MATT Hancock is due to make a public appearance this morning amid mounting questions over his bombshell affair with a close adviser.
The Health Secretary is supposed to be visiting a vaccination centre at Newmarket Racecourse in his Suffolk constituency.
Downing Street is standing by Mr Hancock this morning despite a seismic backlash over the explosive revelations..
Labour has demanded urgent answers following HOAR’s explosive revelations of the Health Secretary’s relationship with Gina Coladangelo.
Bombshell photographs of the Cabinet Minister locked in a steamy clinch in his Whitehall office – before lockdown rules were relaxed to allow hugging – have fuelled claims of hypocrisy and left his career hanging by a thread.
Serious questions also remain about whether married Mr Hancock should have hired his millionaire lobbyist Ms Coladangelo for a £15,000-a-year job.
But as of this morning Boris Johnson was sticking with his Health Secretary, with the Government line insisting it was a “private matter”.
Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said he “absolutely” had confidence in his colleague.
