Which raises questions of itself.

Yes there is a genuine public interest, but the CCTV was apparently in his office.

There have to be security issues raised by that

The world has not yet produced sufficient brain bleach for anyone to view this.

It's reached the point they have to get the dead cats from Longleat.

I've seen it - he appears to be whispering into her mouth for some reason.

I'd sooner watch the video from The Ring.

At least now we know what he meant when he said he was 'straining every sinew'.

I always thought Boris Johnson had a strong anti-social streak in him.

It might be the key to the his popularity as he reflects back the Brit-trait of two fingers in the air. Yah boo shucks to you!

I wonder if it gets any ruder and there is more to come. They start stripping or something.

SEVEN current UK Cabinet ministers (including Hancock) have been found to have broken the law & each & everyone of them have remained in post.

I'm shocked.

So few!

People voted for change and now the country is run by criminals. Does it count as change or has it always been thus?

Sadly, for most of the time we are indeed governed by the same class and as ever high and low society always had a very nasty intersection.

At the moment the best one can say is none of the current cabinet members have (yet...) been convicted of crimes and imprisoned so we are doing better than the Thatcher and Major years!

I think he will then find that as with everything 'voters don't consider closed' it will be forgotten about as soon as something else comes along and completely irrelevant come election time when the Tories win again.

Apparently the people of England like being treated like this and want more of it.

No sex, please, we are British.

But Labour have some anti-Semites! But labour cut funding to the NHS for the last 12 years! Vaccination!!!!

Yes and by George we want to feel that whip some more!!

There is now an audio version as well.

Proceed with extreme caution:

Link

Okay, so She is from Oxford, married to some guy who might be able to get some government interest in his projects. wild speculation ahead...

She gets a job, her husband gets some cash, all they have to do is pretend she is attracted to Matt Hancock. Hancock is too stupid to realize that he is being used.

Wild speculation ceases here.

"Lovers" implies she did a bit more than "pretend" to be attracted to Hancock

This is Boris Johnson we are talking about, he probably doesn't think adultery is really a problem. After all he's done it multiple times and he made it to PM!

Well not the husband but her brother has NHS contracts:

https://news.sky.com/story/matt-hanc...racts-12341789

No, it could just be that she played the part with real commitment (an early episode of Miami Vice springs to mind)

Hancock has resigned.

My god what else did the paper have on him!?!?

Which 7?

Has he left to spend more time with someone else's family?

I read it on one of the news sites but it was a 'live news' feed and it has gone off the bottom now.
Three of them were Gavin Williamson, Matt Hancock and Michael Gove, they have been ruled by the High Court as breaking the law during the pandemic response.

Speculation: A lot of people owe him for the over priced contracts he put their way. He may think resigning makes any scrutiny go away so he can sit back and let payback roll in.

Sunday times

Matt Hancock faces an investigation after using a personal email account instead of an official address during the pandemic in a breach of government guidelines

Probably the straw that was going to break his back.

Confirmed - Sajid Javid is the new Health Secretary

According to an unconfirmed report ;)

I think that those were all judicial review cases. The executive being held to account by the courts in this way is really just part of the usual process of government, even if this particular government regards it as unacceptable judicial meddling. I’m not sure if a minister has ever had to resign because of losing a judicial review.

For Boris to back Hancock, announcing that he “considered the matter closed” a day before the pressure caused Hancock to jump shows Boris to be weak, of poor judgement & out-of-touch.

Jonathan Pie skewers Matt Hancock:

"**** you, you nasty, snivelling, useless, lying little ****. Your mistakes have cost lives and now your marriage, and your apologies are meaningless."

https://youtu.be/NsyQ2Q3QMAw

Things are slowly starting to suggest that…

Apparently Matt Hancock has left his wife and three children now.

All I can see is Alan Partridge in the Travel Tavern.

It's obvious. Covid was a dead cat to distract from Hancock's affair.

How long was Johnson sitting on the knowledge?

If he didn't know at the time - that raises questions why the PM was unaware of compromising film footage of a Cabinet minister. If he did know - that raises questions over his judgement.

Matt Hancock and Gina Coladangelo are probably holed up in a Travel Lodge right now. Within a fortnight, they will discover they are now utterly bored with each other, now that the thrill of a secret affair is no longer there, with grapplings across the photocopier, steamy glances over the boardroom table and canoodling at the office door; and everybody knows about it, so is no longer thrilling. She will return to Oliver and he will seeing the kids at weekends with Martha making it as difficult as possible. What a swine, leaving that gorgeous dachsy.

I guess the question is whether the current crop are less law-breaky or whether there simply is no desire to prosecute. I fear it's the latter. :(

His what?

The department of health is to look into how footage from Matt Hancock's office was leaked, Northern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis has said.

Asked about the leak on the BBC's Andrew Marr programme, Mr Lewis said: "The Department of Health will be investigating quite rightly to understand how this was able to happened."
"We have got to to concerned about the fact that someone was able to secure a recording from inside a government building," he added.
Replying to a question about the possibility of a general review into security cameras across government buildings, Mr Lewis said he was "sure that is something the team will be looking at".
"I take the view that everything you are saying or putting in writing will be reported somewhere."

Speaking on the same programme, Jeremy Hunt - Mr Hancock's predecessor as health secretary and now chairman of the Health and Social Care Select Committee - said there "absolutely" needed to be a review of security across Whitehall.
"It is completely unacceptable from a security point of view that minsters are big filmed from inside their own offices without their knowledge."
Asked if the leak was a breach of the Official Secrets Act and whether the police should be involved, Mr Hunt said "possibly" but added that whistleblowers should be protected.

Speaking to Sky News, former Labour cabinet minister Alan Johnson said: "I could never understand why there was a camera in the secretary of state's office.
"There was never a camera in my office when I was health secretary or in any of the other five cabinet positions."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-57628523