The Sun has an old fashioned ‘minister-caught-having-an-affair’ scoop on its front page today – and the politician in the frame is Health Secretary Matt Hancock.
He cheated on his wife with Gina Coladangelo, 43, who he hired last year with taxpayers’ money, as Covid gripped Britain.
Mr Hancock, 42, and millionaire lobbyist Gina were caught on camera in a steamy clinch at his Whitehall office.
Whistleblowers revealed the Health Secretary had been spotted cheating on his wife of 15 years with married Ms Coladangelo.
He was seen kissing her at the Department of Health’s London HQ during office hours last month as the mutant strain began spreading.
A Whitehall whistleblower told The Sun it was “shocking that Mr Hancock was having an affair in the middle of a pandemic with an adviser and friend he used public money to hire”.
Last night, a friend of the Health Secretary said: “He has no comment on personal matters. No rules have been broken.”
Mr Hancock was pictured embracing his aide. The image was from just after 3pm on May 6 — as the rest of Westminster was engrossed by the local elections.
He is seen in his distinctive ninth-floor office inside the sprawling Department of Health building, which is a stone’s throw from the Houses of Parliament.
During the pandemic, the office has provided the backdrop to his Zoom appearances on TV — including the Andrew Marr Show.
Mr Hancock is seen checking the corridor is clear before closing the door and then leaning on it to ensure he cannot be disturbed.
Ms Coladangelo then walks towards him and the pair begin their passionate embrace.
According to a whistleblower, who used to work at the department, the pair have regularly been caught in clinches together.
The source 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.”
Worth reading in full.
On the face of it, this actually strengthens Hancock’s position – already pretty strong after Dominic Cummings’ singled him out for criticism. After all, Boris can hardly sack a Cabinet minister for having an affair without looking like a complete hypocrite. Nevertheless, there are some questions that Hancock will have to answer.
- Was the Health Secretary having an affair with Gina Coladangelo before she became a paid, non-executive director at the DHSS?
- Were the correct procedures followed before she was hired? Non-exec positions at Government departments aren’t usually advertised and Hancock wouldn’t be the first Secretary of State to appoint a crony to the board of his department. But they do have to be properly vetted – and interviewed – by the Civil Service. Did that happen in this case?
I expect the answer to the second question is probably “yes”, so Hancock’s fate will turn on the answer to the first. If the affair predated the job, that doesn’t look good. It feeds into the “One rule for them” theme which could end up being a problem for the Government. As a regular contributor to Lockdown Sceptics put it to me in an email this morning:
It looks to me that this might be another case of one rule for you and another for me. Seems suspicious that MH’s mistress was hired as an aide going into lockdown last year, while hundreds of thousands of other people were separated from their lovers for months on end. Also note that Hancock and mistress are seen social distancing in public and embracing in private.
Stop Press: MailOnline has a good selection of Hancock memes here.
Stop Press 2: Hancock condemned Neil Ferguson for breaking lockdown rules to see his lover last year.
Stop Press 3: Roberto Coladangelo, Gina Coladangelo’s brother, is an executive at a healthcare company that has won a string of NHS contracts. Sky News has more.
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Good article. Everything about ‘taking the knee’ feels wrong to me. The most obvious problem is that kneeling denotes inferiority. Are we saying that to put right centuries of racial exceptionalism we are going to agree that white people are inferior now? Fighting bad racism with good racism seems to be the zeitgeist. Why is everyone so accepting of this? No human should ever kneel before any other human. It’s not the Middle Ages FFS!
Agree 100%.
Can’t understand this very obvious and pathetic virtue signalling. Well played to the Millwall fans who were first to boo this, (against QPR I think), leading to limited amounts of booing elsewhere.
Of course your BBC and media elites immediately jumped on the booing as “evidence” that some football fans are racists, rather than the more obvious conclusion that these fans do not appreciate being asked to participate/conform with something they can clearly see as ungenuine “box ticking”.
The people who run/administer/play football need to get a grip on all this woke shit…I,m looking mostly at you Jurgen Klopp and Gareth Southgate.
“The people who run/administer/play football need to get a grip on all this woke shit…”
It’s the same in cricket. Went to the recent Lords Test they were pumping out all this racism and diversity woke nonsense all very annoying and patronising. Thank God they didn’t “take the knee” think I would have walked at that stage. Assume it’s the same with Rugby, they all seem to be falling over themselves to accommodate this shite.
Exactly, CG. In March 2020 the world rushed headlong into the New Dark Age. A technocratic totalitarianism. It’s just that so few of us have recognised it for what it is…
Taking the knee is a luxury belief – you can show how “caring” you are, whilst not having to actually DO ANYTHING.
The Middle Ages wouldn’t like us either!
At least they weren’t destroying civilisation back then.
They boo because they recognise it for what it is – virtue signalling and compliance with the “latest thing” for fear of standing out and being denounced.
It’s all so effing false and cowardly. People who take the knee are nothing more than functionaries, unwittingly participating in the destruction of everything of value to a free society.
