemic. But he told the inquiry that the focus on flu was not the central flaw of pandemic planning but rather the lack of focus on stopping the spread of a virus. In earlier evidence to the inquiry the former prime minister David Cameron, former chancellor George Osborne, and former health secretary Jeremy Hunt all admitted that the government had made a mistake in focusing on preparing for a flu pandemic at the expense of other potential threats.2 Resources diverted by Brexit Hancock was asked repeatedly about Exercise Cygnus, a 2016 cross government flu pandemic exercise strategy. The inquiry has seen evidence that only eight of the 22 recommendations made after the exercise had been fully dealt with by the time covid-19 hit. He confirmed that work streams to update the Exercise Cygnus document were paused because of a diversion of resources to prepare for the possibility of a no-deal Brexit. But he said that the inquiry would be wrong to conclude that the UK’s response would have been that much better if every lesson from Exercise Cygnus had been implemented. “This is because Cygnus was flawed in its central assumption about how best to respond to a pandemic,” he said. To make way for Brexit planning, the cross government Pandemic Flu Readiness Board did not meet for a year between November 2018 and November 2019, said the inquiry’s barrister, Hugo Keith. However, Hancock said that work on Brexit, including creating relationships with pharmaceutical suppliers and knowing more about medicine supply chains, had helped the UK to be better prepared. He said that the suppliers came “extremely close—within hours” of running out of medicines for intensive care and that the only reason they did not was because of work done in preparation for a no-deal Brexit. Keith said that, unlike some eastern Asian countries, there had been a failure in the UK to think about countermeasures such as mandatory quarantining, shielding, and border controls. Hancock agreed and said that he had had to over-rule the initial advice not to quarantine people coming in from Wuhan, China, as “it was madness.” He said that it was written into international health regulations that you should not close borders, and he said this was a World Health Organization problem, not just a UK problem. He added that the government had started buying PPE in January 2020, long before it was certain that covid-19 would be a global pandemic, but that problems with its stockpiles were very significant. He said that it should be a legal requirement for health and social care settings to hold significant stocks of PPE to get through the early weeks of a future pandemic, as “the sheer logistical complexity of setting up supply chains in short order is exceptionally difficult.” Hancock praised workers across health and social care during the pandemic, to which Keith said that they were “lions led by structural donkeys. Personally everyone gave their all, but the system was not fit for purpose, was it?” Hancock replied, “That’s absolutely right.”
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Get Me Out Of Here after Reform Leader Nigel Farage took part last year - as insider claims 'people have had enough of seeing politicians on their screens' Several former Tory MPs who lost their seats in Labour's election landslide might be desperate for a well-paid stint on reality TV. Covid Inquiry: State failings led to mass death and suffering, damning report concludes - Health Secretaries Hancock and Hunt did not prepare UK for 'catastrophic' pandemic that killed more than 230,000 Britons Baroness Heather Hallett, delivered her first report into the pandemic, highlighting the lack of preparedness and resilience that meant the virus tore through the country. EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Rolling Stone Bill Wyman says two-year marriage to second wife Mandy Smith was a 'total disaster' Aged 52 at the time - he married Mandy when she was 18 having 'fallen in love' with her when she was just 13 - he has since been married to Suzanne Acosta for more than 30 years. Gareth Gates reveals he suffered an awful encounter with Matt Hancock after the former MP tried to spark a chat while he was sat on the loo Speaking exclusively to MailOnline, Gareth, who won the show, said the experience of having to go to the toilet next to a politician in the jungle was 'really humbling'. Matt Hancock libelled parliamentary candidate Andrew Bridgen 'to devastating extent' by accusing him of anti-Semitism, High Court hears Andrew Brigden, the former North West Leicestershire MP, is bringing a libel case against Mr Hancock over a post on X, formerly Twitter. Gordon Ramsay and wife Tana finally move back into their £7.5M London mansion after two years of renovations and multiple planning rows The celebrity chef, 57, and his wife Tana, 49, were