Matt Hancock

Jun 16, 2025
Jeremy Hunt sitting on a bench outside a cafe.
WHAT I’VE LEARNT
Jeremy Hunt: ‘I feel guilt about Matt Hancock. I put the CCTV in’

The Conservative MP and former minister on his love of Latin music, dealing with Donald Trump, and why Keir Starmer is using his toaster

The Times
May 12, 2025
Matt Hancock speaking at a Babylon Health event.
HMRC calls in thousands of documents in Babylon investigation

Officials are looking into the tax affairs of the healthcare group touted by Matt Hancock before it went into administration owing unsecured creditors £300m

The Times
Feb 20, 2025
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THE TIMES DIARY
Matt Hancock’s healthy dose of perspective on running the NHS

Plus: Joe Haines’s interior design commentary; William Hague advised to forgo brevity; and Katherine Rundell has a nose for children’s books

The Times
Nov 24, 2024
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MATTHEW SYED
Preening lawyers have ensured we learn nothing from inquiries

Seeing KCs run rings round public servants who battled Covid is a costly, overrated form of entertainment

The Sunday Times
Nov 21, 2024
Matt Hancock: I shielded NHS from political interference during Covid
POLITICAL SKETCH
Mocked at the Covid inquiry… hardly the swansong Hancock envisaged

The former health secretary once again sought to defend the indefensible during an unconvincing appearance under the scrutiny of Baroness Hallett

The Times
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Sep 15, 2024
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Confessions of a celebrity house mover

Meet the man who moves in the stars, from Pippa Middleton to Simon Cowell

The Sunday Times
Jul 18, 2024
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Nine key findings from the Covid inquiry

Baroness Hallett’s report criticises civil service groupthink and says officials planned for the wrong type of disease

The Times
Apr 29, 2024
a man in a suit stands in front of a babylon logo
HMRC investigates health technology company linked to Tories

Babylon Healthcare, promoted by Matt Hancock, the former health secretary, and once valued at $4.2 billion, collapsed less than two years after floating in New York

The Times
Mar 19, 2024
Simon Case, the cabinet secretary, took a leave of absence last year and was too ill to appear at the Covid inquiry
POLITICS
Cabinet secretary Simon Case will finally appear at Covid inquiry

The appearance by the head of the civil service is likely to alarm Downing Street as the general election edges closer

The Times
Feb 29, 2024
Provocative sports hacks pale next to today’s Tories
MARTIN SAMUEL | NOTEBOOK
Provocative sports hacks pale next to today’s Tories

Contrary to what you might have seen on breakfast television some years ago, I never did come to blows with Sir Alex Ferguson. From one particular angle, it...

The Times

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Jun 16, 2025
WHAT I’VE LEARNT
Jeremy Hunt: ‘I feel guilt about Matt Hancock. I put the CCTV in’

The Conservative MP and former minister on his love of Latin music, dealing with Donald Trump, and why Keir Starmer is using his toaster

The Times
May 12, 2025
HMRC calls in thousands of documents in Babylon investigation

Officials are looking into the tax affairs of the healthcare group touted by Matt Hancock before it went into administration owing unsecured creditors £300m

The Times
Feb 20, 2025
THE TIMES DIARY
Matt Hancock’s healthy dose of perspective on running the NHS

Plus: Joe Haines’s interior design commentary; William Hague advised to forgo brevity; and Katherine Rundell has a nose for children’s books

The Times
Nov 24, 2024
MATTHEW SYED
Preening lawyers have ensured we learn nothing from inquiries

Seeing KCs run rings round public servants who battled Covid is a costly, overrated form of entertainment

The Sunday Times
Nov 21, 2024
POLITICAL SKETCH
Mocked at the Covid inquiry… hardly the swansong Hancock envisaged

The former health secretary once again sought to defend the indefensible during an unconvincing appearance under the scrutiny of Baroness Hallett

The Times
ADVERTISEMENT
Sep 15, 2024
Confessions of a celebrity house mover

Meet the man who moves in the stars, from Pippa Middleton to Simon Cowell

The Sunday Times
Jul 18, 2024
Nine key findings from the Covid inquiry

Baroness Hallett’s report criticises civil service groupthink and says officials planned for the wrong type of disease

The Times
Apr 29, 2024
HMRC investigates health technology company linked to Tories

Babylon Healthcare, promoted by Matt Hancock, the former health secretary, and once valued at $4.2 billion, collapsed less than two years after floating in New York

The Times
Mar 19, 2024
POLITICS
Cabinet secretary Simon Case will finally appear at Covid inquiry

The appearance by the head of the civil service is likely to alarm Downing Street as the general election edges closer

The Times
Feb 29, 2024
MARTIN SAMUEL | NOTEBOOK
Provocative sports hacks pale next to today’s Tories

Contrary to what you might have seen on breakfast television some years ago, I never did come to blows with Sir Alex Ferguson. From one particular angle, it...

The Times

Matt Hancock is a British politician who served as the Conservative MP for West Suffolk from 2010-24. As the health secretary in Boris Johnson’s government from 2018-21 he played a prominent role in managing the UK’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Hancock resigned from his position after being caught breaching social distancing rules by kissing and embracing Gina Coladangelo in his office, with whom he was having an affair. The following year he had his party whip suspended after announcing that he would take part in the reality show I’m a Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here!, in which he came third. He did not seek re-election as an MP in 2024.