To think it's weird how Matt Hancock signed his resignation letter?

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Just read MH's resignation letter - which was addressed to Boris Johnson. Does this say "Yours ever"??? Isn't this a peculiar signing off of professional letter to your boss?

Excellent funny responses to this thread!

Yours ever

Better than ATB.

It's nit difficult to understand is it.

Every day is a school day.

When you went to a sink comp anyway!

‘Your ever’ very common in professional circles among colleagues , particularly between men I have noticed. Less formal than ‘sincerely’ or ‘faithfully’ , more formal than ‘best wishes’ recognises length of association more than ‘kind regards’

I stick with my earlier interpretation then.😉

I've seen Yours Ever on political resignation letters and responses before, think it's quite common in those circles.

Yours ever is just an old fashioned way of signing off letters to someone you know well.

Here is Sajid's letter for comparison- same phrasing

Here!

Is it a hangover from something like. Ever your obedient servant or something?

It seems very informal to me, but in my world where my boss for the first decade of my working life was "Mr Thomas" to the entire staff, it seems very odd that a Secretary of State should be universally referred to as "Matt".

Times have changed, apparently.

Yours ever is standard for this type of letter. It seems odd because it’s not really used for other correspondence that we see on a day to day basis.

Well he can hardly write yours sincerely, since any genuine sincerity causes the current government to burst into flames.

It’s completely standard phrasing.

It's standard wording among politicians, particularly those who know each other well, and indicative of a relationship of colleagues: the Cabinet is a collective of senior ministers in which the prime minister has sometimes been described as first among equals. It captures that collegiate relationship and standing with each other, even though the prime minister is the boss and ministerial appointments are his to give or take away.

He hated having to sign it so squiggled in protest.

Politicians always use ‘ever’ when writing to one another. Outside of public life it is a more informal way to sign off a letter between friends. Agree, however, that it slightly jars on a resignation letter going into the public domain from a disgraced former minister.

It's fine, it's like saying "your humble servant" but a bit more 2020s and a bit less humble.

Sod whether his sign off is weird!
Flabbergasted that he thinks the only reason he should resign is not adhering to social distancing.
Stuffing the NHS board, presumably there to advise/review his performance with his mistress/girlfriend/whatever hardly falls within the Nolan Principles of public life.
Then again, even if Hancock knows what they are, it's highly doubtful that Johnson does.

@Cam22

He hated having to sign it so squiggled in protest.

squiggling was what he was up to in May

I read it as love ewe 😂🙈

Could be "yours aye"

@stilldumdedumming I wondered that. If you read old letters they have this very wordy way of signing off "I remain Sir, ever your humble servant" type stuff.

I sign off all work emails with Regards. It's got zero bearing g on my regards for the recipient.

Now I'm on carer break it's just thanks. Or if you have pissed me off there is nothing but my first name.

I was told if someone really pisses me off I need to write a insult sign off in white font. Not done that yet