Latest updates: PM criticised for not sacking Matt Hancock before he stood down after photograph with aide showed him breaching social distancing rules
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In his Sky interview Brandon Lewis, the Northern Ireland secretary, confirmed that the Department for Health and Social Care is investigating how Matt Hancock was filmed in his private office. (See 8.46am.)
According to a story by Tim Shipman in the Sunday Times (paywall), Hancock was filmed with a CCTV camera hidden inside a smoke detector. Shipman reports:
The working assumption of security chiefs is that a government contractor obtained access to a feed from the camera and either downloaded it or filmed the monitor with his phone to pass to The Sun.
The footage of Mr Hancock kissing Gina Coladangelo was caught on a CCTV camera in his office on May 6, and secretly recorded by a member of his department’s staff.
After allowing a month to elapse, the whistleblower approached lockdown sceptics and asked them to help sell the incendiary footage to the media.
Trevor Phillips says Sajid Javid is expected to speak to the media this morning.
Q: Is this a hospital pass for Javid?
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