UK health minister quits after breaking COVID-19 rules with affair

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Britain's health minister Matt Hancock has resigned after he admitted breaking COVID-19 guidance by kissing and embracing an aide in his office.

LONDON: UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock resigned on Saturday following revelations that he broke the government's own coronavirus restrictions during an affair with a close aide.

Johnson said he was"sorry" to receive Hancock's resignation, and that he should be"immensely proud" of his service. The main opposition Labour party said the government needed to answer questions about the undisclosed appointment of the aide, former lobbyist Gina Coladangelo, to Hancock's top advisory team.READ: UK health minister pictured kissing aide; opposition wants appointment 'looked into'Last week, Hancock rejected criticism of his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic after private WhatsApp exchanges emerged in which Johnson appeared to describe him as"hopeless".

But Johnson praised Hancock for his role in Britain's succesful vaccine rollout, which he called"one of the greatest successes of the modern state". Johnson's former aide Dominic Cummings had recently turned his guns on Hancock, releasing scathing internal documents related to his early handling of the pandemic.

 

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