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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Esther Addley

Career highlights of I’m a Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here! star Matt Hancock

Matt Hancock.
Matt Hancock’s jungle adventure starts on Sunday. Photograph: Future Publishing/Getty Images

Who is Matt Hancock? A man who cares a great deal about campaigning for dyslexia, that’s who. For that, he explained this week, is the reason he has signed up for the latest series of I’m a Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here!, earning the fury of bereaved Covid families, the loss of the Conservative whip, and a fee estimated at £350,000.

With Hancock’s jungle adventure set to begin on Sunday, some may welcome a reminder of the man who led Britain’s Covid response as health secretary, until he was forced to resign over a workplace affair that broke his own Covid rules. Here are 10 notable moments in his career.

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