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Here is a round-up of some of the more interesting comment on Matt Hancock’s resignation, and his replacement by Sajid Javid, from today’s papers and blogs.
Why is personal character now so irrelevant, when it used to be what really mattered? Read the ministerial code and nearly all of it is a joke: of the seven principles of public life, Hancock has breached every one in this incident alone. No “high standards of behaviour” for him; no being “professional” with colleagues; no being transparent about the people who…