What’s Hancock trying to dodge this time?
WITH a look of fierce determination, Matt Hancock turns into a classic competitive dad during a day out at the funfair with his three children.
The former health secretary took to the dodgems at the Chester fair just days after the latest blow to his battered reputation in the wake of the pandemic.
But Mr Hancock left his Westminster woes far behind as he enjoyed the outing.
Carlene Spicer, 33, who was at the fair with her daughter Imogen, nine, said ‘he seemed very happy’.
‘At one point my daughter even bumped him with her dodgem car,’ she added. ‘When he got off the ride people were coming up to greet him and shake his hand.’ The Chester-born MP’s warm welcome was a far cry from the backlash last week when the High Court ruled that Government policies on discharging hospital patients to care homes without Covid testing had been unlawful.
More than 20,000 vulnerable residents died from the virus in the first wave of the pandemic when Mr Hancock was running the health department.
It was a further blow to the Tory MP who was forced to quit as health secretary last June after being filmed groping his lover and aide Gina Coladangelo at work in breach of his own lockdown rules.
And questions remain over his party’s handling of Covid contracts at the height of the pandemic – including a £30million deal to supply NHS test tubes awarded tothe landlord of Mr Hancock’s local pub in his West Suffolk constituency.