Tomorrow will mark three weeks since the Matt Hancock scandal broke. The man himself has been keeping a very low public profile since his resignation as Health Secretary on 26 June but already there is talk about an improbable return to government.
Boris Johnson’s letter accepting Hancock’s resignation ended by claiming ‘your contribution to public service is far from over’ and the latter certainly seems to believe that, judging by a report in the Mail on Sunday which suggested he has appealed to current and former Ministers ‘for advice on how to fight back.’ Hancock’s ‘friends’ are quoted as worrying about how, bereft of a ministerial salary, he will fund his ‘new life’ with Gina Coladangelo on a mere backbencher’s income of nearly £82,000 given that companies aren’t exactly lining up to bestow directorships on the disgraced onetime Tory leadership contender. He could always try his sister’s shredding firm of course…
A return to the front bench then seems the most likely way of replenishing his finances ahead of what will presumably be an expensive divorce suit.
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