The Health Secretary has been allegedly pictured in an intimate clinch with one of his aides during the coronavirus pandemic.
Matt Hancock, 42, has been accused of having an affair after he was seen kissing Gina Coladangelo, 43, at the Department of Health’s headquarters in London, at some point during the Covid-19 pandemic, The Mirror reported.
It’s been claimed, by a whistleblower, that the politician has been cheating on his wife Martha Hoyer Millar, who he has been married to for 15 years.
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Hancock hired Ms Coladangelo - whose husband is the founder of Oliver Bonas - last year, but had first met her while he studied at Oxford University in the early 2000s, it is understood.
The Health Secretary has not yet commented on the matter.
But a friend told The Mirror that Hancock had “no comment” on personal matters and added that “no rules” had been broken.
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The Mirror has also contacted the Department of Health and Social Care for comment on the explosive allegations.
Meanwhile, a Whitehall source told The Sun Hancock's behaviour "in the middle of a pandemic with an adviser and friend he used public money to hire” is shocking.
The embattled Health Secretary was already under severe pressure after damning evidence from former Number 10 spin doctor Dominic Cummings revealed that Boris Johnson branded Mr Hancock "totally f***ing useless" during the early stages of Covid last year.
The Health Secretary was also accused of lying about PPE provisions, failing care homes and overseeing the extraordinarily costly and failing Test and Trace system.
Only this week, the Queen referred to him as "poor man" in a clip released from her first in-person audience with Mr Johnson in 15 months.
The Sun has shared images of Mr Hancock and his aide appearing to passionately kiss, which were said to have been taken just after 3pm on May 6.
According to a whistleblower, the pair have 'regularly' been caught in clinches together.
The source was reported to have said: “They have tried to keep it a secret but everyone knows what goes on inside a building like that.
“I’m just amazed he was so brazen about it as he was the Secretary of State.
"It has also shocked people because he put her in such an important, publicly-funded role and this is what they get up to in office hours when everyone else is working hard.”
Rumours are said to have been circulating within the department - with colleagues openly discussing it via WhatsApp.
The explosive claims come just days after it emerged that Mr Johnson branded Mr Hancock "totally f***ing useless" during the early stages of the pandemic last year.
The PM's ex-aide Mr Cummings said the Health Secretary should have been sacked for lies and fatal failings over PPE, testing and care homes.
He also released text exchanges with the Prime Minister, in which he described Mr Hancock as "totally f***g useless", and mulled over replacing him with Michael Gove.
Mr Hancock was also accused of insulting bereaved families as he insisted there was never a national shortage of PPE and tried to shift the blame for the crisis onto others.
