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Matt Hancock video leak will be investigated - Brandon Lewis
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The Department of Health is to look into how footage from Matt Hancock s office was leaked, Northern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis has said.
The video, which shows Mr Hancock breaking Covid rules by kissing a colleague, was passed to the Sun, and ultimately led to his resignation.
Speaking to the BBC, Mr Lewis said: We have to understand how that happened and how we deal with that.
The Sun says the images came from a concerned Whitehall whistleblower .
The paper s political editor Harry Cole told Radio 4 s PM programme the alleged whistleblower thought they deserved a wider audience .
Number of Brits falling ill with Covid every day more than DOUBLES in a week to nearly 12,000 - but top scientist says it s clear epidemic fuelled by Indian variant is only among the unvaccinated and people waiting for second jab
ZOE Covid study estimates 11,908 people across the UK are showing symptoms of the virus every day
Professor Tim Spector said spiralling cases are caused by the much more transmissible Indian variant
Scientists fear the mutant strain may be 60 per cent more transmissible than the once dominant Kent version
Prime Minister "not fit for office"; Hancock "should have been fired"; the government "failed"… as an example of excoriating employer feedback, Dominic Cummings’ evidence before MPs on Wednesday was certainly up there.