Gina Coladangelo attended dinners with the previous well being secretary and his US counterpart whereas he was in a relationship along with her and earlier than his spouse came upon after pictures of them embracing have been printed.

Matt Hancock took his mistress to non-public dinners with the US well being secretary then altered a ministerial response to take away options he invited her, leaked messages have revealed.

The newest revelation from greater than 100,000 WhatsApp messages leaked to the Telegraph exhibits a dialog between Mr Hancock’s former political adviser, Allan Nixon, and the previous well being secretary.

Gina Coladangelo, who Mr Hancock was having an affair with, attended two dinners with him at a G7 summit of well being ministers held in Oxford a couple of month after their relationship began.

She was appointed a non-executive director of the Department of Health and Social care (DHSC) in September 2020, eight months earlier than the pair began seeing one another in early May 2021.

Journalist Isabel Oakeshott stated she leaked the messages within the pursuits of “public interest” after Mr Hancock handed them to her as she helped him write his Pandemic Diaries e-book.

The newest messages, revealed on Sunday, present Ms Coladangelo was invited to the dinners as Mr Hancock’s visitor with Xavier Becerra, US well being secretary, on 3 and 4 June at Mansfield College, Oxford University.

After Mr Hancock was compelled to resign over the affair in late June 2021 when CCTV footage was printed of them kissing in his workplace, Labour MP Ben Bradshaw requested what position Ms Coladangelo performed on the G7 assembly and what bills she claimed.

Allan Nixon, Mr Hancock’s former political adviser who had stayed on at DHSC to assist Sajid Javid take over, had a WhatsApp dialog with Mr Hancock suggesting how he ought to reply the query.

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In the primary trade, Mr Nixon appeared to have scribbled out a printed reply and instructed one other in biro.

The authentic instructed reply stated: “Gina Coladangelo attended the G7 Health Ministers’ Meeting at the request of the previous Secretary of State, for the Department of Health and Social Care.”

But Mr Nixon wrote this ought to be modified to: “Gina Coladangelo played an advisory role to the Secretary of State at the G7 meeting.”

Mr Hancock then instructed an extra model that erased any hyperlink to him: “Gina Coladangelo attended the G7 in her role as a non-executive director of DHSC.”

The remaining response, printed on 28 October 2021, eliminated any reference to Mr Hancock or the DHSC by title.

“Gina Coladangelo attended the G7 health ministers’ meeting as a part of the UK delegation,” it learn.

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In response to the query about bills, Mr Hancock had needed it to say “zero” however Mr Nixon stated this was overruled by Sir Chris Wormald, DHSC’s everlasting secretary.

Mr Hancock stated it was true she incurred no bills and warned: “This will be another s*** show if it goes wrong.”

The remaining reply learn: “All travel and subsistence costs were covered as part of the Department’s overall booking. Ms Coladangelo did not claim any additional expenses.”

Sky News understands Matt Hancock believes it’s regular for parliamentary inquiries to be amended, with ministers doing so continuously.

Sources near him stated it’s outrageous to counsel he did something improper and the response was cheap and correct.

The revelation got here a day after the Telegraph launched messages exhibiting Mr Hancock and others discussing how one can use the Kent COVID variant to scare the general public so they might obey the principles in December 2020.

Mr Hancock advised aides he needed to “frighten the pants off everyone” to make sure restriction compliance.

Another set of messages was revealed this week exhibiting Mr Hancock’s former aide referred to as Boris Johnson’s senior adviser Dominic Cummings a “f***ing piece of s***”.

Jamie Njoku-Goodwin made the comment in March 2021 after Mr Cummings described the DHSC as having been lowered to a “smoking ruin” by the pandemic throughout a parliamentary committee listening to.

He additionally referred to as him a “psychotherapist” earlier than rapidly correcting the typo to: “Psychopath.”