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    • Tuesday, 27 June, 2023
      UK Covid inquiry
      Matt Hancock says UK pandemic planning was skewed towards disaster clear-up

      Former health secretary tells Covid inquiry the country should have focused more on halting disease transmission

      Matt Hancock arrives to give evidence to the Covid-19 inquiry in London on Tuesday
    • Monday, 12 June, 2023
      Coronavirus
      UK Covid inquiry to launch amid continuing row over evidence

      Almost every aspect of pandemic will be put under microscope in investigations expected to last until 2026

      The Covid Memorial Wall opposite the Houses of Parliament in London
    • Wednesday, 12 April, 2023
      Hancock ‘shocked and surprised’ by standards commissioner inquiry

      As well as probe into ex-health secretary, parliamentary watchdog looking at Tory MPs Scott Benton and Henry Smith

      Matt Hancock
    • Sunday, 12 March, 2023
      Pilita Clark
      Is WhatsApp making work life more nasty and brutish?

      Leaked messages written by the UK’s hapless former health secretary suggest it might be

    • Thursday, 9 March, 2023
      Jemima Kelly
      You don’t restore trust in the media by abandoning objectivity

      In the current political climate we need to double down on fundamental journalistic principles, not surrender them

      Ben Hickey illustration of a fountain pen holding the scales of justice
    • Saturday, 4 March, 2023
      Henry Mance
      The tragedy of Matt Hancock

      The UK’s Covid-era health secretary is not so much incompetent as annoying

      Matt Hancock: it’s hard to get past his mistake of giving a hostile, untrustworthy journalist his WhatsApps
    • Friday, 3 March, 2023
      UK politics
      Off message: Hancock saga reveals central role of WhatsApp in UK politics

      Contents of archive seized on by anti-lockdown campaigners ahead of public inquiry entering a more public phase

      Matt Hancock on a phone with WhatsApp logos
    • Wednesday, 1 March, 2023
      UK care homes
      UK government defends handling of Covid in care homes

      Response follows report accusing former health secretary Matt Hancock of rejecting expert advice on testing

      Matt Hancock
    • Wednesday, 1 March, 2023
      FT Alphaville
      What really happened with Matt Hancock’s Newcastle Shirt

      Give your shirt and wear it too

    • Tuesday, 21 February, 2023
      Matt Hancock MP is promoting NFTs for his former Ukrainian lodgers

      What’s the story, non-fungible Tory?

    • Tuesday, 15 November, 2022
      UK politics
      Hancock has undermined role of MP, says Sunak

      UK prime minister accuses former health secretary of debasing politics through TV show appearance

      Matt Hancock taking part in a trial on ‘I’m A Celebrity. . . Get Me Out Of Here!’
    • Wednesday, 9 November, 2022
      Media
      How much would your MP need to be paid to eat a kangaroo penis on national television?

      Alphaville abhors politics, but loves exotic market prices

    • Thursday, 3 November, 2022
      Sebastian Payne
      Britain must learn to love boring politics again

      Matt Hancock’s reality television debut should mark the long hoped for end to Tory psychodrama

      Rather than raising engagement for political causes, Matt Hancock can now look forward to ingesting the private parts of exotic animals on national TV
    • Tuesday, 1 November, 2022
      FT Alphaville
      Kangaroo balls > crypto?

      Plus: A Dick and a Johnson walk into a blockchain symposium

    • Tuesday, 1 November, 2022
      Hancock loses Tory whip after signing up for ITV reality show

      Former health secretary suspended ‘with immediate effect’ as allies defend ‘incredible opportunity’

      Matt Hancock
    • Wednesday, 24 August, 2022
      Metaverse
      What’s the story, hunky Tory?

      Matt Hancock “is launching into the Metaverse”, with some quite perky pecs.

    • Tuesday, 26 July, 2022
      UK government spending
      MPs criticise award of £777mn Covid contracts to medical group Randox

      ‘Impossible to have confidence’ deals issued to diagnostics company were done properly, says committee report

      A member of staff hands over a Randox laboratories Covid-19 self test kit
    • Friday, 18 February, 2022
      FT AlphavilleJemima Kelly
      What’s the story, blockchain Tory?

      Matt Hancock has a new passion, and it’s not one of his aides this time.

    • Thursday, 15 July, 2021
      UK Government
      Two homes raided in criminal probe of Hancock video leak

      UK Information Commissioner’s Office acts after ‘breach report’ from CCTV operator at health department

    • Sunday, 11 July, 2021
      Whitehall reform
      Hancock affair highlights opaque world of Whitehall non-execs

      Ministers usually make final decision on appointments, despite part of role being to scrutinise government

    • Friday, 2 July, 2021
      News in-depthUK Government
      Probe into Hancock footage leak focuses on use of Whitehall CCTV

      Investigation seeks to unravel how the former health secretary came to be filmed, apparently unknown, in his ministerial office

    • Thursday, 1 July, 2021
      Jo Ellison
      Let’s not be so laissez-faire about affairs

      If someone can tell bald-faced lies to their family and friends, why should we trust them to do their job?

      Matt Hancock and aide Gina Coladangelo outside the BBC
    • Wednesday, 30 June, 2021
      Robert Shrimsley
      Matt Hancock’s fall will have lasting consequences

      The instance of a second leading lockdown advocate breaking the rules will have a permanent impact on UK government

      Ellie Foreman-Peck illustration of Robert Shrimsley column ‘Matt Hancock’s fall will have lasting consequences’
    • Monday, 28 June, 2021
      Coronavirus
      UK must ‘learn to live’ with Covid, says new health secretary

      Sajid Javid sticks to plan to return England to economic normality on July 19

      Sajid Javid in the House of Commons on Monday
    • Monday, 28 June, 2021
      UK Government
      Security sweeps of Whitehall offices ordered after Hancock CCTV leak

      Ministers, officials and parliament react to concern about what discussions might have been recorded

      Matt Hancock with aide Gina Coladangelo
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