Lord Feldman, a former tennis partner of David Cameron, referred three businesses to ministers before they were given untendered contracts using a ‘VIP fast lane’.

The former health secretary is in talks with HarperCollins over a blow-by-blow account of ‘heated’ lockdown rows with ministers, aides, scientists and medics.

Mr Hancock, writing in The Daily Telegraph, warned ministers against delaying mandatory jabs for nurses and doctors. The Government is not expected to bring in the rule until April next year.

Video footage shot in Split, Croatia, last night shows the couple enjoying drinks at a romantic restaurant at the heart of the city as they appear to be on their second holiday abroad in as many months.

A friend of Matt and Martha Hancock has blasted the former health secretary for his conduct since his affair with his aide Gina Coladangelo was exposed in June.

The former UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock is understood to be in regular contact with Gina Coladangelo – but they are not yet living together.

Former UK Health Secretary gathered an assortment of boxes, suitcases and clothes in bin bags from his former marital home – as the family dog looked on forlornly.

Boris Johnson’s office last night backed the freedom of the press after two homes were raided in a probe into the leak of CCTV footage that exposed Matt Hancock’s affair.

Hours after CCTV footage of the clinch emerged the Prime Minister’s spokesman said Mr Johnson considered the ‘matter closed’ and had ‘full confidence’ in Mr Hancock.