Flowers have been delivered to Matt Hancock's wife Martha this morning as he stays away following reports of an affair with one of his aides.
The pink peonies in a glass vase were placed on the front doorstep of the house the Health Secretary shares with his wife in London.
A florist was seen delivering the flowers just after 10am today.
Mr Hancock is believed to be staying at their house in Suffolk at the moment while Mrs Hancock has remained at the home in the capital with their children.
The Health Secretary's wife was seen leaving the house early this morning for a dog walk and was pictured having a chat with a woman.
A video of Mr Hancock in an embrace with aide Gina Coladangelo was published yesterday night, after The Sun first reported he was having an extramarital affair.
Stills from the CCTV clip earlier in the day prompted Labour to deem the Health Secretary's position "hopelessly untenable".
There have also been questions about Mrs Coladangelo's appointment to her role in the Department of Health and Social Care in the first place.
In a statement, Mr Hancock said: "I accept that I breached the social distancing guidance in these circumstances, I have let people down and am very sorry.
"I remain focused on working to get the country out of this pandemic, and would be grateful for privacy for my family on this personal matter."
A Downing Street spokesman said Boris Johnson had accepted Mr Hancock's apology and "considers the matter closed".
Grieving families said Mr Hancock keeping his job was a “slap in the face” for people who could not hug loved ones at funerals and lost family members during lockdown.
The Metropolitan Police said it was not investigating any offences, which allegedly took place last month, because "as a matter of course the MPS is not investigating Covid related issues retrospectively".
Human rights barrister Adam Wagner told BBC News: "I am pretty clear, although you never know for sure, that there was a breach of the regulations, on the basis that at the time it was illegal to have any gathering of more than one person anywhere indoors unless an exception applied.
"The only one that could reasonably be said to apply or possibly said to apply would be that this was reasonably necessary for work purposes.
"But based on what we know and what we can see in the images, it doesn't seem that that was reasonably necessary for work purposes."
Mrs Coladangelo, who is married to the founder of the retailer Oliver Bonas, Oliver Tress, is a friend of Mr Hancock's from their days together at Oxford University and was appointed to the DHSC last year.
She was initially taken on as an unpaid adviser on a six-month contract in March 2020, before being appointed as a non-executive director at the department.
Mrs Coladangelo, 43, was pictured piling her £70,000 Audi Q7's boot high with bags before driving off from the £3.6million home she shares with her husband hours after learning the affair was about to be exposed.
Oliver, 54, was also snapped by The Sun speaking to Ms Colandangelo before she left the property.
