Don’t feel sorry for Hancock... pity his family
I read with concern the article in last week’s Mail on Sunday which stated that Matt Hancock was filled with a ‘terrible black dread’ that his affair would be discovered. Did he seriously think that he could cover that up along with his total mismanagement of his job as Health Secretary? It’s time that all politicians are held to account for their failure.
Gerald Monkcom, Ferndown, Dorset
I began reading the excerpts from Matt Hancock’s diaries. I could not read it all as it occurred to me it was going to be a pity party. He has remarked that he went on
I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! for forgiveness for his affair. Thanks to him, I was unable to fly to the US to say goodbye to my dying mother, nor go to her funeral. Forgiveness? Never.
Carol Rosenberg-Fox,
Stevenage
Matt Hancock is not the victim here. It is telling that he feels sorry for himself and Gina Coladangelo rather than for his publicly humiliated wife and abandoned children.
L. Vasquez, Swindon
In response to the extract from Hancock’s Pandemic Diaries where he states that Boris Johnson asked him how they could justify all this paralysis due to Covid: millions of people never had a test, never downloaded the NHS Test and Trace app and never had Covid. Yet here we are, maskless but broken as a nation, all due to the panicked overreaction by a weak government following the herd.
M. Rivera, Ashfield, Nottinghamshire
I do not understand why Hancock claims he was powerless to do the right thing and walk away from Gina. It happened to my brother – he fell in love at work with a married colleague. The minute he realised he had feelings for her, he looked for another job and started counselling. What he discovered was that whatever he would have built with his colleague was no better than what he already had. It was just new and fresh.
Jessica Lawrence, Manchester
Relationships can fail. It has happened before and it will again. All those holier-than-thou people who criticise both Matt Hancock and Gina should live in the real world.
Amy Williams, Newark, Nottinghamshire
Hancock enforced the so-called guidelines making people believe they were law. It stopped us saying goodbye to loved ones in care homes and hospitals.
M. Shaw, Enfield
I can’t even comprehend how hard the Government’s job was during the pandemic. I never appreciated Matt Hancock’s efforts until reading his diaries, and I hope that people will forgive him – he deserves that.
Henry Burns, Norwich