Matt Hancock under fire over alleged affair with close aide Gina Coladangelo

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A cabinet minister was today forced to deny that Matt Hancock’s alleged affair with an aide in the health department broke social distancing rules.

Transport Secretary Grant Shapps also insisted that Whitehall rules had not been flouted by the reported appointment of Gina Coladangelo as an unpaid adviser to the Health Secretary on a six-month contract last year and then to the department’s board.

However, Labour called on the Government to be “open and transparent about whether there are any conflicts of interests or rules that have been broken”.

The Sun today published a CCTV picture allegedly showing Mr Hancock, 42, in an embrace with Ms Coladangelo, 43, in the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) shortly after 3pm on May 6.

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