spotted returning to the south London mansion on Wednesday which they bought for in 2002 for £2.8million. Smiling Rishi jokes with veterans in Spoons about 'the amount of people who have given me an umbrella' after getting soaked in the pouring rain while announcing snap July 4 election Going back to his Northallerton, in his Richmond constituancy, the Prime Minister joked that he avoided catching pneumonia after getting wet while speaking outside 10 Downing Street. Rishi Sunak WILL campaign today in Yorkshire - after reports claimed he would 'spend the day at home after shaky start to election' The Prime Minister has endured a torrid few days since announcing the date of the election earlier this week. Andrea Leadsom is latest to join Tory exodus: Former leadership contender to stand down at the general election as Michael Gove also announces he will quit amid growing pressure on Rishi Sunak In a letter to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak posted on X, Andrea Leadsom said she had come to the decision after 'careful reflection' but did not go into detail about her reasons for quitting. Michael Gove QUITS parliament: Cabinet minister heaps pressure on Rishi Sunak by becoming the most high-profile MP to join record-breaking Tory election exodus days after backing PM's decision to call vote on July 4 The Communities Secretary, 56, who has served under four Conservative Prime Ministers since 2015, confirmed he will not contest his Surrey Heath seat on July 4. Tory election exodus breaks John Major's 1997 record as 76 Conservatives including 'Bionic MP' Craig Mackinlay say they will quit at the next election - overtaking 75 who stepped down ahead of Tony Blair's landslide 'Cool Britannia' victory Some 76 Conservatives have now said they will stand down rather than contest the July 4 vote, one more than stepped down ahead of Tony Blair's landslide win in 1997. 'Bionic MP' joins Tory exodus after Rishi Sunak calls an early election: Thanet South's Craig Mackinlay says campaigning for July 4 is 'impossible' after losing hands and feet to sepsis as number jumping ship equals 75 record as Greg Clark follows suit The South Thanet Tory was applauded in the Commons on Wednesday as he returned from a life-threatening battle with sepsis with four prosthetic limbs. Rail Minister reaches the end of the line as Tory election exodus grows: Huw Merriman becomes latest senior figure to step down on July 4 following departure of former PM Theresa May and three ex-chancellors amid fears for hundreds of seats Huw Merriman confirmed he would not contest Bexhill and Battle, the East Sussex seat he has held since 2015. He is one of four Tories to step down today, taking the total to 69. The election exodus of the Tory big hitters: Former PM Theresa May, ex-chancellors Nadhim Zahawi and Sajid Javid, and Boris's deputy Dominic Raab among more than 100 MPs standing down on July 4 amid fears hundreds of Conservatives will lose their seats More than 100 from across all parties already deciding to bow out. And MPs now having just days to decide whether they will stand or not. Former PM Theresa May and ex-chancellor Nadhim Zahawi lead exodus of more than 100 MPs standing down ahead of July 4 general election Former Prime Minister Theresa May and ex-Chancellor Nadhim Zahawi are part of a 65-strong Tory contingent that will leave Parliament after voters go to the polls on July 4. I'm A Celeb bosses 'have been warned watchdogs will come down on them like a ton of bricks' if they continue to sign up politicians for the show I'm A Celebrity bosses have been warned watchdogs will 'come down on them like a ton of bricks' if they continue to sign a specific type of celebrity. UK's little-known deal with AstraZeneca means YOU will pay compensation to anyone injured by pharma firm's lockdown-ending jab The jab, developed in the UK, was supposed to be a shining example of British ingenuity that would banish the devastating Covid pandemic, now it's being hauled through the courts. How safe is AstraZeneca's Covid jab? What are the side effects? And why do victims only have a 3-year cut-off for compensation? All your questions answered… The jab, developed with Oxford University, can no longer be used in the European Union after the company voluntarily withdrew its 'marketing authorisation'. Kathy Burke sparks feud with TV duo Ant McPartlin and Dec Donnelly as she brands them 'f***g a****s' in shocking outburst The comedian has sparked a feud with duo Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly as she shared what she really thinks of the Geordie presenters. EPISODE 7: Straight to the Comments! - James Argent: Matt Hancock's WhatsApp Buddy James 'Arg' Argent, joins Josh and Archie. He talks his weight-loss, we get the exclusive story of how he became a missing person and discover what Matt