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Extramarital affairs exposed and tripped the Minister of Health, tens of thousands of confirmed cases of the British epidemic situation are still grim

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(Original title: Exposure of extramarital affairs tripped the Minister of Health, tens of thousands of confirmed cases in the UK are still grim)

The fortunes of the two British Conservative Party politicians had a major reversal last weekend, which directly affected the UK’s most important work on the prevention and control of the new crown epidemic.

Last weekend, the fortunes of two British Conservative Party politicians have undergone an important reversal, which directly affects the UK’s most important work on the prevention and control of the new crown epidemic. Two days after the video of the extramarital affairs with his assistant was exposed, the former Minister of Health Matt Hancock reluctantly lost his job. He was replaced by the former Chancellor of the Exchequer Sajid Javid, who is no stranger to the media and the public.

On June 28, when Javid visited St Thomas’ Hospital in central London as a new official, he stated that his “absolute priority” is to lift restrictions and return to normal life as soon as possible; he also promised to implement unblocking after four weeks have been postponed. After “Freedom Day” on July 19, the new crown blockade policy will not return.

The Delta mutant virus has caused a sharp increase in the number of confirmed cases of the new crown in the UK, but the number of hospitalizations is still very low. Last Sunday, 14,876 new confirmed cases and 11 deaths were reported. The number of new cases has increased by 5,592 from a week ago, and the total number of newly confirmed cases in the past week has increased by 59%. According to data released on June 27, 61.6% of adults in the UK have now received two doses of the vaccine, and half of adults under 30 have also been vaccinated.

This week, MI5 will hold talks with the Cabinet Office to discuss whether videos showing Hancock and his assistants kissing closely behind the office door constitute a national security breach. The Department of Health and Social Security of the United Kingdom is also launching an internal investigation into how the video was leaked to the media, including investigating why CCTV cameras were installed in the minister’s office.

The whistleblower and the fall of the Minister of Health

Probably not many people would be happy that the 42-year-old Hancock finally found “true love”. After 15 years of marriage and three children, the Minister of Health discovered that his former Oxford colleague, Radangelo, was his favorite. people. The leaking camera has existed in the Office of the Secretary of Health since at least 2017. No one knows whether he was unknowingly bursting with passion at the time or whether it was really big.

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Since the outbreak of the new crown epidemic last year, Hancock’s performance has been considered mediocre. Cummings, a former senior adviser to Prime Minister Johnson, called Hancock “incurable” in a question in the House of Commons more than a week ago. Media dissatisfied with his handling of the epidemic claimed that Hancock should have been removed 15 to 20 times.

Last Thursday afternoon, Hancock also defended his department’s controversial plan to share tens of millions of NHS (National Health Care Service) patient data with external agencies in the House of Commons. He accidentally received a call from the media tycoon Murdoch’s “The Sun” at 6 pm. The newspaper informed him that they had photos and videos of him kissing his assistant in the office on May 6 and they were going to publish it the next day.

Hancock returned home and gave a showdown to his 44-year-old wife. He also woke up his sleeping 8-year-old son to inform his mother that the marriage was about to end.

His wife is a doctor. According to family friends, until then, she had always believed that her marriage was “happy and stable.” She was infected with the new crown virus by Hancock in May last year, and it is said that she is still suffering from long-term symptoms.

The passion image published in The Sun is from a video screenshot taken after 3 pm on May 6, 2021, and is located in the Office of the Minister of Health on the 10th floor of the Ministry of Health Building. At that time, various government departments were paying attention to the local elections held on that day, but the Minister of Health “slid in a hurry.”

What made people most angry was that England was still in the second stage of the implementation of the new crown epidemic ban. According to the regulations, no one can participate in a gathering of two or more people indoors. Legal experts therefore believe that these two people are illegal gatherings.

