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Matt Hancock deserved to lose his job for a workplace affair after his shabby treatment of a Covid expert caught in a similar situation last year, a former minister said today.
Alan Johnson, an ex-home secretary for Labour, said Mr Hancock s resignation was justified comeback for the way he treated Professor Neil Ferguson last year.
Prof Ferguson, an epidemiologist at Imperial College London, stood down from Sage last May after it was revealed that his married girlfriend Antonia Staats had been visiting him at home.
It sparked accusations he had catastrophically undermined the government s position by flouting the strict coronavirus social distancing rules he helped draw up to have secret trysts.
Shadow Housing Secretary Lucy Powell said that Labour MP Fleur Anderson had referred Mr Hancock to the Metropolitan Police to find out if any lockdown laws had been broken.
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Three Tory MPs call for cheating Matt Hancock to quit in growing backbench rebellion after ally who was due to defend him failed to turn up for interview and protesters demand his ARREST - while toe-curling 60-second video of office kiss emerges
Matt Hancock, 42, is accused of having an affair with lobbyist Gina Coladangelo, wife of Oliver Bonas founder
Duncan Baker became the first Conservative MP to go against the Prime Minister who backed Mr Hancock
Mr Baker, MP for North Norfolk, said the Health Secretary has fallen short of appropriate morals and ethics
Now, former Work and Pensions Secretary and MP for Tatton Esther McVey urged Hancock to step down too