UK health secretary Matt Hancock resigns after flouting COVID rules by kissing aide
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Labour says Hancock should have been fired.
Former finance minister Javid to replace him.
LONDON: UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock resigned on Saturday after he was found flouting COVID-19 rules by kissing and embracing an aide in his office, enraging colleagues and the public.
In the latest scandal to rock a government that has overseen one of the highest official death tolls from the pandemic, Hancock wrote to Prime Minister Boris Johnson to resign, saying he had let people down.
An increasing number of his fellow Conservative lawmakers had privately called for him to go after
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