Matt Hancock defends appointing Dido Harding to lead new health body

The health secretary has defended the selection of the Tory peer and former TalkTalk chief executive to run the National Institute for Health Protection after the government decided to scrap Public Health England in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic. Harding heads England’s widely criticised test-and-trace programme

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In This Story: Matt Hancock

Matt Hancock is a British Member of Parliament, who is serving as Health Secretary under Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Hancock was alleged to have been having an affair, after photographs emerged of him apparently kissing a woman at his Ministerial workplace were published by The Sun newspaper on 25 June 2021.

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