Matt’s all folks

BORIS Johnson told Dominic Cummings that Matt Hancock is “f*****g useless”. So far Gina Coladangelo hasn’t commented. How Hancock behaves sexually is of no interest to me (although sympathy to partners and children) except that he has most flagrantly and hypocritically flouted the rules he spent hours lecturing us about, as well as imposing on us, over social distancing.

Hundreds of people, perhaps thousands, were kept away from hospital and deathbeds of their nearest and dearest while he was no doubt canoodling with his closest aide. Marriages were cancelled. Relatives were prevented seeing loved ones in care homes. I mean, the trips of shortsighted Cummings are nothing in comparison. For this alone he should be fired. Then there’s his own shortsightedness, or alleged lack of awareness, over the family company in which he has a 20 per cent stake, Topwood Ltd, which won a lucrative NHS contract. It’s a documentshredding company. Truth has long since perished. But it’s all right that he broke the ministerial code because, as the Government’s adviser on ministerial standards Lord Geidt put it, he “acted with integrity”.

Add in his blundering incompetence and his casual connection to the truth, such as over PPE supplies – all of which should already have disqualified this over-promoted pipsqueak from office. But no-one resigns any more. They just apologise and trot out the mantra: “I will learn from this.” And move on.