We’ve had the PPE and care home scandals, and a waiting list of 5 million. But the new health secretary backed the cuts that crippled the NHS
Credit to Matt Hancock where it’s due. Overtaking Andrew Lansley to become the 21st century’s worst UK health secretary was no mean feat, but he managed it. Hancock’s record and ignominious exit from an ignominious tenure put him in pole position in the Academy of Useless Ministers.
Everyone has private lives, but Hancock’s affair with Gina Coladangelo became a public interest issue because he appointed her to the health department’s board, on a reported £15,000 salary for a few days’ work a year. This breaches pretty much all of the Nolan standards of public life, and drives a horse and cart through the ministerial code.
