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Nick Curtis

Matt Hancock may cause the UK to combust with embarrassment

Matt Hancock (PA)

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Hat Mancock. Matt Halfcock. The Oatmilk Tray Man. The wandering member for West Suffolk. He who makes Alan Partridge look like Viggo Mortensen. Making fun of former health secretary Matt Hancock is like shooting fish in a barrel. No, wait, it’s like shooting a fish that spends its entire life flopping around a target range, in an ill-advised poloneck jumper, shouting “shoot me, shoot me”.

I’ve lost count of the ways Hancock has embarrassed himself and us. The attempt at parkour worse, his caught-on-camera clinch with aide Gina Coladangelo, his soon-to-be-remaindered Pandemic Diaries.

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