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Matt Hancock, the former health secretary, gave an interview to Good Morning Britain this morning. As my colleague Jessica Elgot reports, he claimed that he did not “primarily” go on I’m a Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here! for his £320,000 fee.

But the highlight of the interview came when Susanna Reid, the presenter, put it to him that the embrace with Gina Coladangelo (at the time his adviser, now his partner) in his office that led to his resignation was not just against Covid guidelines at the time, but against the law too. Hancock refused to accept this, but he floundered badly, and could not refute what Reid was saying. Here is the clip.

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