GETTING OFF: British Health Minister Matt Hancock. Foto: KIRSTY WIGGLESWORTH / POOL
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Britain’s Health Secretary Matt Hancock is retiring after breaking the rules.
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Hancock has been in bad weather after British media published surveillance footage of him kissing his chief adviser. Hancock is married to another woman, but the criticism has been that the kiss was a violation of the infection control rules.
The photos will be from May 6, more than a week before the rules on social distancing between people from different households were repealed.
Hancock has previously apologized for the incident and has said that he “is very sorry”.
On Saturday night, he published a video on Twitter where he once again apologizes and says that he has been with Prime Minister Boris Johnson and resigned from the position.
– I understand the enormous sacrifices that everyone in this country has made. As you have done. Those of us who make the rules must follow them and that is why I must withdraw, he says in the video.
According to the BBC, Hancock now writes in a letter to the Prime Minister that the government “owes the people who have sacrificed so much in this pandemic to be honest when we have failed them”. He further repeats his apologies and also apologizes to the family and loved ones.
– The last thing I want is for my private life to take attention away from the focus on leading us out of this crisis, says the former Minister of Health.
The pictures of Hancock first appeared in print in the British tabloid newspaper The Sun, which claims that he and the adviser have known each other since they studied together at Oxford almost 20 years ago.
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