Useful idiots.
Gates’s Goons
And this silly little gesture will stop when exactly?
When racism, real or imagined, ends? When the terrible sins of generations past, real or imagined, have been sufficiently atoned for?
So basically never.
Which really makes it a quasi-religious ritual designed to remind everyone of their natural racist tendencies. It’s quite clever really. They’ve hijacked the most popular sport in the world and built into it a religious ritual of the new woke ideology.
I wonder how many of these football players realise they’ve been co-opted for a new religion.
Racism isn’t dead, but it is on life support – kept alive by politicians, race hustlers and those who get a sense of superiority by denouncing others as ‘racists’.
Thomas Sowell
They all take the knee for exactly the same reason they all wore the goddamn face nappies.
And got the gene therapy treatment and complied zealously with Lockdowns and on and on it goes. Pathetic really pathetic.
It will stop once we’ve overcome Keep the Americans in, the Russians out and the Germans down, the post-war European strategy of post-imperial Britain. Keeping the Americans in
only works when the so-called western states all become second-rate Little Americas or larger Puerto-Ricos as the so-called American left won’t even accept autonomous allies, let alone souvereign ones. IMO, this price is to high for the convenience of outsourcing much of The Military to the USA. In order to avoid losing its soul, Europe needs to be restored as set of independent actors, Russia and Germany being among them, and the USA reduced to just another foreign power (we might be allied with or not or might be at war with or not, depending on what makes the most sense in any given situation).
And this silly system of international organizations for everything, UN, WHO, UNESCO, FAO, WBG etc needs to be dismantled.
I don’t think that I’ll live to experience this, but We shall see.
Just play the game, I deplore the politicisation of everything these days. I would happily boo the England team for these gestures but instead I just don’t watch anymore.
Until 1918, a much larger Hungary was part of the empire of Austria-Hungary containing a great many Slavs who were exactly as oppressed as non-English British subjects in British colonies. These included the Czechs who were gifted a state of their own by the Entente powers who also ruled over the Slovaks. After the second world war, this entirely artifical construct dominated by a Czech majority was forcibly restored. Slovakia finally managed to become independent in 1993. One should also really mention the Czechs pogrom of the German minority forced into their state in 1918 and forced back into it in 1945, eg, burning them alive in Prague, but since the author is politically left, he probably considers this perfecly ok. After all, there are Germans and people and the former must not be confused with the latter.
In other words, these people from far away countries we know little of are exactly as guilty of historic racism as the author claims the Brits are. Sorry, no saints on this planet.
NB: This is not supposed to be a defense of nonsensical BLM rituals.
“England’s anti-racism stance.”? Utter bunkum, it’s the modern way, do nothing in reality but be seen to make some empty gesture…I’m with the Hungarian kids.
Does that mean if we all do it racism will disappear……? Who knew?
It’s not even English. This was invented in the USA and presumably, at least to some degree, to annoy Donald Trump (by signalling contempt for the flag of the USA, originally).
I’m British and I object to the patronising educational intent of this virtue-signalling as well.
Which virtue, by the way? Professional football players usually make a lot of money with advertising contracts. And this kind of behaviour is pretty much mandated by the people paying for these. Hence, it really means I’m kneeling down in public because my paymasters demand it. Ritual prostation of the parvenu millionaires in front of the billionaires to ensure that the money keeps flowing. A ridiculous and disgusting spectacle.
Paymasters being Blackrock, Bloomberg who are funding the whole WEF, WHO, UN & WTO project….
There can be few more risible actions than the minutes silence for Prince Phillip, a man who gave his life to this nation and his duty to support The Queen for 80 years, followed swiftly by taking the knee for a career criminal who died 4000 miles away full of drugs that would have killed him regardless of what the police officer did.
The attitude is the same as the Victorian Missionaries who were despatched to take the word of God to ‘the darkies’ and sometimes ended up as a decent main course. It is imperialism. It is borne from misplaced superiority, but more than anything it is a stunning burst of narcissism which does nothing to ‘bring an end’ to racism even if it were possible. The whole BLM thing has set us back 30 years.
Maybe the English team should stop teasing and just drop their shorts and hold their ankles.
Taking the knee, started in the USA by Colin whatshisname. Theatre, clown show. Perhaps the starving children around the world might have as much attention from the legacy press than these overpaid young men.
Good on you Hungary and the Hungarian people don’t take this patronising woke shite.
Annoyed by my club West Bromwich Albion FC virtue signalling at EVERY game now for 2 years. WW1 & WW2 heroes get just one minute a season. The real heroes who made the ultimate sacrifice for our freedoms. Not George Floyd and the Marxist opportunists. I turn my back on them at every game. GET WOKE GO BROKE.
Astonishing that the UK football authorities allow the players to wear the Burn-Loot-Murder armbands in glorification of a vicious street thug who threatened to shoot a pregnant woman in the stomach to extort money to buy drugs and died because he swallowed his stash when arrested by the police but banned British fans from wearing poppies…