Hancock's last WhatsApp message to him was! Lockdown trysts, parliament liaisons and romps amid the red boxes: Harold Wilson's affair puts him on the list of politicians including Hancock, Major, Prescott, Ashdown and Lloyd George who have proved that power is the greatest aphrodisiac of all Edwina Currie revealed her four-year affair with Sir John in her diaries in 2002. The sexual liaison began in the 1980s, when Sir John was a government whip. Above: The pair in 1994. James Argent reveals he and Matt Hancock are still good friends after the former health secretary 'supported' him through Channel 4's Celebrity SAS The TOWIE star, 36, admitted that the former MP 'supported' him while they appeared together on Channel 4's fifth series of Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins. James Argent reveals he's now trying to GAIN weight after gastric sleeve surgery saw him lose 14 stone He reached a staggering 27 stone during lockdown as his eating spiralled out of control. But now, TOWIE star James had told how he's keen to put weight on again. Anti-vaxxer MP Andrew Bridgen is told to pay Matt Hancock £40,000 for legal fee costs in libel war over a 'malicious' post made by disgraced former Health Secretary on social media, judge rules Mr Bridgen wants to 'clear his name' after allegedly being accused of antisemitism in a 'malicious' social media post by Mr Hancock, the High Court in London previously heard. Now it's REALLY the end of the Covid era! Routine lateral flows for patients being discharged from hospitals into care homes will be axed next week It means the new system in England, enforced from April 1, will only see free tests provided to at-risk staff and residents with symptoms. NADINE DORRIES: The moment I saw an aborted foetus gasping for breath scarred me for life. Extending 'pills by post' abortion right up to birth would be a terrible mistake My months on the gynaecological ward had been the happiest and most rewarding of my short career - until I was asked to help during the termination of a pregnancy at 27 weeks. NHS patients died after eating chicken mayo sandwiches contaminated with listeria: Deaths of retired nurse, 57, and 84-year-old in hospital were linked to pre-packed sandwiches, inquest rules Retired nurse Beverley Sowah, 57, and mother-of-five Enid Heap, 84, were given the sandwiches on successive days while patients at Manchester Royal Infirmary.. The Covid Inquiry 'is biased for failing to look at the impact of lockdown', public health experts claim Public health experts have accused the Covid Inquiry of 'bias', saying the failure to investigate the impact of lockdown makes it unfit for purpose. Matt Hancock is humiliated by Sir Jacob Rees Mogg's son, 16, over his lockdown affair after ex Health Secretary made joke about his father being 'not a good politician' during speech to Eton schoolboys Peter Rees-Mogg, one of the Conservative backbencher's six children, was among those present at a talk at the public school in Berkshire. I'm A Celeb bosses 'ban politicians from appearing on the ITV show' following controversial signings including Matt Hancock and Nigel Farage After a number of controversial signings including former Health Minister Matt Hancock and ex-UKIP leader Nigel Farage, show bosses are said to be keen to avoid including any more. What happened to Ukrainians who moved in with celebrities and politicians? From Chris Tarrant buying refugees their very own flat, to the Tory MP who put up three generations of the same family, the famous faces who offered help Broadcasters Chris Tarrant and Rachel Riley and Tory MPs Matt Hancock , Grant Shapps , David Cameron and Robert Jenrick are among high-profile Brits to welcome refugees. They're a politician... get them out of there! I'm A Celeb bookers told to 'avoid political figures' after Nigel Farage ratings slump The order to ditch the politicians has come from ITV bosses after a lot of viewers chose to skip last year's edition of I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! The real doctor behind ITV's latest Covid drama: How Oxford-educated journalist-turned-medic behind Breathtaking led criticism of the Government's handling of the pandemic with scathing tweets while on the NHS frontline Events in the script are heavily based around the pandemic memoirs of Dr Rachel Clarke, a palliative care doctor in Oxford who was seconded onto virus-riddled wards. Chilling Breathtaking scene shows sobbing NHS doctors turning off the life support of a young nurse who died from the virus in new three-part ITV drama that has divided the nation ITV 's three-part drama illustrating the horrors NHS workers endured in the pandemic, features a scene which TV critics described as 'so realistic it will break your heart'. Harrowing scenes in ITV show Breathtaking are hailed by viewers including health