why i ve got to resign. matt hancock hoped to ride out the storm, a cabinet minister with big ambition, who had the backing of the prime minister. number 10 considered this matter closed and it was mr hancock who decided to step down. to be frank, it shouldn t have come to this. borisjohnson should have shown the guts, the spine, the awareness to have sacked him on friday. you cannot have a health secretary who designs the covid rules, so blatantly breaking the rules in the way he did. neverfarfrom a podium, but hancock wrote rules the rest of us were told to follow. for some tory mps, mr hancock s credibility was shot. what has been clear over the last 2a hours is that, for a sizeable minority or even majority of the public, they no longer had confidence in matt hancock. it wasn t the affair, it was the apparent hypocrisy of being someone who had
stick by them, and that is why i ve got to resign. matt hancock had hoped to ride out the storm, a cabinet minister with big ambition who had the backing of the prime minister. number 10 considered this matter closed and it was mr hancock who decided to step down. to be frank, it shouldn t have come to this. borisjohnson should have shown the guts, the spine, the awareness to have sacked him on friday. you cannot have a health secretary who designs the covid rules so blatantly breaking the rules in the way he did. neverfarfrom a podium, matt hancock wrote rules the rest of us were told to follow. for some tory mps, mr hancock s credibility was shot. what s been clear over the last 2a hours is that, for a sizeable minority or even majority of the public, they no longer had confidence in matt hancock. it wasn t the affair, it was the apparent hypocrisy
hours is that for a sizeable minority, or even a majority of the public, they no longer had confidence in matt hancock. it wasn t the affair, it was the apparent hypocrisy of being someone who d made the rules but then broke their own rules. there was another big problem. last september, gina coladangelo was appointed to the board that oversees the department of health on a taxpayer funded salary. the government said the appointment rules were followed, but labour demanded an investigation. mrs coladangelo stepped down from her role. it wasn t the first time matt hancock had been under pressure in recent weeks. the prime minister s former aide dominic cummings ripped into mr hancock s performance during the pandemic. the secretary of state for health should have been fired for at least 15, 20 things including lying to everybody. ..later releasing whatsapp messages that showed boris johnson calling the health secretary totally hopeless . recently, the queen
ambition, who had the backing of the prime minister. number 10 considered this matter closed and it was mr hancock who decided to step down. what has been clear over the last 2a hours is that a sizeable minority or even majority of the public no longer had confidence in matt hancock. it wasn t the affair, it was the apparent hypocrisy of being someone who made the rules but then broke their own rules. there was another big problem. last september, gina coladangelo was appointed to the board that oversees the department of health on a taxpayer funded salary. the government said the appointment rules were followed, but labour demanded an investigation. mrs coladangelo stepped down from her role. it wasn t the first time matt hancock had been under pressure in recent weeks. the prime minister s former aide dominic cummings ripped into mr hancock s performance during the pandemic. the secretary of state for health should have been fired for at least 15 20 things,
to ride out the storm, a cabinet minister with big ambition, who had the backing of the prime minister. number 10 considered this matter closed and it was mr hancock who decided to step down. to be frank, it shouldn t have come to this. borisjohnson should have shown the guts, the spine, the awareness to have sacked him on friday. you cannot have a health secretary who designs the covid rules, so blatantly breaking the rules in the way he did. neverfarfrom a podium, matt hancock wrote rules the rest of us were told to follow. for some tory mps, mr hancock s credibility was shot. what has been clear over the last 2a hours is that, for a sizeable minority or even majority of the public, they no longer had confidence in matt hancock. it wasn t the affair, it was the apparent hypocrisy of being someone who had made the rules