Grant Shapps defends Matt Hancock over claims of affair with adviser

The transport secretary has defended the health secretary after images were published in the Sun of Hancock in what the paper called a 'clinch' with Gina Coladangelo, a government adviser. Shapps said such roles involved significant civil service oversight and declined to comment on the nature of the relationship between Hancock and Coladangelo. Speaking to BBC Radio 4's Martha Kearney, Shapps added: 'There has for a long time been a complete difference between what people do in their job and what they do in their personal lives.'

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