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18. Matt Hancock and "Chumocracy"
Episode 18
Monday, 28 June, 2021
WIGO is back! After a brief hiatus (mainly due to the pubs re-opening) Jack is joined by Kieran for the opening of the third season of What is Going On. And what a week to return! The duo discuss the recent resignation of Matt Hancock as Health Secretary after it was revealed he was having an affair with an aide and broke social distancing rules, that he had imposed on the nation, doing so. The two mull over the charge that we are living in a "chumocracy"; where well connected friends of ministers win NHS contracts and secret lovers end up employed at the Department of Health. The second segment of the episode deals with the recent discovery of classified Ministry of Defence documents behind a bus stop in Kent and the hosts examine why there is currently so much tension between the UK and Russian governments.
