Matt Hancock Admits Affair and Policy Failures at Covid Inquiry

During the Covid inquiry, Matt Hancock acknowledged his affair with aide Gina Coladangelo, admitting that his actions had undermined public trust. He emphasized the importance of rule-makers abiding by the rules they set, and resigned from his role as a health secretary to take accountability for his failure to do so. Defending his decision to release hospital patients into care homes without testing for Covid-19, Hancock argued that it was a logical and justifiable choice, and stated that no alternative solution had been presented to him that he believed would have resulted in more lives saved. He also claimed that if his approach had been followed, the first lockdown would have been implemented three weeks earlier, potentially saving a large percentage of those who died in the first wave of the pandemic.