Portrait of the week: Hancock out, Javid in and MoD papers found at a bus stop

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A lively game of hunt the issue followed the resignation of Matt Hancock as Secretary of State for Health after the Sun published a photograph of him kissing an aide, Gina Coladangelo, in May, in contravention of the law at the time on meeting indoors. The Prime Minister had tried to declare the matter ‘closed’ when Mr Hancock apologised, but some Tory MPs and many citizens were scandalised that the man in whose name coronavirus restrictions were made law (as statutory instruments) should exempt himself from their strictures. Mr and Mrs Hancock parted company. Questions were raised over how the security camera images reached the Sun, and how Ms Coladangelo had come to be appointed a non-executive director of the Department of Health. Sajid Javid, who had resigned in March 2020 after 204 days as Chancellor of the Exchequer in a power tussle with Dominic Cummings, was appointed health secretary.