MATT Hancock's wife had no idea about his affair with Gina Coladangelo until he told her it was "serious", it is claimed.
The ex Health Secretary only told his wife about his relationship with Coladangelo, 43, the night before The Sun's bombshell world exclusive exposing his affair.
According to The Sunday Times, she had no idea he'd been having an affair until he broke the news and announced that their marriage was over.
It comes as Coladangelo is to step down from her £15k position on the board of the Department for Health and Social Care following Hancock's resignation.
Hancock was seen kissing her in video footage at the Department of Health’s London HQ during office hours last month as the mutant strain began spreading.
Read our Matt Hancock blog below for the latest news and updates…
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IS MATT HANCOCK STILL AN MP (CONTINUED)?
Other than dying or going to prison for more than a year, the only way for an MP to leave office mid-term is if they are booted out by their constituents.
Under a law passed in 2015 constituents have a right to trigger a recall vote if their MP has been sentenced to a less than a year in prison or have been found guilty of serious wrongdoing by the courts or by parliament.
The recall vote is triggered if 10 per cent of eligible voters in the constituency sign a petition within a six-week period. If that is successful it triggers a by-election – but the MP is still allowed to run again.
The law has been used successfully to remove Labour's Fiona Onasanya andthe Conservative's Chris Davies.
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IS MATT HANCOCK STILL AN MP?
While Matt Hancock resigned as Health Secretary on June 26, 2021, he remains as the MP for West Suffolk.
He became an MP in May 2010 with a majority of 23,194 replacing Richard Strong in the position.
MPs can resign – or be sacked – from the Cabinet with a letter to the Prime Minister but they cannot technically resign as MPs due to law passed forbidding it in 1624.
As they are supposed to only stand down at the next election, MPs who want to leave office during a parliamentary term must accept one of two powerless, unpaid crown appointments called Steward and Bailiff of the Chiltern Hundreds or Steward and Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead.
The current Steward and Bailiff of the Chiltern Hundreds is Tracy Brabin who stood down after winning the West Yorkshire mayoral race in May – triggering the Batley and Spen by-election.
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GINA COLADANGELO TO LEAVE HEALTH DEPARTMENT
Gina Coladangelo is to leave the Department of Health after her affair with Matt Hancock was revealed.
The Sun’s world-exclusive images of former Health Secretary Hancock in a passionate clinch with 43-year-old aide Coladangelo led him to announce he was stepping down.
Hancock had appointed Coladangelo as a non-executive director at the department in September, meaning that she was a member of the board that oversees the department.
In November it emerged he had quietly given her a job as an adviser before handing her a £15,000-a-year role in his department.
The pair became friends at Oxford and have worked closely ever since, including on his short lived attempt to become Tory leader in 2019.
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BROTHER OF MATT HANCOCK’S AIDE GINA IS TOP EXECUTIVE OF HEALTHCARE COMPANY AWARDED WITH NHS CONTRACTS
The brother of Matt Hancock’s mistress is an executive of a private healthcare company which has been awarded a series of NHS contracts.
The Health Secretary was revealed to be having an affair with his aide Gina Coladangelo, after they were caught on camera snogging on May 6.
Roberto Coladangelo, Gina’s brother, works at the Partnering Health Limited (PHL Group) which specialises in the provision of urgent and primary care services.
According to Sky News pals of Mr Coladangelo confirmed the relationship between Gina and him, as well as social media profiles.
No friends have been willing to publicly confirm or deny that the pair are siblings, and Mr Coladangelo has not responded to requests for comment.
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KISSING DOOR
During the pandemic, the office has provided the backdrop to his Zoom appearances on TV — including the Andrew Marr Show.
Mr Hancock is seen checking the corridor is clear before closing the door and then leaning on it to ensure he cannot be disturbed.
Ms Coladangelo then walks towards him and the pair begin their passionate embrace.
According to a whistleblower, who used to work at the department, the pair have regularly been caught in clinches together.
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POLICE WILL NOT INVESTIGATE HANCOCK
Police say retrospective investigation into UK Health Secretary Hancock’s coronavirus breach will not be pursued.
Met police, asked about Matt Hancock’s alleged Covid breach, says it will not investigate retrospectively: “We will focus on those (breaches) that are live, or where police action can enable a change to behaviour that is posing a current public health risk”
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JAVID'S UP
Former Chancellor Sajid Javid has said he is "honoured" to replace Matt Hancock as Health Secretary after the MP quit in disgrace over an affair with his aide.
