Queen's two-word assessment of disgraced Matt Hancock caught on camera
dailystar.co.ukThe Queen once had a sympathetic assessment about the former Health Secretary Matt Hancock when he was leading the country's response to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Last year, during the first in-person meeting with Boris Johnson in fifteen months, a camera captured her Majesty's opening remarks, The Mirror reports.After having a back and forth of small talk with Mr Johnson, the Queen: "I’ve just been talking to your Secretary of State for Health, poor man…""He came for privy council," she said. "..he’s full of, er…"The PM interrupted, suggesting Mr Hancock was full of "beans".But caught on camera, the Queen appeared to remark either "confidence" or "promises"."He thinks things are getting better,” she said.Mr Johnson replied: “Well, er, they are.”The conversation came just days before Mr Hancock resigned following leaked CCTV footage showing him locked in an embrace with his adviser Gina Coladangelo at his Whitehall office.
The footage was captured on May 6 2021, when social gatherings indoors with different households were banned. Boris Johnson was criticised for not firing Mr Hancock after the footage was released.
But the Health Secretary resigned just a day after admitting that he had failed to follow his own Covid guidance. In a recent interview on the Diary of a CEO podcast, Mr Hancock revealed that he fell in love with Ms Coladangelo while they were working together at the Department for Health and Social Care. To get more news stories from Daily Star delivered straight to your inbox sign up to one of our free newsletters here.The former Health Secretary left his wife and children to start a relationship with his adviser –who was also married with children.
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