Hypocritical. Grim. Probably unlawful. (We are advised) probably challengable. But I don't think Hancock can survive this. And there's more than enough important work for @GoodLawProject to do elsewhere.
"Why unlawful?" some are asking? THREAD
He appointed Ms Coladangelo as a non-executive director of DHSC in September 2020. The role entitles her to substantial payments from public funds.
The relationship is reported to have begun or have been on-going in early 2020 (i.e. before Ms Coladangelo’s appointment as a non-executive director of DHSC.)
Insofar as the Secretary of State had any involvement in the appointment process, the process and appointment decision was vitiated by actual bias (which could very well be a criminal offence.)
In any event, because of the facts stated above, the decision was unlawful because of apparent bias.
And, in in appointing Ms Coladangelo, Matt Hancock had regard (whether consciously or unconsciously) to irrelevant considerations.
Those are the arguments we would have raised and we believe they are pretty powerful.
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