The highly-experienced politician and ex Home Secretary has been described as a "ready made" minister as Boris Johnson's government battles the pandemic.
Mr Javid tweeted on Saturday: "Honoured to have been asked to serve as Secretary of State for Health and Social Care at this critical time.
"I look forward to contributing to our fight against the pandemic, and serving my country from the Cabinet once again."
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THE SUN SAYS: HANCOCK ADDED STUPIDITY TO RANK HYPOCRISY
By brazenly trying to cling to his job, Matt Hancock added stupidity to a charge sheet that already included rank hypocrisy, glaring conflicts of interest and a possible criminal breach of his own lockdown laws.
Voters will put up with flaws in politicians’ private lives — but they will not tolerate a Health Secretary who solemnly tells the public to do one thing, while contemptuously flouting the Covid rules himself.
That he couldn’t see this only made an appalling situation even worse and inflicted further damage to the reputation of himself and the Government.
But the Prime Minister cannot escape criticism either for allowing Mr Hancock to stay in office for 36 deeply unedifying hours after the Sun exposed his affair with aide Gina Coladangelo.
His declaration on Friday that Mr Hancock’s antics were a private affair and the matter was “closed” was a serious lapse of judgment
It cost him public goodwill and enraged Tory MPs, who were besieged by complaints from furious constituents.
Read more here.
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FRIEND REQUEST
Matt Hancock’s wife Martha thought their marriage was “happy and stable” and was even Facebook friends with her husband’s lover, it emerged last night.
The disgraced former Health Secretary resigned on Saturday after The Sun revealed his affair with aide Gina Coladangelo.
Martha had no idea that her husband of 15 years was having an affair until he broke the news on Thursday night and announced their marriage was over.
Family friends told the Daily Mail that the revelation had come as a shock to Martha, who believed the marriage was “happy and stable” and had no suspicions over Coladangelo.
Like her husband, she had met Coladangelo at Oxford University – and the pair were friends on Facebook.
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MATT HANCOCK WHISKED MISTRESS AIDE GINA AWAY ON ROMANTIC G7 BREAK AFTER CLAIMS HE WAS ‘SH**GING ON TAXPAYER EARNINGS
Appalled Matt Hancock is set to face fresh questions over whether he was “sh**ging on taxpayer cash” amid claims he took his mistress to the G7 health summit this month.
The former Health Secretary, who sensationally stepped down last night after The Sun exposed his romance with Gina Coladangelo, reportedly took the aide with him to Oxford.
It’s not known if the pair stayed together.
However, Hancock slept at a luxury hotel, all paid for by Brits, in the city where he and his lover first met at university students two decades ago.
Hancock – dubbed “puritan-in-chief” for his militant stance on couples from separate households meeting up during lockdown – reportedly told Martha, his wife of 15 years, he would be leaving her on Thursday.
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TREVOR PHILLIPS INVOKES DAUGHTER’S FUNERAL TO CRITICISE HANCOCK BREACH
Sky News presenter Trevor Phillips recalled his daughter’s recent funeral as he questioned a Tory minister over why he should follow rules set by the Government after Matt Hancock breached them.
Veteran broadcaster Phillips, who was hosting the channel’s Sunday politics show, told how hundreds of family and friends had been unable to attend in person due to the social distancing rules that the former health secretary had himself broken.
Mr Hancock resigned on Saturday following the leaking of video footage showing him kissing an aide in his ministerial office on May 6, days before Phillips’ daughter was buried in a ceremony limited to 30 in person guests.
Freelance journalist Sushila died in April following a two-decade battle with anorexia.
Speaking to Northern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis, Phillips said he wanted to ask a “private, a personal question”.
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WATCH: MATT HANCOCK'S RESIGNATION STATEMENT IN FULL
Matt Hancock resigns after affair with aide is exposed
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MATT HANCOCK ADMITS ‘I’VE BREACHED SOCIAL DISTANCING’ BUT DOESN’T APOLOGISE TO WIFE AS HE BREAKS SILENCE OVER AFFAIR
Matt Hancock has broken his silence to admit he “breached social distancing rules” – but failed to apologise to his wife of 15 years after his explosive affair was revealed by The Sun.
The Health Secretary, 42, refused to resign and instead said he “has let people down and is very sorry” as he faces calls to be sacked by Boris Johnson for his brazen steamy clinch in Whitehall.
CCTV images published this morning showed him passionately kissing his aide – with the dad-of-three shamelessly asking for “privacy on this personal matter” just hours later.
And he admitted he had “broken social distancing rules” after lecturing the country on coronavirus regulations throughout the pandemic.
