UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock has resigned after apologising for breaching social distancing rules with an aide he was allegedly having an affair with. The tabloid Sun newspaper had run images showing Hancock, who is married, and senior aide Gina Coladangelo kissing in an office at the Department of Health. In a resignation letter to UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Hancock said the government owed “it to people who have sacrificed so much in this pandemic to be honest when we have let them down”. Matt Dunham/AP Britain's Health Secretary Matt Hancock has resigned. Johnson resisted pressure to fire him, but Cummings left his job in November amid a power struggle in the prime minister’s office.

Source: Stuff June 26, 2021 18:17 UTC