The third degree

Back page gossip from the 30 June issue of Research Fortnight

Innovation nation

There are so many intriguing details to l’affaire Matt Hancock, the scandal that saw the secretary of state for health and social care resign on 26 June for failing to observe social distancing guidelines in his office with aide Gina Coladangelo. These include the time he and the ministry’s paid non-executive director spent together at University of Oxford radio station Oxygen FM, and the fact that she is the niece of ex-Football Focus presenter Bob Wilson.