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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Robert Booth Social affairs correspondent

Matt Hancock’s I’m a Celeb appearance ‘insulting’, says bereaved daughter

Matt Hancock leaves 10 Downing Street
Matt Hancock leaves 10 Downing Street in April 2020 after the beginning of the UK’s first Covid lockdown. Photograph: Matt Dunham/AP

A bereaved daughter who won a high court ruling that Matt Hancock’s policy on care home discharges at the start of the Covid pandemic was unlawful has urged TV viewers to boycott his appearance on I’m a Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here!

Dr Cathy Gardner, whose father was among more than 11,000 care home residents in England whose deaths involved Covid in March and April 2020, said “to see him just paraded on television, like he’s some kind of fun figure, so he can make some money and make himself into some kind of fake celebrity” was “insulting” and “completely sick”.

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