workers and MPs as drama lays bare the huge impact of the Covid pandemic on the NHS Traumatised doctors, nurses and patients shared how last night's programme - based on a book by Dr Rachel Oxford - brought back memories of the first coronavirus wave in March 2020. ITV's Breathtaking is the best pandemic drama yet - even if it might make you dizzy, writes CHRISTOPHER STEVENS CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: Lurching between close-ups and chasing through wards, the handheld photography on Breathtaking was enough to bring on symptoms of dizziness. Tear-jerking scene in ITVs new three-part Covid drama Breathtaking shows patient being left to die in the back of an ambulance because pandemic-era rules stopped paramedics from doing CPR Pandemic-era rules - illustrated in tonight's 9pm episode of ITV's Breathtaking - stopped medics in some trusts from performing CPR without adequate PPE. Strict new prescription rules introduced as anti-epilepsy drug leads to birth defects Birth defects linked to potent anti-epilepsy pills have led to strict new prescription rules being introduced. Ex-boss of Covid vaccine taskforce Clive Dix fights back tears as he tells MPs that 'incompetent decisions' have left Britain ill-prepared for another inevitable pandemic Dr Clive Dix, who served as its chair from the end of 2020, said the Government 'destroyed almost everything that was going on' after trumpeting the success of the vaccines. Will tear-jerking new ITV Covid drama have the 'Mr Bates effect'? Three-part series by Line of Duty's Jed Mercurio lays bare horrors of NHS wards during pandemic's darkest days - with scenes so powerful actress Joanne Froggatt CRIED reading the scripts The minds behind a new drama set on an NHS Covid ward in the pandemic, the scripts of which reduced stars to tears, hope it could inspire real-world change like Mr Bates vs The Post Office. The Traitors creator Marc Pos reveals the hit show was turned down for FIVE years by Dutch broadcasters before it finally achieved worldwide success Dutch creator Mark Pos, the mastermind behind the show, has revealed that his hit psychological thriller was ignored about 40 or 50 times before it was gradually snapped up by broadcasters. BBC bosses 'planning celebrity version of The Traitors after show's huge success, with Wagatha Christie rivals Coleen Rooney and Rebekah Vardy being eyed-up for series' The Traitors is reportedly being lined-up for a celebrity spin-off version of the show following the success of the first two series. Ministers draw battle lines over prized Damien Hirst portrait of late Queen Elizabeth II which has bounced around five Whitehall offices in as many years Beautiful Portrait, The Queen, by Damien Hirst is one of the most highly prized pieces in the Government Art Collection and has been hung in five Whitehall offices in the space of five years. £145million: Staggering cost of Covid Inquiry so far - and it's still got another three years to run Taxpayer-funded packages have been dealt to legal firms and solicitors in England tasked with probing key witnesses, as well as data processing companies. CRAIG BROWN: What next for Nigel Farage... A turn on Strictly Come Dancing? CRAIG BROWN: So will Nigel Farage 's third place in I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! rocket him to the forefront of British politics? Nigel Farage claims he told ITV bosses to go to hell following FURIOUS row over his naked I'm A Celebrity scenes Nigel Farage has reportedly told ITV bosses to 'go to hell' following a furious clash over his naked body scenes which aired on I'm A Celebrity multiple times. I'm A Celebrity final viewing figures plummet by FOUR MILLION compared to last year as 7.6 million tune in to see Sam Thompson crowned King Of The Jungle An average of 6.6 million viewers tuned in to watch Sam Thompson be crowned King of The Jungle on Sunday night , peaking at 7.6 million. Nigel Farage defends his £1.5million I'm A Celeb fee and admits he couldn't wait for a pint after leaving camp - as he enjoys Guinness with Aussie locals Nigel Farage defended his £1.5million I'm A Celebrity fee as he appeared on Monday's Good Morning Britain after the show's final. King Of The Jungle Sam Thompson enjoys a surprise family reunion as he arrives back to luxury hotel after his I'm A Celeb win His second cousin Charlotte, 35, who lives in Australia and her mother Celia, 52, have not seen Sam in five years and found out he was participating in I'm A Celebrity on his Instagram. Around 100 girls and women have been investigated for 'illegal abortions' since Covid including GCSE student, 15, and mother whose house was searched as she gave mouth-to-mouth to her premature baby Healthcare providers claim they have seen a 'sharp increase' in requests by police to share medical records and other personal data