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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
John Rentoul

Matt Hancock: The energetic health secretary who was brought down by his own lockdown rules

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Matt Hancock must have felt that he had never been so exposed and uncomfortable as when the photo of his intimate embrace with Gina Coladangelo, his new lover, was all over the internet.

Yet he immediately sought further exposure and discomfort in pursuing a new career as a TV personality by going on a jungle-based reality show that involves eating camel penis and other forms of mild consensual torture.

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