Mr Sunak is said to be teased about his height by colleagues, and recently posed with his Treasury team on a flight of stairs, apparently to distract from his 5ft 6in frame. Matt Hancock will be played by Andrew Buchan, who previously played grieving father Mark Latimer in ITV's Broadchurch and who has even been suggested as a possible James Bond. While Mr Hancock has never been tipped as a future 007, the 42-year-old actor is 5ft 10in – 3in taller than the Health Secretary, also 42. By contrast, in a poll of 2,000 users of the adultery website Illicit Encounters, Mr Hancock emerged in second place for least-sexy male MP. The 36-year-old actor previously played Brian, a drunk gay man who hates Margaret Thatcher, in the 2014 film Pride set during the miners' strike.

Source: The Nation March 28, 2021 09:45 UTC