The whistleblower who broke the news to The Sun is said to have worked in the Ministry of Health and has left. He said it was shocking to see Hancock cheating on consultants and personal friends he hired with taxpayer money during the epidemic crisis. In fact, rumors about the close relationship between the two have been around more than a year ago. When Hancock competed for the leadership of the Conservative Party in 2018, reporters saw Cora Dangelo standing there supporting him at the scene ( Gina Coladangelo).

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The 43-year-old Coradangelo is also married with three sons. Her husband is the co-founder of a chain of household goods. The media dug up her acquaintance with Hancock during the Oxford student radio station Oxygen FM in the late 1990s. Back then, she was a radio star, responsible for a political program, and had many male admirers including Hancock. Hancock was just a “low status” amateur sports reporter on student radio.

Before the UK’s first lockdown in March 2020, Gina received an unpaid position in the Ministry of Health. In September of that year, she was appointed as the non-executive director of the Ministry of Health Management. She needs to work about 15 to 20 days a year and earn an annual salary of 15,000 pounds. . She often accompanies the Secretary of Health to attend secret meetings on Downing Street. She has participated in many important decisions of Hancock and is considered Hancock’s “closest advisor”.

Hancock did not want to give up his position at the beginning. He chose a sincere apology last Friday. He received a warning from the party the next day that if he continued to stay in office, it would cause lasting damage to the government, and the media paid back the next day. There will be a lot of follow-up reports, and he finally announced his resignation on Saturday night. “I don’t want my private life to distract people from their dedicated efforts to lead us out of this crisis.” He wrote in his resignation letter.

This does not appease people’s anger. Many people have called on social media to cancel the 16,000 pounds severance pay that Hancock can get when he leaves office as a minister.

After the Hancock scandal, the Justice Department (Robert Buckland) called for regular security inspections of the cameras in the Cabinet Secretary’s Office to avoid unauthorized equipment that might undermine national security.

But the Labor Party retorted that Hancock’s kiss with his girlfriend is not a national security issue, but a national embarrassment issue.

The deputy leader of the Labor Party (Angela Rayner) said: “This government has decayed to the core. We need to know the scope of this matter and how much government affairs are carried out in secret.”

“Fire Captain” Javid returns to the arena

Javid was the first person of Asian background to hold the post of Cabinet Minister of the British Government. He was born in 1969. His father was a bus driver. He was born in India. He fled to Pakistan as a child and arrived in the UK in the 1960s. According to Javid, his father had only £1 in his pocket when he arrived in the UK.

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After studying economics and political science at the University of Exeter, he started his career in the City of London and became the vice president of Chase Manhattan Bank at the age of 25. Entered the political arena in 2009 and rose rapidly. He served as the personal secretary of the then Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne and worked in the Ministry of Finance.

During the turbulent years of British politics, he became the Minister of Culture in 2014, the Minister of Commerce in 2015, the Minister of Housing in 2016, the Minister of the Interior in 2018, and the Minister of Finance in 2019. In February 2020, he only did nothing. In half a year, he was the Minister of Finance and resigned because of the intensification of conflicts with the Prime Minister’s adviser Cummings.

Compared to Hancock, Javid’s views are more hawkish. He has long believed that people will have to coexist with the new crown virus for months, even years.

Javid said on June 28 that he would “at any cost” to ensure that NHS employees get everything they need. When asked whether this meant he would advocate a salary increase for NHS employees, Javid said that the independent salary review agency is studying the matter, and the government will provide NHS staff, doctors and nurses with all the support it can provide. The British government’s proposal of a 1% salary increase for NHS employees in March this year angered practitioners in the public healthcare system. The health union called such a meager salary increase “insulting.”

The new Minister of Health also urged people to get vaccinated. It is expected that the goal of vaccinating all adults will be completed by July 19, which will be two weeks ahead of the government’s original schedule.

Javid said that lifting restrictions and getting life back to normal as soon as possible is his absolute priority. As for the road map to be released that afternoon, he emphasized that “this will be irreversible and there is no turning back.”

(Author: Shi Yan, Editor: Chen Qingmei)

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