Boris Johnson accepts Hancock’s apology for ‘kissing aide’ and ‘considers matter closed’

I think there is a legitimate distinction to be drawn between what people do in their private lives and what they do in their public lives. I’m not trying to make points about what people do as entirely private matters, but in the case of Mr Hancock it does seem to me that there are some issues that are of genuine public interest. I do think there are questions that need to be answered about whether those rules were broken, the social distancing rules. Mr Hancock himself was very quick to condemn a senior academic from Imperial College when he was found breaching those rules, so I think there are questions, legitimate public interest questions, to answer there. I think there are legitimate public interest questions to be answered about how individuals are appointed if they turn out to be in a different sort of relationship with the minister who was responsible for their appointment. Certainly here in Wales, I always expect the whole of our ministerial team to observe the rules that we expect other people to observe. You can’t make laws for other people and then not be willing to abide by them yourself.