UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock has resigned after pictures of him embracing an aide in his office in violation of Covid norms were published by a national daily.
Hancock who was the frontman of UK’s response to the pandemic, particularly the nationwide vaccine roll-out, quit in a letter to Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
Hancock conceded he had let the public down after The Sun newspaper published a security camera still obtained apparently from a whistleblower showing him kissing the aide in his office on May 6. According to the newspaper, Hancock had appointed the woman to scrutinise the performance of his department at the taxpayer's expense.
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In his letter to Johnson on Saturday, Hancock apologized to his own family for ‘putting them through this’.