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UK health minister resigns after breaking pandemic restrictions during affair with aide
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Britain's Health Secretary Matt Hancock speaks at Mansfield College, Oxford University, Oxford, on June 4, 2021. (Steve Parsons/Pool/AFP)
British Health Secretary Matt Hancock resigns after he admitted to breaking pandemic restrictions during a newly-revealed affair with a close aide.
Last week, Hancock rejected criticism of his handling of the pandemic after private WhatsApp exchanges emerged, in which British Prime Minister Boris Johnson appeared to describe him as “hopeless.”
Hancock has also previously faced allegations that he lied to Johnson and awarded a contract to an unqualified friend.
He has faced further questions about his ownership of shares in a family company that won a COVID-related contract from his ministry last year.
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