At least Michael is not Matt Hancock, says ex-Mrs Gove
CHEATING Matt Hancock has been savaged for the way he left his wife Martha – with a Tory rival’s separated partner putting the boot in as he holidays with his mistress in the Swiss Alps.
Sarah Vine – divorcing Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove – said: ‘My ex and I have our differences but for one thing I am hugely grateful: he is not Matt Hancock.
‘However painful and complicated the unravelling of our marriage may be, he has at every turn behaved like a perfect gentleman. Which, it seems, is more than can be said of the former health secretary.’
Ms Vine said of photos of dad-of-three Mr Hancock, 42, with his lover Gina Coladangelo, 44, at their ski resort: ‘The pair have clearly failed to keep a low profile for the sake of Martha – who is suffering from long Covid, no doubt exacerbated by the stress – and their children.
‘It is, as so often with politicians, all about him,’ she wrote in her Mail On Sunday column. ‘In some ways, it’s the nature of the beast. It takes unshakeable self-belief to be a success in high-level politics, and even when he was a pipsqueak nobody, it was clear Hancock had the bearing and confidence of a Panzer.’ The lovers were exposed in June when The Sun ran CCTV images of the health secretary and the adviser he appointed kissing in his office, breaching his own social distancing rules.
While Martha did the school run in London last week, Mr Hancock and mother-of-three Ms Coladangelo drove to Switzerland for an £87-a-night stay in Villars-sur-Ollon, near Montreux.
Pictures showed him wearing a baseball cap, sunglasses and a face mask while Ms Coladangelo dressed casually in a denim jacket and black dress as they headed to dinner with friends.
The West Suffolk MP is said to be plotting a political comeback despite being forced to quit the cabinet.