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Resignation of UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock seized on to engineer further lurch to the right
Conservative government Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Matt Hancock resigned Saturday evening after admitting to breaking coronavirus rules over social distancing and close contact indoors.
He was replaced by former chancellor Sajid Javid, who left government in February 2020 following a conflict with Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s then adviser Dominic Cummings.
Hancock exited after the tabloid
Sun published images Friday taken from CCTV footage showing Hancock kissing Gina Coladangelo in his Whitehall office on May 6 this year. Hancock had been having an extramarital affair with Coladangelo the pair first met as students at Oxford university two decades ago. He had authorised guidance banning intimate contact with people outside their household until May 17.
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Tory victory in Hartlepool by-election signals death throes of UK Labour Party
The Labour Party suffered a rout in Thursday’s Hartlepool by-election, giving the Conservative Party the seat for the first time in the constituency’s 62-year history. Jill Mortimer, the Tory candidate, won 51.9 percent of the vote, versus Paul Williams’s 28.7 percent for Labour a massive 16 percent swing to the Tory Party compared to the last election in 2019.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson poses for photographers with Jill Mortimer, the winning Conservative Party candidate of the Hartlepool by-election, at Hartlepool Marina, in Hartlepool, north east England, Friday, May 7, 2021.
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