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Hands, face: the Matt Hancock guide to social distancing

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There’s only one story doing the rounds on SW1 WhatsApp chats this morning: the photographs in today’s Sun of the married health secretary in a clinch with a senior taxpayer-funded aide. 

Matt Hancock caused headlines last November after bringing lobbyist Gina Coladangelo – his friend from Oxford university – into government as a non-executive director for the department of health, despite there being no public record of the appointment. Now it seems his relationship with Coladangelo has again got him into trouble.

The Sun’s photographs are dated from 6 May, at a time when it was illegal to hug someone from outside another household as part of the ban on ‘private indoor meetings.’ Indoor

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