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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Ben Glaze

Matt Hancock told to apologise to MPs for breaking Commons rules

I’m A Celebrity …! MP Matt Hancock has been told to apologise to Parliament for breaching the Commons Code of Conduct.

The former Health Secretary, 44, was found to have broken the rules by sending a letter to the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, Daniel Greenberg, who was carrying out an investigation into another Tory MP.

Mr Hancock, who is quitting as MP for West Suffolk at the next election, told the watchdog it was “my firm belief” the backbencher in the original probe “did nothing improper and should be cleared from any accusation”.

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