{"id":260658,"date":"2022-11-02T08:02:35","date_gmt":"2022-11-02T08:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=260658"},"modified":"2022-11-03T08:42:27","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T08:42:27","slug":"matt-hancock-loses-tory-whip-after-agreeing-to-appear-on-im-a-celebrity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=260658","title":{"rendered":"Matt Hancock loses Tory whip after agreeing to appear on I\u2019m a Celebrity"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jessica Elgot, Nadia Khomami and Henry Dyer \u2013 The Guardian Nov 1, 2022<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Matt Hancock has had the Tory whip suspended after it emerged he was entering the jungle for I\u2019m a Celebrity \u2026 Get Me Out of Here!<\/p>\n

The former UK health secretary will be the 12th contestant to enter the ITV reality show, which features famous faces performing gruelling tasks such as being smothered in insects or eating kangaroo penis.<\/p>\n

But the MP for West Suffolk faced a backlash from Conservative MPs and his constituency party over his taking part \u2013 and will now sit as an independent. The show overlaps with time when the Commons is sitting.<\/p>\n

The Conservative chief whip, Simon Hart, said he believed the matter was \u201cserious enough to warrant suspension of the whip with immediate effect\u201d, while Andy Drummond, the deputy chair of the West Suffolk Conservative Association, said: \u201cI\u2019m looking forward to him eating a kangaroo\u2019s penis. You can quote me on that.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Then Minister of Health Matt Hancock sheds tears over reports that the first Britons received Covid-19 jabs. Regardless of the fact that the vaccine will impair or shorten the lives of many.<\/p><\/div>\n

Rishi Sunak\u2019s spokesperson said the prime minister believed that \u201cat a challenging time for the country, MPs should be working hard for their constituents, whether that\u2019s in the house or in their constituency\u201d.<\/p>\n

This week, Hancock pulled out of the running to chair the Treasury select committee and announced a new book, Pandemic Diaries, on his experiences as health secretary during the Covid crisis. The Guardian understands he has already filmed another reality TV show this year \u2013 Channel 4\u2019s Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins.<\/p>\n

Hancock resigned as health secretary last year<\/a> after CCTV footage was leaked showing him kissing his closest aide<\/a>, Gina Coladangelo, in his ministerial office, in breach of his own Covid rules on social distancing.<\/p>\n

One source close to the minister said the show\u2019s producers had agreed for his constituents to continue communicating with him on urgent matters while he was in the jungle.<\/p>\n

They also said Hancock did not expect to serve in the cabinet again. \u201cI\u2019m a Celeb is the most watched show on TV. Matt doesn\u2019t expect to serve in government again, so it\u2019s an incredible opportunity for him to engage with the 12 million Brits who tune in every single night,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n

Hancock reportedly turned down an offer to appear on the show initially but reconsidered after the demise of Liz Truss\u2019s premiership, with the government restored to a semblance of stability. Hancock backed Sunak in the leadership contest but was not asked to return to the cabinet.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen he was first approached to take part, while he was flattered and naturally curious, it didn\u2019t take him too long to turn the opportunity down because of the instability government was facing at the time,\u201d the ally of Hancock said. \u201cNow, though, the government is stable.\u201d<\/p>\n

Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Telling us all we need to know about the reality of the supposed \u2018pandemic\u2019. Former Minister of Health Matt Hancock, who oversaw the imposition of the lockdowns in response to Covid-19 will appear on a \u2018reality TV\u2019 show for a fee of \u00a3350,000 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":205163,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-260658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Current_Affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=260658"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":260662,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260658\/revisions\/260662"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/205163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=260658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=260658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=260658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}