Matt Hancock, Britain's beleaguered health secretary, resigns after being caught kissing aide

[Yavin4]

London (CNN)Matt Hancock resigned as Britain's Health Secretary Saturday, one day after he apologized for breaching Covid regulations.

The married politician was pictured kissing and embracing his adviser, with whom British tabloid The Sun alleges he is having an affair. The newspaper reported that the images were from May 6, two weeks before cross-household contact was allowed indoors in England.
"I've been to see the Prime Minister to resign as Secretary of State for Health and Social care... Those of us who make these rules have got to stick by them, and that's why I've got to resign," Hancock said in a video posted on his Twitter page.
"I'm very proud of what we've done to protect the NHS at the peak, to deliver that vaccine rollout -- one of the fastest in the world -- and I look forward to supporting the government and the Prime Minister from the backbenches," he added.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/26/uk/uk-health-secretary-matt-hancock-resigns-gbr-intl/index.html

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[malaise]

1. ROFL

Even with similar evidence the other Matt would say It wasn't me

[Demovictory9]

2. caught red handed

[Yavin4]

3. Well, he was hard at work.

[Aristus]

4. And hard at play.

And hard in the car.

And hard at her place...

[dawg day]

5. I'd assumed it was some cheek peck... but that's a scorcher.

In the Tory civil war, Dominic Cummings (Mr. Evil) recently turned on this guy and accused him quite extremely of causing death because of his unwillingness to institute testing and contact tracing, especially in nursing homes.

Isn't that the way it is... he did his job terribly and caused death, but Johnson kept him in office.

A torrid kiss, and he's gone by sunset.

[Yavin4]

6. So, it's a torrid, Tory, tongue kiss?

I'm on a roll.

[dawg day]

7. IIIICK! Torrid Tory Tongue Kiss!

[OnDoutside]

8. That he actually resigned is the big shock.... they've been shameless.

[treestar]

9. How was there a camera in the location?

How did he not know about it? Article doesn't say.

[Bucky]

11. It's Britain. They have cameras just everywhere

...which you would know if you watched more BBC crime shows.

[Treefrog]

13. The Telegraph has a good article on it. I'd link, but there's a pay wall.

They think the camera was put up surreptitiously, perhaps by someone who suspected him of these shenanigans.

[Treefrog]

10. He hired that woman too.

She’s also married.

[dalton99a]

12. Typical workplace greeting