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  • Wednesday, 12 April, 2023
    Hancock ‘shocked and surprised’ by standards commissioner inquiry

    As well as probe into ex-health secretary, parliamentary watchdog looking at Tory MPs Scott Benton and Henry Smith

  • Sunday, 12 March, 2023
    Pilita Clark
    Is WhatsApp making work life more nasty and brutish?

    Leaked messages written by the UK’s hapless former health secretary suggest it might be

  • Thursday, 9 March, 2023
    Jemima Kelly
    You don’t restore trust in the media by abandoning objectivity

    In the current political climate we need to double down on fundamental journalistic principles, not surrender them

  • Saturday, 4 March, 2023
    Henry Mance
    The tragedy of Matt Hancock

    The UK’s Covid-era health secretary is not so much incompetent as annoying

  • Friday, 3 March, 2023
    UK politics & policy
    Off message: Hancock saga reveals central role of WhatsApp in UK politics

    Contents of archive seized on by anti-lockdown campaigners ahead of public inquiry entering a more public phase

  • Wednesday, 1 March, 2023
    UK care homes
    UK government defends handling of Covid in care homes

    Response follows report accusing former health secretary Matt Hancock of rejecting expert advice on testing

  • Wednesday, 1 March, 2023
    FT Alphaville
    What really happened with Matt Hancock’s Newcastle Shirt

    Give your shirt and wear it too

  • Tuesday, 21 February, 2023
    Matt Hancock MP is promoting NFTs for his former Ukrainian lodgers

    What’s the story, non-fungible Tory?

  • Tuesday, 15 November, 2022
    UK politics & policy
    Hancock has undermined role of MP, says Sunak

    UK prime minister accuses former health secretary of debasing politics through TV show appearance

  • Wednesday, 9 November, 2022
    Media
    How much would your MP need to be paid to eat a kangaroo penis on national television?

    Alphaville abhors politics, but loves exotic market prices

  • Thursday, 3 November, 2022
    Sebastian Payne
    Britain must learn to love boring politics again

    Matt Hancock’s reality television debut should mark the long hoped for end to Tory psychodrama

  • Tuesday, 1 November, 2022
    FT Alphaville
    Kangaroo balls > crypto?

    Plus: A Dick and a Johnson walk into a blockchain symposium

  • Tuesday, 1 November, 2022
    Hancock loses Tory whip after signing up for ITV reality show

    Former health secretary suspended ‘with immediate effect’ as allies defend ‘incredible opportunity’

  • Wednesday, 24 August, 2022
    Metaverse
    What’s the story, hunky Tory?

    Matt Hancock “is launching into the Metaverse”, with some quite perky pecs.

  • Tuesday, 26 July, 2022
    UK government spending
    MPs criticise award of £777mn Covid contracts to medical group Randox

    ‘Impossible to have confidence’ deals issued to diagnostics company were done properly, says committee report

  • Friday, 18 February, 2022
    FT AlphavilleJemima Kelly
    What’s the story, blockchain Tory?

    Matt Hancock has a new passion, and it’s not one of his aides this time.

  • Thursday, 15 July, 2021
    UK Government
    Two homes raided in criminal probe of Hancock video leak

    UK Information Commissioner’s Office acts after ‘breach report’ from CCTV operator at health department

  • Sunday, 11 July, 2021
    Whitehall reform
    Hancock affair highlights opaque world of Whitehall non-execs

    Ministers usually make final decision on appointments, despite part of role being to scrutinise government

  • Friday, 2 July, 2021
    News in-depthUK Government
    Probe into Hancock footage leak focuses on use of Whitehall CCTV

    Investigation seeks to unravel how the former health secretary came to be filmed, apparently unknown, in his ministerial office

  • Thursday, 1 July, 2021
    Jo Ellison
    Let’s not be so laissez-faire about affairs

    If someone can tell bald-faced lies to their family and friends, why should we trust them to do their job?

  • Wednesday, 30 June, 2021
    Robert Shrimsley
    Matt Hancock’s fall will have lasting consequences

    The instance of a second leading lockdown advocate breaking the rules will have a permanent impact on UK government

  • Monday, 28 June, 2021
    Coronavirus
    UK must ‘learn to live’ with Covid, says new health secretary

    Sajid Javid sticks to plan to return England to economic normality on July 19

  • Monday, 28 June, 2021
    UK Government
    Security sweeps of Whitehall offices ordered after Hancock CCTV leak

    Ministers, officials and parliament react to concern about what discussions might have been recorded

  • Monday, 28 June, 2021
    UK politics & policy
    Javid wants return to normal for England ‘as soon as possible’

    New health secretary signals support for lifting remaining coronavirus restrictions on July 19

  • Sunday, 27 June, 2021
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    After Matt Hancock’s exit, government must get a grip

    Sajid Javid could boost a cabinet struggling to control its agenda

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