In his very short statement, in which he failed to apologise to his wife or acknowledge his behaviour, he said: “I accept that I breached the social distancing guidance in these circumstances.
“I have let people down and am very sorry. I remain focused on working to get the country out of this pandemic, and would be grateful for privacy for my family on this personal matter.”
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LOOSE WOMEN'S NADIA SAWALHA GOES OFF ON MATT HANCOCK IN SWEARY RANT, SAYING HER 'HEART BREAKS' FOR FAMILIES OF COVID VICTIMS
Nadia Sawalha launched a scathing attack on Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Health Secretary Matt Hancock following the shocking revelation of Matt’s rule-breaking affair.
The Loose Women star took to social media to compare the actions of Boris Johnson to those of North Korea, Russia and China.
Nadia, 56, said: “I am sure we will still be expected to stick to all the rules and make our teenagers stick to all the rules, and our kids stick to all the rules, while these f***ers continually break them.
“I don’t give a damn if anyone out of the government breaks a rule, it’s none of my business, I don’t care.
"But when the guy who stood on that podium week after week – with his family values face, and with his doing the right thing and pull together message – is groping someone who he has given a contract to in his ministerial office and the prime minister yet again comes out and says I accept his apology and the case is now closed."
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BROTHER OF MATT HANCOCK'S AIDE GINA IS TOP EXECUTIVE OF HEALTHCARE COMPANY AWARDED WITH NHS CONTRACTS
The brother of Matt Hancock’s mistress is an executive of a private healthcare company which has been awarded a series of NHS contracts.
The Health Secretary was revealed to be having an affair with his aide Gina Coladangelo, after they were caught on camera snogging on May 6.
Roberto Coladangelo, Gina’s brother, works at the Partnering Health Limited (PHL Group) which specialises in the provision of urgent and primary care services.
According to Sky News pals of Mr Coladangelo confirmed the relationship between Gina and him, as well as social media profiles.
No friends have been willing to publicly confirm or deny that the pair are siblings, and Mr Coladangelo has not responded to requests for comment.
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EXPLOSIVE AFFAIR
Mr Hancock was seen kissing her at the Department of Health’s London HQ during office hours last month as the mutant strain began spreading.
Matt Hancock married his wife Martha, an osteopath, in 2006 and the pair have three children together.
The couple lives in Little Thurlow in his West Suffolk constituency with their one daughter and three sons.
A Whitehall whistleblower told The Sun it was “shocking that Mr Hancock was having an affair in the middle of a pandemic with an adviser and friend he used public money to hire”.
Last night, a friend of the Health Secretary said: “He has no comment on personal matters. No rules have been broken.”
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POLICE WILL NOT INVESTIGATE HANCOCK
Police say retrospective investigation into UK Health Secretary Hancock's coronavirus breach will not be pursued.
Met police, asked about Matt Hancock’s alleged Covid breach, says it will not investigate retrospectively: “We will focus on those (breaches) that are live, or where police action can enable a change to behaviour that is posing a current public health risk”
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PIERS MORGAN BLASTS 'TOTALLY FU***** HOPELESS' MATT HANCOCK
Piers Morgan has blasted Matt Hancock for resigning over his affair and not over failures that saw Britain's Covid toll rise.
The Health Secretary quit yesterday amid mounting pressure from colleagues over images of him kissing and cuddling Gina Coladangelo in a breach of coronavirus restrictions.
Taking to Twitter soon after the news broke, former Good Morning Britain host Piers, 56, berated the minister, writing: "Didn’t resign for his abject failures on PPE, testing & care homes that led to Britain having the worst covid death toll in Europe.
"Did resign for being caught snogging his mistress. Pretty much sums up Matt Hancock. As the Prime Minister said: ‘Totally f***ing hopeless.’"
Mr Hancock finally fell on his sword admitting he had "let down" the millions who had made painful personal sacrifices during the pandemic.
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SLAP IN THE FACE
Grieving families who have lost loved ones to coronavirus have written to the Prime Minister after he refused to sack Matt Hancock in the wake of his secret affair being exposed.
Bereaved Brits have slammed Boris Johnson's decision to keep the Health Secretary as a "slap in the face" to the thousands of families of Covid victims.
Despite preaching the importance of social distancing and lockdown rules during the pandemic, the father-of-three cheated on his wife with his closest aide Gina Coladangelo, 43, who he hired last year with taxpayers’ money.
But Hannah Brady, who lost her father Shaun, 55, to the virus, has hit out at Mr Hancock and said he "has treated bereaved families with contempt".
