MATT Hancock has been accused of cheating on his wife with close friend and lobbyist Gina Coladangelo.
The Health Secretary was allegedly caught on camera kissing Coladangelo what The Sun referred to as a “steamy clinch”.
The security camera pictures were taken on May 6 but the pair have been seen together on other occasions, according to the newspaper.
The 42-year-old has been married for 15 years to Martha, and the pair have three children. Coladangelo, 43, is also married with three children.
Coladangelo is communications director at Oliver Bonas, the fashion and lifestyle store founded by her husband Oliver Tress.
She is also a director and major shareholder at lobbying firm Luther Pendragon, which offers clients a “deep understanding of the mechanics of government”.
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Hancock secretly appointed Coladangelo to the Department of Health and Social Care as an unpaid adviser on a six-month contract in March last year.
It sparked claims of a "chumocracy" in November, when it also emerged she had accompanied Hancock to confidential meetings with civil servants and visited No 10.
Coladangelo's LinkedIn profile says she has been working at the department since September 2020 and was at Oxford University at the same time as the health secretary. She studied politics, philosophy and economics (PPE) at Oxford between 1995 and 1998, the same as Hancock.
A source told the Sunday Times last year: "Before Matt does anything big, he'll speak to Gina. She knows everything."
But her new role was not made public despite her getting access to £15,000 from the taxpayer.
Coladangelo has access to the Houses of Parliament due to gaining a pass in April and is also said to be bound by the Official Secrets Act.
The pass reportedly has her husband's surname on it, but she does not use it for her work. House of Lords peer Lord Bethell sponsored her for the pass.
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In 2012 she Coladangelo the Daily Mail how she had returned to work while being a mother.
She paid for a live-in nanny at their home in south-west London and worked flexible hours.
She said: "I don't worry about my children being closer to their nanny, because I spend as much time as I can with them.
"I would never dream of telling other mothers what to do with their lives. Every woman has to make her own choice.
"But I feel very fortunate in my education and believe those years shouldn't be wasted. I want to work to give something back."
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