Hancock affair: PM has ‘serious questions’ to answer, says Labour

Sir Keir Starmer queries award of Covid contracts, issuance of aide’s parliamentary pass and leak of CCTV

Boris Johnson still has “huge questions to answer” in the aftermath of Matt Hancock’s resignation over his affair with a friend and paid adviser, Labour has said, as the government was urged to launch an investigation into a “potential abuse of public money”.

Downing Street was struggling to contain the scandal, which broke last week after CCTV footage emerged of the married health secretary and Gina Coladangelo kissing in his Whitehall office only weeks before.

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