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Matt Hancock’s walkabout video is as cringe-inducing as you’d expect

Oonagh Keating. Updated September 27th, 2021

Matt Hancock no longer holds a ministerial position in Boris Johnson’s government, and is merely a supportive backbencher, having resigned after his affair with a colleague saw him comprehensively break social distancing rules.

That, however, hasn’t stopped him from maintaining a fairly high public profile. In August, he went viral when his encounter with some teenage girls on the London Underground was shared on TikTok – not by him, but by the girls and a bystander.

But the former Health Secretary has always been very fond of posting his own videos.

Who could forget this Partridgesque – and false – boast?

Or this tree, providing an interesting hairstyle?

Even the excruciating circumstances of his departure from office didn’t prevent him posting this explanatory self-tape.

Which takes us to this – ‘My Day Out, by Matt, aged nearly 43’ – in which he encounters some sympathetic – and over-friendly – members of the public.

Mrs Infection Control might want to reconsider standing so close to him without a mask.

As is traditional under these circumstances, Twitter brought the mockery in spades.

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Con O’Neill wondered if an even more entertaining video might not be available.

We’re not sure this wasn’t it.

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