Sunday Mirror

OFF THE HOOK OF LOVE

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Matt Hancock, the ex-health minister who resigned after breaking the regulation­s he created, has made a video to explain himself.

He says it happened because he was “in love”, so we’ll all forgive him for that.

Next week he’ll make another one, saying: “During the pandemic I gave contracts worth millions of pounds to my mates including a neighbour whose pub I drank in. This is also because I was in love, and also extremely horny on the morning it happened. Sorry.”

This will catch on. Defendants in court will copy

Matt Hancock, wear a cosy jumper and say: “I know I shouldn’t have done it, Your Honour, but the reason I carried out a series of armed robberies on petrol garages and Post Offices is, I was in love.”

Eventually Putin will be in the Hague for his war crimes tribunal and say: “I was in love. We all go crazy in love... I invade Ukraine and shell houses because I am giddy in my head.”

And we’ll all go: “Aah, I know technicall­y he shouldn’t have brought the world to the brink of destructio­n, but who follows all the rules when

we’re smitten?”

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SMITTEN Hancock

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