Matt Hancock’s Kissing Scandal Threatens to Hurt Boris Johnson in Key Week
- Health secretary quit over kiss that broke Covid rules
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Matt Hancock and aide Gina Coladangelo depart 10 Downing Street in May 2020.
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson is trying to move on from the embarrassing resignation of his health secretary Matt Hancock but the scandal might still cause him serious trouble in a key week for U.K.’s Conservative government.
The premier acted quickly to appoint former finance minister Sajid Javid as a replacement for Hancock, who quit Saturday after he was caught kissing his aide at work in breach of the government’s own pandemic rules.