MATT Hancock won’t be commenting on reports of an affair with a departmental aide despite photographs showing he and Gina Coladangelo in a “steamy clinch”, friends have said.

The Sun newspaper published photographs appearing to show he and the taxpayer-funded adviser sharing a kiss.

Hancock has been warried to wife Martha for 15 years, and the couple have three children together.

Coladangelo, who is said to have met Hancock at university, is also married and has three children.

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A spokesperson for the UK Government said Coladangelo’s appointment as a non-executive director of the Department of Health and Social Care was made in the “usual way”, and no rules had been broken.

Grant Shapps, the UK Government Transport Secretary, described the story as a “personal matter”.

Labour are calling for the reports to be looked into to see if there are “conflicts of interest”.

The National:

This morning Hancock deleted an Instagram post, made yesterday, seeking more “brilliant women” to join his team.

The story read: “If you’re a woman who wants to get involved in politics swipe up.”

The post, which suggests Hancock was not aware that the story was going to come out, was removed from the platform shortly after 8.45am.