Matt Hancock has been spotted jumping around in a park, while he faces fury over pay for NHS heroes.
The Health Secretary was photographed exercising in a London park this morning.
He was seen doing press-ups on the grass, fixing the photographer with a steely glare and a pained expression on his face.
And for some reason the Tory minister was seen jumping over a short fence from the grass to a nearby path.
While the minister was jumping in the air, he was being accused of kicking NHS heroes in the teeth.
Health service unions denounced the proposed 1% pay award for NHS workers award as a "kick in the teeth" for staff who had given "absolutely everything" over the past year to keep the public safe.
Mr Hancock has yet to speak publicly about the measly recommendation, which was sneaked out in a Department of Health document last night.
But Mental Health minister Nadine Dorries this morning defended the 1% rise - which is expected to be a real terms pay cut after inflation - as “what we can afford.”
Told the measly increase indicated nurses were a low priority for the government, Ms Dorries said: “It's a statement of what we think we can afford because we want to acknowledge nurses and doctors and healthcare workers.
“All other public sector workers are facing a pay freeze, having no increase whatsoever.
“We didn't think that was the right thing to do for the healthcare sector given what they've been through for the past year, and so that is why we've decided they have to have something, and we've recommended the 1%, which is what we can afford.
Mr Hancock's energetic public display followed a similar sighting of Boris Johnson going for a central London run with his £165 an hour celebrity personal trainer, Harry Jameson.
Yesterday Mr Johnson boasted of his new diet and giving up "late-night cheese" after he lost a stone in weight.
The Tory leader spoke of his ongoing weight battle today after experts highlighted links between obesity and coronavirus deaths.
The Prime Minister, 56, embarked on a strict exercise regime after nearly dying from Covid-19 last spring.
In a jerky 81-second video posted on Twitter, apparently self-filmed as he walked through No10 Downing Street the once-porky Premier said: “I've been doing a lot, in fact, everything I can, to lose weight and to feel fitter and healthier.
"What I've been doing is I've been eating less carbs, avoiding chocolate, no more late-night cheese – all that kind of thing.
"I've been getting up early to go for runs and the result is I actually have lost some weight – quite a lot by my standards – and I feel much more energetic, I feel full of beans, and I thoroughly recommend it."
