Matt Hancock’s wife was spotted tonight clutching her phone and still wearing her wedding ring after he announced on Twitter that he had resigned as Health Secretary.
His resignation came the day after video footage emerged of him kissing an aide in his ministerial office in a breach of coronavirus restrictions.
Martha Hancock, 44, has maintained a dignified silence since images, and a subsequent video, were released showing her husband kissing his married aide Gina Coladangelo at the Department for Health in May.
The Health Secretary’s wife of 15 years has remained in the capital with their daughter and two sons, while Mr Hancock is believed to be staying at the family’s home in his West Suffolk constituency.
She was spotted in London walking down the street with a friend holding her phone while still wearing a wedding ring, shortly after her disgraced husband sent a letter of resignation to Prime Minister Boris Johnson, and posted a video message to Twitter.
Earlier today, Mrs Hancock was pictured being comforted by her mother at her London home amid an outpouring of sympathy amid her husband’s scandal.
Mrs Hancock was out on a walk with her mother Victoria Hoyer Millar, 70, when the latter threw her arms around her distraught daughter’s shoulders.
The osteopath and her antique-dealer mother were then seen linking arms as they strolled around north-west London.
Hours earlier, a bouquet of flowers was delivered to the London house. While a note could be seen poking out of the arrangement – which was placed on the doorstep by a delivery man – it is not clear who they were from.
