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Hello and welcome to the Saturday edition of Coffee House Shots. I'm Cindy Yu and I'm joined by

Fraser Nelson and Paul Staines from the Guido Forks blog. So after Matt Hancock's bombshell revelation of his affair,

we wanted to ask how much of politicians' private lives,

in particular their sex lives, are actually in the public interest,

and why do we care?

Fraser, maybe to start with, you can give us your first reaction

when you heard about Friday's news.

Right, well, I got an email from James

Versaith, I think 540 in the morning. Is that when you guys normally email each other?

Well, both James and I have kids, so we have to get up early in the morning and we sort of liaise

quite often. And I have to confess, my first instinct was okay, if Matt Hancock's had an affair,

then I don't really

see why we should touch the story. People's relationships go in funny kind of ways and I don't

want to intrude him on private grief because James emailed me saying what she would do about the

Matt Hancock affair. He didn't really save the circumstances. That's my first reaction.

Then I looked into it and found out she's on the staff. Then you find out that there's this clinch that was taken in defiance of the regulations he put down already. And then I thought that this actually does matter because I was always very concerned that the government has put into law

the social distancing guidelines. That hasn't really affected my life, but there are so many

young people who were literally banned by the government from holding hands with their boyfriend,

a girlfriend, from kissing, some spending of the night if you didn't live together.

And I couldn't believe, actually, that these laws

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