The rise and fall of former Health Secretary Matt Hancock

Health Secretary Matt Hancock once told people there was no excuse to break social distancing, but after a recent affair was exposed he resigned his position.

Hancock was caught on CCTV kissing his aide Gina Coladangelo, breaking the social distancing rules he advocated for.

Sky's Paul Kelso looks at the rise and fall of the former Health Secretary.

[MerrickKing]

I don't think Hancock ever rose, just different speeds of falling

[simondaniel]

Resignations is nothing. We prefer jailtime for what he did to uk economy.

[LJAndrews]

Just imagine, we won't have to see his smug little face on the screen anymore. It's the little things

[martinwill]

Should have been sacked. Another cushy send off. He will be spilling the beans on Johnson soon.

[booh]

This just proves that the UK government is as pathetic as most other governments.

[dangreen]

Why are people on Twitter saying Matt Hancock did a good job? What exactly did he do that was such a good job? Nothing.. he was a useless waste of space

[VoidlessDeity]

Matt Hancock fell since the day he was born.

[syedbilalnafees]

A rise would imply he was once good and then fell from grace. Hancock has always been a incompetent fool. And to think it wasn't his failure with Covid that forced a resignation, but that he was caught cheating. And BoJo didn't have the spine to sack him either

[jacquistephens]

He broke the distancing rules because he doesn't really believe in them. It was all about creating fear in the public so that he had more power along with his boss Doris. He should now be arrested for crimes against humanity. Xxxx

[carraw]

The tragedy is that he is going because of an orchestrated scandal rather than for his part in gross government incompetence and corruption.

[EyeSpyAudit]

Now that's two members of senior government that have broken their own laws. Complete and utter sausages 🌭🌭🌭

[jkakurinpoche]

WHAT A SOAP OPERA WHAT A SOAP OPERA WHAT A SOAP OPERA

[beaulieuonnp]

They should put up the video and all the lies as part of a Psychology Study of Narcissists. #arrogance #behindcloseddoors #entitlement #power #callousness

[dellhell]

Kay Burley, from her body language and questions appears to know he was having an affair.

[jpmugishapps]

"he planned his departure with great care"

[madgardener]

That says something; the rise and fall of Hancock in less than three and a half minutes.

[wilfredwiggins]

Maybe he'll get a job working with his lover's brother who seems to have secured a few NHS contracts. ☹💉🥴💉😖

[ernestt]

He strikes me as a two-timing cornfed communist.

[Chadhogan]

Power corrupts, this snake has blood on his hands over care home deaths, never mind kissing some assistant

[elizabethbrown]

Remember how he sweated in the Commons last year.