UK health minister Matt Hancock resigns after breaking COVID-19 rules by kissing aide

Hancock was seen kissing the aide in his office last month, at a time when it was against the rules for people to have intimate contact with a person outside their household. He wrote to PM Boris Johnson to resign, saying he had let people down.

British health minister Matt Hancock quit on Saturday after he was caught breaking COVID-19 rules by kissing and embracing an aide in his office, enraging colleagues and the public who have been living under lockdown. In the latest scandal to rock a government that has overseen one of the highest official death tolls from the pandemic, Hancock wrote to Prime Minister Boris Johnson to resign, saying he had let people down. I have resigned as Health Secretary pic.twitter.com/eyWi1AA19i