Matt Hancock's girlfriend Gina Coladangelo has reportedly sold her family home to Gordon Ramsay for a whopping £7.5million.
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Matt Hancock expressed concern that a flagship Rishi Sunak policy was contributing to the spread of Covid-19 as the latest set of leaked messages reveal how the pair were at odds during the pandemic.
The details emerged in the latest tranche of leaked messages from the former health secretary, published by the Daily Telegraph.
The messages show Mr Hancock attempting to get the support of Cabinet Secretary Simon Case in challenging the stance of the then-Chancellor and others over certain pandemic-era rules, with the top civil servant – who is required to be politically neutral – complaining about “pure Conservative ideology” on the part of one senior minister.
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In one message, Mr Hancock also accuses Mr Sunak of trying to “show ankle” to the “hard right” over his Covid-19 stance.
They also reveal Mr Hancock had serious concerns about the Treasury’s Eat Out to Help Out scheme designed to support restaurants, dubbing it the “eat out to help the virus get about”.
One exchange, from June 2020, came as the Government considered how to relax restrictions. The messages show Mr Hancock wanted cafes and restaurants to keep a register of customers’ details for NHS Test and Trace, urging that guidance would read “should” as opposed to “can”.
The latter phrasing, according to the messages, was preferred by then-business secretary Sir Alok Sharma.
“The language on customer logs has just gone from ‘should’ to ‘can’. Grateful if you can fix – we can’t reverse this at the last minute!” Mr Hancock said.
Mr Case replied: “Alok blocking ‘should’. Will need to fix after this meeting.”
Later, he said: “If Alok mad enough to raise it, PM will probably be clear again.”
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Matt Hancock's girlfriend Gina Coladangelo has reportedly sold her family home to Gordon Ramsay for a whopping £7.5million.
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Matt Hancock and officials show how the then health secretary scrambled to save his career after footage emerged of his embrace with aide Gina Coladangelo. They are among the latest set of WhatsApp correspondence to emerge from the leak of more than 100,000 messages published by the Daily Telegraph. The latest tranche centre on the hours after Mr Hancock discovered that leaked footage, showing him breaching social distancing rules, would appear on the front page of the Sun in June 2021.
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