Sign up to FREE email alerts from the Northern Agenda Former health secretary Matt Hancock personally appointed Gina Coladangelo as an adviser to the Department of Health, comments from Downing Street suggest.
Mr Hancock resigned from the Cabinet on Saturday after video footage of him kissing his aide were leaked to the press. Questions have been raised over Ms Coladangelo's appointment to the £15,000 a year taxpayer funded role after it emerged the couple were having an affair. READ MORE: What the new health secretary means for hopes of lockdown rules ending Now, Downing Street has suggested Mr Hancock personally appointed his friend and lover, who he met at university, as a non-executive director at the Department of Health and Social
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