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Matt Hancock s switch to white shirts is the best decision he s made lately
The disgraced former Health Secretary is rumoured to have taken style advice from the aide with whom he was caught on CCTV
Matt Hancock is assisted with his wardrobe by Gina Coladangelo back in May
Credit: Tom Nicholson/Reuters
Of all the befuddling detail surrounding Gina Coladangelo’s former role as a non-executive director at the Department of Health, perhaps the least beguiling is that the high-flying Oxford graduate is said to have offered sartorial advice to the former Secretary of State for Health, Matt Hancock.
According to a friend (and who doesn’t require the heartfelt feedback of friends when one’s personal and professional life has been upended by an errant security camera?), Ms Coladangelo helped “sharpen up” the Heath Secretary’s image by imparting the timeless suggestion that he stick to white shirts with his work uniform of blameless (if uninteresting) blue suits and equally u
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