UK’s Matt Hancock Quits as Health Secretary After Kiss With Aide

UK’s Matt Hancock Quits as Health Secretary After Kiss With Aide
Health Secretary Matt Hancock with adviser Gina Coladangelo outside BBC Broadcasting House in London on June 16, 2021. Yui Mok/PA
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Matt Hancock has resigned as Health Secretary, the day after video footage emerged of him kissing an aide in his ministerial office in a breach of coronavirus restrictions.

Images and video showed Hancock in an embrace with aide Gina Coladangelo last month, and the Health Secretary was facing increasing pressure to quit over the breaking of social-distancing rules.