of women who have sought help with abortions or stillbirths. King Of The Jungle Sam Thompson receives a hero's welcome after his I'm A Celeb win as he arrives at luxury hotel with runners-up Tony Bellew and Nigel Farage The former Made In Chelsea star, 31, has been the bookies favourite to win for the past couple of weeks and stormed to victory as he was crowned King Of The Jungle. I'm A Celeb fans BEG for Jungle King Sam Thompson and runner-up Tony Bellew to start their own show after their 'bromance carried the series' The Made In Chelsea star, 31, was crowned King Of The Jungle on Sunday night's episode, beating the professional boxer and Nigel Farage who placed third. I'm A Celebrity viewers hail Sam Thompson the 'most deserving winner ever' as they react after he was crowned King Of The Jungle The Made In Chelsea star, 31, has been hailed as the 'most deserving winner ever' by his fellow campmates and viewers at home. I'm A Celeb viewers are all saying the same thing as Nigel Farage claims third place in final - the same position as Matt Hancock last year The former UKIP leader, 59, made it to the final three campmates and narrowly missed out on the win - after Sam Thompson was declared King of the Jungle and Tony Bellew came second. Reality star Sam Thompson is crowned King Of The Jungle: I'm A Celebrity fan favourite says 'all my dreams have come true' as he beats boxing legend Tony Bellew in the final two after politician Nigel Farage finished third I'm A Celebrity's Sam Thompson has been crowned King Of The Jungle as he beat Tony Bellew who finished in second place. I'm A Celebrity hosts Ant and Dec call for no more politicians on the show after ex UKIP boss Nigel Farage's £1.5m signing Allies of Farage, 59, have hit out at the broadcaster on various claims over the past two weeks including cutting his airtime, breaking an 'indecency' clause. Matt Hancock defends catastrophic decision to empty Covid-infected patients into care homes: Ex-Health Secretary says MORE patients could have died without 'difficult option' in grilling over testing failures Care homes in England were forced to accept hospital patients who hadn't been tested. They went on to log more than 43,000 Covid deaths during the first two years of the pandemic. Nicola Sturgeon's habit of 'gazumping' UK government announcements during Covid was 'unhelpful and confusing', says Matt Hancock Giving evidence to the official inquiry, former health secretary Matt Hancock gave a damning assessment of Nicola Sturgeon's behaviour. Matt Hancock is let off lightly over his Covid rule-breaking affair with Gina Coladangelo as he appears at official inquiry - but fails to apologise after he was caught on CCTV kissing her in his office Matt Hancock's flouting of Covid guidelines and resignation in June 2021 was brought up during the second day of his evidence to the official inquiry. Rishi Sunak 'wanted to close schools instead of shops in Autumn 2020': Extraordinary details of Cabinet wrangling emerge at Covid Inquiry as Matt Hancock claims tougher measures could have avoided pupils being forced to stay at home at start of 2021 The Covid Inquiry heard extraordinary details of Cabinet squabbling about how to handle a surge in cases as Matt Hancock gave a second day of evidence. QUENTIN LETTS: In six hours of Matt Hancock's evidence at the Covid Inquiry all we really found out was that he loathes the The Man He Would Not Name... Dominic Cummings During Mr Hancock's six hours at the Covid Inquiry witness table, not a single rude word was said, though a few were implied. SNP rocked by discovery of intimate texts revealing two politicians' torrid lockdown affair - at the same time the party insisted Scots stayed home The secret relationship is said to have carried on during the Covid pandemic in 2020, when the SNP forced the rest of the country to stay at home under tough lockdown restrictions. Matt Hancock tells Covid Inquiry his 'single greatest regret' was to not overrule scientists who said virus couldn't be spread by those without symptoms... and says he should have followed his 'hunch' The former health secretary claimed the UK's scientific advisers told him there was no 'concrete evidence' the virus could spread between people with no symptoms. Katherine Ryan reveals she turned down I'm A Celebrity because she is 'against glorifying dangerous people like Nigel Farage' for entertainment The Canadian comedian, 40, revealed she decided to turn down the opportunity to go in the jungle because she is 'against glorifying dangerous people'. Sadiq Khan handed an ultimatum to Boris Johnson at the start of the pandemic Covid demanding the PM lock down London or he would do it himself, capital's mayor tells Covid Inquiry as he claims 'lives could have been saved if he was involved sooner' In evidence handed to the Covid Inquiry, Mr