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Matt Hancock is already plotting how to salvage his political career – despite being urged by some former Cabinet colleagues to quit the Commons entirely.
The ex-Health Secretary has appealed to current and former Ministers for advice on how to fight back after his resignation, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.
Friends of Mr Hancock, forced to quit for breaching social distancing rules by embracing aide Gina Coladangelo in his office, insist he has no intention of quitting as an MP.
The ex-Health Secretary has appealed to current and former Ministers for advice on how to fight back after his resignation
One ministerial friend of Mr Hancock said last night that he would definitely not be giving up his West Suffolk seat. Pictured, Matt Hancock and Gina Coladangelo in a clinch caught on CCTV
But some ex-colleagues say the damage caused is so great that he will have to leave the Commons.
They also warned that even if he stayed on, he could struggle to supplement his backbench MP’s salary of nearly £82,000 with outside jobs, which they say he would now need to.
One former Minister he has consulted said that Mr Hancock, who has left his wife for Ms Coladangelo, would need more money to ‘fund his new life’.
‘But,’ he added, ‘given the notoriety which he
