Resignation of UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock seized on to engineer further lurch to the right
Conservative government Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Matt Hancock resigned Saturday evening after admitting to breaking coronavirus rules over social distancing and close contact indoors.
He was replaced by former chancellor Sajid Javid, who left government in February 2020 following a conflict with Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s then adviser Dominic Cummings.
Hancock exited after the tabloid
Sun published images Friday taken from CCTV footage showing Hancock kissing Gina Coladangelo in his Whitehall office on May 6 this year. Hancock had been having an extramarital affair with Coladangelo the pair first met as students at Oxford university two decades ago. He had authorised guidance banning intimate contact with people outside their household until May 17.
How do Sir Keir Starmer and Anas Sarwar revive Labour s fortunes north and south of the Border? MICHAEL Settle asserts in his Analysis article ( Time has come for Labour to step up and reinvent itself , The Herald, May 14) that Labour has to reinvent itself. I would dispute the implication that the Labour Party has to conjure up some magic formula of empty rhetoric to try to fool voters into giving their votes to Labour. The Tories did it with Brexit and the nationalists with independence, both with potentially disastrous results. Labour policies must concentrate on social justice. Health, housing, education and employment are the fundamentals that need addressed in the UK and particularly in Scotland. Young people especially are increasingly affected by lack of affordable housing, disrupted education and uncertain career opportunities. Labour couldn’t go far wrong with advocating a return to council house building and well-funded vocational training.
Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon is forecast to miss out on the overall majority she hoped for in parliamentary elections but the broader pro-independence movement will still hold power, according to the BBC’s forecasts.