but the public interest to me was so overwhelming not just the hypocrisy of the social distancing, but the massive question it threw up was, was he in a relationship with this woman when he hired her? and he still hasn t really answered that question publicly. he s only admitted to the social distancing breach. and i think we re still all waiting to hearfrom him on that one. yeah, i mean, the public interest point you make there, very compelling. but two marriages are now in trouble, children are involved. would you have run the story involving the health secretary if there was no pandemic? that s an interesting question. i think we probably would, because i would be looking at the issue around when he hired her, we d have to be clear on that, i guess. and, as for the issue of the families, we went to great lengths none of the children were named in the story. after day one of the story, i took our photographers and reporters off that home address. you ll find other papers that sti
papers that still carried on running pictures, i chose not to, of the wife. the public interest in the story was so overwhelming that i think we ve handled it really well. emily, if i can turn to you, after the story broke, you ran a front page in the standard featuring a very large picture of mr hancock s wife, martha. why did you decide to focus on that side of the story? because she was going to take the direct hit from the revelations. our headline was very much about what he would be underfire for, and, following very much what victoria said, this was clearly public interest. we also remain. we think big questions remain was he in a relationship already when he hired her? and we debated actually for an incredibly long time,