Who is Boy George to look down on Matt Hancock?

Matt Hancock’s ongoing humiliation in the I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here! jungle is bad news for lots of people, not least his long-suffering family and his mortally embarrassed children. His constituents in West Suffolk, who can watch their right honourable representative eat kangaroo penis (but probably not expect a reply to their letters), are also missing out. Hancock’s decision to head Down Under has also put paid to his dreams of a return to the cabinet. But there is one winner in all this: Boy George.

Hancock’s appearance on the ITV show has allowed his fellow jungle celebrities to take a moral high ground. None of us are perfect, of course. Few of us are without things to be rightly guilty about. But then, fewer still of us have chained a man to a radiator and been sentenced to 15 months for false imprisonment. For all of Hancock’s sins – and there are many – he would struggle to top that.