This afternoon Downing Street is busy attempting to shut down the Matt Hancock controversy and is making clear they regard the matter as closed.
As health secretary, Mr Hancock signed into law the regulations that he is accused of breaking.
It does not help that everyone is being invited to judge whether the kiss in The Sun was a "reasonably necessary" exception to the ban on indoor contact, the legal test laid down in the regulations.
Nor does it help that Mr Hancock was memorably quick to judge Professor Neil Ferguson when the then Sage scientist was found visiting his lover, and he later resigned.
https://news.sky.com/story/matt-hancock-resigns-as-health-secretary-12342613
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