UK health secretary quits after breach of COVID-19 measures

(MENAFN - Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)) LONDON, June 26 (KUNA) -- British Health Secretary Matt Hancock resigned on Saturday in the wake of leaked images which showed him breaching COVID-19 restrictions."We owe it to people who have sacrificed so much in this pandemic to be honest when we have let them down as I have done by breaching the guidance," he said in his resignation letter addressed to the prime minister.The move comes after calls were made within the country and the secreteray's own Conservative party for him to step down in response to the revelations. (end) mrn.sd MENAFN26062021000071011013ID1102348914