Khan told the then prime minister he would 'speak directly to Londoners with a tougher message' if Mr Johnson decided not to tell people to stay at home. I'm A Celebrity viewing figures continue to plunge as another 1.3M viewers switch off after the show's launch was down 2.2million on 2022 I'm A Celebrity viewing figures continued to drop over the weekend as another 1.3million people switched off compared to Monday's episode. Michael Gove and Matt Hancock quizzed as part of fraud probe into a PPE firm linked to Baroness Mone The move was part of the NCA's investigation into PPE Medpro, which was awarded £200 million of contracts during the pandemic. Omid Scobie's scathing book expected to blame embattled civil servant Simon Case for deepening the rift between William and Harry Omid Scobie's new book, Endgame, is thought to include accusations against Cabinet Secretary Simon Case that he planted negative stories about Harry while working as William's secretary, Mother-of-five Danielle Lloyd, 39, shows off her surgically-enhanced figure in a skimpy brown cut out bikini during a Dubai holiday Danielle Lloyd showcased her sensational figure in a brown bikini as she soaked up the sun on Thursday during a lavish Dubai holiday. I'm A Celebrity suffers ANOTHER ratings blow as new series continues to draw less viewers despite heated Dadgate row Tuesday night's instalment saw a blazing row between contestants Nella Rose and Fred Sirieix but it wasn't enough to boost viewership. I'm A Celeb's Nigel Farage admits he wants to take part in trials to get 25% of the airtime as show loses 2.2million viewers over his £1.5m signing During Tuesday's episode, the former politician, 59, told food critic Grace Dent , 50, about his plan to reach a 'new audience'. I'm A Celebrity viewing figures plunge AGAIN as 1million viewers switch off after series debut was down 2.2million on its 2022 launch Previously, the reality TV series launched with a peak audience of 7.8 million (average 7 million), down 2.2million from the show's launch the year before. UK lockdown needed to be 'earlier, harder and broader', Sir Patrick Vallance says but admits there was no scientific basis behind 'rule of six' Asked about the phrase today at the Covid Inquiry, Sir Patrick Vallance, No10's ex-chief scientific adviser, repeated his view that the UK didn't act fast enough during the first wave in March 2020. What Sir Patrick Vallance REALLY thought during Covid: Explosive extracts of No10's ex-chief scientist, who kept diaries at 'the end of immensely stressful days to protect his mental health' The notes by the UK's former Chief Scientific Adviser have been described as 'a brain dump', written 'at the end of immensely stressful days to protect his mental health'. Matt Hancock had a 'habit of saying things' which weren't true, Sir Patrick Vallance tells Covid Inquiry as he calls shamed ex-Health Secretary 'over-enthusiastic' No10's ex-chief scientist, tasked with advising ministers throughout the pandemic, blamed the former Health Secretary's 'over-enthusiasm' for making bold claims he 'didn't have a basis for'.
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News	https://uk.news.yahoo.com/matt-hancock-says-david-camerons-return-to-government-is-brilliant-decision-145035754.html	Former health secretary Matt Hancock has hailed David Cameron's return to politics as "superb for Britain" Rishi Sunak's appointment of Cameron as foreign secretary is likely to be controversial given his Brexit legacy, and the fact he is unelected The prime minister's Cabinet reshuffle comes after the sacking of home secretary Suella Braverman, who was accused of stoking tensions ahead of Armistice Day protests Matt Hancock has hailed Rishi Sunak's appointment of David Cameron as foreign secretary as a "brilliant decision". In a post on X, formerly Twitter, the former health secretary said: "Superb for Britain - bringing his experience to guide us through difficult times." "Excellent for the @Conservatives, showing @RishiSunak will fight the election on the centre ground. Bravo." Hancock is not the only one who is glad to see such an experienced politician return to the fold, with former prime minister Theresa May tweeting: "Congratulations to @David_Cameron on his return to government. "His immense experience on the international stage will be invaluable at this time of great uncertainty in our world. Looking forward to working together again!" Cameron's appointment is likely to be controversial as many ardent Remainers are still angry at the former prime minister - a self-proclaimed Remainer - calling the Brexit referendum that his side would go on to lose. Others are uneasy with the fact that having resigned as an MP after the 2016 referendum result, he has been made a lord in order for him to fill a ministerial position. Recommended