Matt Hancock is back – and he’s reinvented himself as a trust guru!
The former health secretary, little seen since stepping down as an MP in 2024, has most recently been running a North Wales-based direct mail company, but is now dipping his toe back into public life with his ruminations on trust.
The 47-year-old, who resigned after being caught on CCTV with his hands on his advisor’s bottom in breach of Covid regulations, is a star speaker at Nudgestock, “the world’s leading festival of behavioural science, creativity and ideas”, taking place in London in September. Hancock, who has since founded a healthcare firm, Havilland, will give a talk titled ‘The nation’s trust in your hands’ reflecting on his time in office giving PPE contracts to pub landlords.
“What happens when public trust is in your hands?” asks the website for the event. “Matt Hancock, former Secretary of State for Health, will explore the complex relationship between trust, power, and data: what it means to hold the driving seat at a defining moment, and why learning to trust data is the foundation of how we will manage our own health over the coming decade.”
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The event is the brainchild of Ogilvy, the PR firm widely cited as an inspiration for the TV show Mad Men. Apart from listening to the sage advice of Hancock, attendees can also see the company’s vice chairman Rory Sutherland being interviewed on stage by Louis Theroux in what might not be one of the broadcaster’s more penetrating interviews.
The cost of this one-day event? £600 – or just £500 if you snap up a ticket before the end of July. Cheap at twice the price!
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