Truth or lies? Matt Hancock auctioned off a signed Newcastle United shirt three years ago, but was seen wearing it in a very recent video clip. Was it really handed straight back to him by the buyer, as his spokesperson claims?

An explanation has been offered but that won’t stop Matt Hancock getting into trouble for it.

The former Health Secretary, who has been accused of being involved in the waste of £600 million on useless contracts for Personal Protective Equipment during the Covid-19 crisis, allegedly sold off his Newcastle United football shirt to raise cash for – you guessed it – ‘scrubs’ for NHS staff.

Now he has been seen wearing it in a video he made about his joy at seeing his team go to Wembley for the first time in years (to lose, in the final of the Carabao Cup, to Manchester United).

Shades of ‘Seatbelt Sunak’!

Some have said the person who bought the shirt at the auction then donated it straight back to Hancock. But then, why didn’t they just make a donation for the equipment?

And why is this the first we’ve heard of that transaction in three years? I would have thought that such an act of generosity would have been worth mentioning in any news reports of the auction.

But this is a man who can’t do anything right. If he’d simply mentioned the shirt’s history, he could have avoided this… but it probably never occurred to him.

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