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UK government accused of hypocrisy as health minister quits

by Sylvia Hui
| June 27, 2021 8:30 AM

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s health secretary has resigned after a tabloid splashed photos and videos of him kissing an aide in his office — breaking the same coronavirus social distancing rules he imposed on the nation.

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