MATT Hancock is being tipped for a shock return to the Cabinet as the PM plots a summer reset reshuffle.
ボリス・ジョンソン is considering using Oliver Dowden’s bombshell departure as Tory Party chairman to overhaul his top team.
And senior sources suggested the former Health Secretary could end up back at the Cabinet table.
彼らは太陽に言った: “You can never write him off.”
It comes exactly a year after The Sun revealed that Mr Hancock had been having a secret affair with his aide during Covid.
He was caught snogging ジーナ・コラダンジェロ in his office on CCTV.
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The scandal sparked a massive public outcry and he eventually quit.
But the ambitious ex minister – who split from his wife and is now with Gina – is known to be desperate to get back into the Cabinet.
Pledging his loyalty to ボリス 昨日, he told Times Radio that he backs the PM and the party needs to “pull together” のために 総選挙.
Party sources said Boris is in no rush to appoint a successor to Mr Dowden.
ほとんどが政治で読まれます
On a reshuffle, 彼らは付け加えた: “Nothing like that is likely to happen until there is proper time to sit down and have a proper think about whether there’s a need, and if so, what is the need?
“And if so, what are the challenges for different departments and what the right people are in those departments to meet those challenges.
しかし、救急車のカバーに参加することを思い出させることはありません
“That’s a big, sober, professional piece of work that requires more time than is in the diary in the next few weeks.
“Recess kicks off at some point in July so there will be a time to come back to all these things in due course.”