She believes the 42-year-old should have already been struck off for his failures and is infuriated that the PM "considers the matter closed".
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WHAT HAS THE PRIME MINISTER SAID ABOUT MATT HANCOCK'S AFFAIR WITH THE AIDE?
Boris Johnson has accepted his apology and "considers the matter closed", Downing Street said.
A No10 spokesman said: "The Health Secretary set out that he accepted that he breached the social distancing guidelines.
"Obviously he has apologised for that. The Prime Minister has accepted the health secretary's apology and considers the matter closed."
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MATT HANCOCK ADMITS ‘I’VE BREACHED SOCIAL DISTANCING’ BUT DOESN’T APOLOGISE TO WIFE AS HE BREAKS SILENCE OVER AFFAIR
Matt Hancock has today broken his silence to admit he “breached social distancing rules” – but failed to apologise to his wife of 15 years after his explosive affair was revealed by The Sun.
The Health Secretary, 42, refused to resign and instead said he “has let people down and is very sorry” as he faces calls to be sacked by Boris Johnson for his brazen steamy clinch in Whitehall.
CCTV images published this morning showed him passionately kissing his aide – with the dad-of-three shamelessly asking for “privacy on this personal matter” just hours later.
And he admitted he had “broken social distancing rules” after lecturing the country on coronavirus regulations throughout the pandemic.
In his very short statement, in which he failed to apologise to his wife or acknowledge his behaviour, he said: “I accept that I breached the social distancing guidance in these circumstances.
“I have let people down and am very sorry. I remain focused on working to get the country out of this pandemic, and would be grateful for privacy for my family on this personal matter.”
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MATT HANCOCK FACES CALLS TO BE SACKED OVER SHOCKING AFFAIR SCANDAL AS HE SCRAPS PUBLIC VISIT
Health Secretary Matt Hancock has scrapped a public appearance today as he bunkered down following The Sun's bombshell revelations of a shameful affair with his close adviser.
Hancock is fighting for his job after facing calls to be sacked over the shameful affair scandal.
He was supposed to attend a vaccination centre at Newmarket in his Suffolk constituency today but trip would have been undoubtedly overshadowed by mounting questions of him snogging top adviser Gina Coladangelo.
And this afternoon, Mr Hancock apologised for his actions, saying: "I accept that I breached the social distancing guidance in these circumstances.
"I have let people down and am very sorry.
"I remain focused on working to get the country out of this pandemic, and would be grateful for privacy for my family on this personal matter."
- Harvey Lindsay
SLAP IN THE FACE
Grieving families who have lost loved ones to coronavirus have written to the Prime Minister after he refused to sack Matt Hancock in the wake of his secret affair being exposed.
Bereaved Brits have slammed Boris Johnson's decision to keep the Health Secretary as a "slap in the face" to the thousands of families of Covid victims.
Despite preaching the importance of social distancing and lockdown rules during the pandemic, the father-of-three cheated on his wife with his closest aide Gina Coladangelo, 43, who he hired last year with taxpayers’ money.
But Hannah Brady, who lost her father Shaun, 55, to the virus, has hit out at Mr Hancock and said he "has treated bereaved families with contempt".
She believes the 42-year-old should have already been struck off for his failures and is infuriated that the PM "considers the matter closed".
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WIFE OF 15 YEARS
During the pandemic, the office has provided the backdrop to his Zoom appearances on TV — including the Andrew Marr Show.
Mr Hancock is seen checking the corridor is clear before closing the door and then leaning on it to ensure he cannot be disturbed.
Ms Coladangelo then walks towards him and the pair begin their passionate embrace.
According to a whistleblower, who used to work at the department, the pair have regularly been caught in clinches together.
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MATT HANCOCK’S MISTRESS GINA COLADANGELO REVEALS HE FIBBED ON STUDENT RADIO LAST YEAR
Coladangelo went on to reveal how Hancock had told a “white lie” about watching a rugby match at Twickenham when in reality he was watching the game in a pub.
She said: “He got one of these special tickets to go and sit in the press box with all the other serious journalists at Twickenham to watch a big match.
“I think it was Australia vs England.
“He actually overslept and hot-footed it to the train but didn’t make it back to Twickenham from Oxford in time so Matt had to get off the train at Reading, find a pub, watch the first half and then go to phone box outside and report in.
“So he told a white lie, pretended he was at Twickenham watching the rugby when in fact he was in a pub in Reading.
“Successfully, no one ever found out.”
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