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Hello and welcome to coffeehouse shots, the spectators daily and sometimes more than daily

politics podcast. I'm Katie Balls and I'm joined by Isabel Hardman and Fraser Nelson.

And we just had the news that Matt Hancock has resigned. Isabel, can you talk us through the shift since Friday when it's

seemed that number 10 was backing him?

Yeah, so at the Downing Street lobby briefing on Friday, the Prime Minister's spokesman was insisting that he had

accepted Matt Hancock's apology for breaking the coronavirus guidance and that he considered the matter

closed. And despite there being a lot of questions that were thrown at the spokesman, then his

insistence was that the matter was closed. And it was quite

obvious the matter wasn't closed because, as I say, there were a lot of questions about whether

actually Downing Street had sought assurances that he hadn't broken the law rather than just the

guidance, which is what Hancock and Downing Street were sticking to. There were also obviously

the questions about the appointment of Gina Coladangelo,

which number 10 said was done in the correct way. But there were questions about when this

relationship began, whether it was before her appointment as non-executive director, in which case

there was an issue around the integrity of that process, or whether it was after, in which case

it may have meant that he

had broken the ministerial code in terms of workplace relationships. And of course, it had a huge

amount of cut through all of us going about our daily business today, have noticed that people

have picked up on it. Katie, I think you heard 20-year-olds talking about it in the park.

Live on my hendoo. Whilst on your hendoo, let's just take a moment to celebrate Katie's commitments to this story.

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