Former well being secretary Matt Hancock has returned to Westminster as he will get again to the day job following his stint on a actuality TV present.
The MP was booted out of the Conservative parliamentary occasion after he revealed he was participating in I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! and it isn’t but clear if he’ll get the whip again.
He now sits because the unbiased MP for West Suffolk and is again within the Houses of Parliament as he prepares to current a invoice calling for dyslexia screening in each major college and improved trainer coaching.
It would be the second studying of the invoice, which is third on Friday’s order paper and is anticipated to be debated later.
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Mr Hancock, who completed third within the present after being voted to participate in a raft of bushtucker trials, claimed elevating consciousness of dyslexia was one of many most important causes he entered the Australian jungle, in addition to to indicate the human facet of politicians.
When within the camp with 10 different celebrities, he additionally stated he hoped for “forgiveness”.
But he has confronted fierce criticism from fellow MPs and the broader public for doing the present whereas parliament is sitting, and over whether or not it was applicable after the numerous function he performed within the authorities’s dealing with of COVID.
It was additionally revealed this week that the MP had been paid £45,000 to seem on Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins shortly earlier than going to Australia.
Mr Hancock’s return to work coincides with the primary excerpt of his pandemic diaries being revealed within the Daily Mail.
In it, the ex-minister claims the Ministry of Justice put ahead a plan to launch “thousands” of prisoners days earlier than the nation went into lockdown amid issues concerning the unfold of the virus.
In a diary entry on 17 March 2020, he wrote: “A bonkers proposal from the Ministry of Justice to let prisoners out, as they’d be easier to manage if they’re not in prison.
“Yes, actually: they really thought this could be a goer. I used to be emphasising [my opposition] so exhausting that abruptly my chair may take the pressure now not and ripped, tipping me unceremoniously on to the ground.'”
He later claimed that the then-justice secretary Sir Robert Buckland had been informed by the justice division it was Mr Hancock pushing for the releases.
“Unfortunately, this still wasn’t the end of the matter,” he wrote. “Clearly someone in Whitehall still thought it was a good idea and kept pushing it, to the point that the PM asked to talk to us both. I made my views crystal clear.”
A Ministry of Justice spokesperson stated: “His Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) moved to protect the NHS during the pandemic through the limited release of a very small number of low-level, tagged and risk-assessed prisoners just weeks before they were due to leave prison anyway.
“This was profitable in avoiding the hundreds of jail deaths predicted by Public Health England.”
The newspaper also published the prologue to Mr Hancock’s diaries, where he wrote: “I’m pleased with what we achieved, particularly on the vaccine.
“But there is much to learn for the next public health crisis of this kind, which I am sure will happen in my lifetime.”
Source: information.sky.com”