 That's right. The man you can never unsee groping that bottom, in that office, on CCTV, wants you to believe he's on a moral crusade in Australia – as though eating a plate of kangaroo anuses 9,000 miles away is somehow an act of public service. If you absolutely must lower the tone and mention the money, Hancock is extremely keen to casually stress that he's donating an unspecified fraction of his £400,000 ITV appearance fee to a hospice in his local constituency. As a palliative care doctor myself, I struggle with the notion of a serving MP trying to sweeten public opinion towards his money-grabbing stunts by broadcasting to the nation his apparent generosity. We all know how zealously Shell, Esso and the other big oil firms try to greenwash their brands, but Hancock has taken this to new depths of distastefulness. He's actually attempting to 'deathwash' his primetime ITV slot – using patients at the ends of their){kind=link}
Don’t believe a word that comes out of the failed health secretary’s mouth, says guest columnist Dr Rachel Clarke. I’m a Celebrity is not a moral crusade… this half-human simply couldn’t resist cashing in on his infamy
The depths to which Matt ÂHancock is willing to sink really do know no bounds.
The disgraced former health secretary may be gagging at the thought of his next Bushtucker Trial, but his antics down under are making the rest of us sick. It’s not even all that gushing and gurning at the I’m A Celebrity cameras â it’s the Âbrazenness of his fake sincerity that makes me want to heave my guts up.
Wide-eyed, warm-hearted Matt insists he’s embarked on his three-week televised jaunt in the jungle not for the money but out of patriotic duty.
“It’s as clear as day that politicians like me must go to where the people are â particularly those who are Âpolitically disengaged,” he said last week. “We must wake up and embrace popular culture.”