reading David Cameron latest news: Ex-PM named foreign secretary as Suella Braverman sacked in reshuffle (Yahoo News) TV presenters covering Braverman’s sacking burst into laughter at David Cameron's appearance in middle of reshuffle (Yahoo News) How happy are you that David Cameron is back? Poll of the week (Yahoo News) Hancock's praise of Cameron may not be seen as a ringing endorsement, with the former health secretary becoming unpopular with the public after he was found to have broken the Covid social distancing rules he imposed on the country during the pandemic. More recently, his reputation has taken a beating in the Covid inquiry, which heard how top civil servant Lord Sedwill urged Boris Johnson to sack him to “to save lives and protect the NHS”. Cameron has received praise from some people who've managed to keep hold of their Cabinet roles, however, with transport secretary Mark Harper describing his appointment as "an excellent move". “I was in David Cameron’s government as his chief whip. He’s a team player, hugely experienced," the minister said. “Given the challenges facing us with the war in Ukraine (and) what’s going on in the Middle East, having a really experienced person coming in as foreign secretary, I think, is an excellent move. He’s a real team player and I look forward to seeing him around the Cabinet table.” When was David Cameron made a lord? Some are uncomfortable that Cameron, who resigned as MP for Witney in 2016, can be appointed to such a major Cabinet position despite being unaccountable to the electorate. In order for Sunak to do this, he had to give Cameron a lifelong peerage in the House of Lords, whose members can also serve in the Cabinet. Confirming Cameron's appointment in a statement on Monday, Number 10 said: "The King has been pleased to approve the appointment of the Rt Hon David Cameron as secretary of state for foreign, Commonwealth and development affairs. "His Majesty has also been pleased to confer the dignity of a Barony of the United Kingdom for life upon David Cameron. The Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP remains as Chancellor of the Exchequer." Read more: How can David Cameron be a minister when he isn't an MP and what is his salary? Criticising the move, Green Party MP Caroline Lucas said: "How are elected MPs to directly question a Foreign Sec who can’t stand at Commons dispatch box? "Are major foreign policy statements to be made in unelected House of Lords now? This is unacceptable degrading of key office of state and Commons must have primacy." The Electoral Reform Society, which wants to replace the Lords with a smaller elected chamber, added: "No Prime Minister should be able to appoint anyone they like to the major offices of state, simply by making them a Lord." What does the foreign secretary do? The foreign secretary has overall responsibility for the work of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO). Some of Cameron's main responsibilities in his new role will include managing relations with foreign countries and governments, promoting British interests abroad and handling matters related to Commonwealth countries and UK overseas territories. The foreign secretary is also responsible for the work of GCHQ and the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) - also known as MI6 - while the home secretary is responsible for the Security Service (MI5). Who was the previous foreign secretary? Before Cameron, the previous foreign secretary was James Cleverly, who is now stepping into Suella Braverman's role as home secretary. On Monday Sunak sacked Braverman, who was accused of stoking tensions with inflammatory rhetoric, which was blamed for clashes between police, pro-Palestine protesters and far-right counter-demonstrators in London over the weekend. Cleverly faces a number of challenges in his new job, including an imminent ruling on the lawfulness of the government’s plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda, and will have to deal with the fallout if Number 10 loses. In a statement on X, in which he did not congratulate Cameron for taking his old job, Cleverly said: "It is an honour to be appointed as home secretary. The goal is clear. My job is to keep people in this country safe." Cameron will face a number of global crises demanding his attention as he steps into his new role, including the ongoing war in Ukraine and the Israel-Hamas conflict. As recently as Thursday, Cleverly was in Saudi Arabia discussing efforts to prevent fighting in Gaza escalating into a wider regional conflict, with Middle Eastern foreign ministers, and Cameron will face an immediate task of carrying on that diplomatic effort. Meanwhile Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky has warned of a “winter onslaught” from Russia that will require further support from the West.