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

[Itsamess8456]

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?

That’s quite sweet really considering

@Itsamess8456

I've always thought of yours ever, as an affectionate sign off - kind of to your family or partner. Perhaps my knowledge on English letter writing is lacking.

No, it’s somewhere in between. Too formal for close family. Too fond for for a formal professional relationship. It speaks of a certain amount of friendship or at least camaraderie. Whether that’s extant or just what Matt wants to project, who knows? (I know. )

@ThinWomansBrain

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.

He doesn’t think that. It’s all he’s willing to admit in public.

Yours Ever reads to me like an olde English love letter…

‘My darling I set sail in the morn, I pine for your love.

Yours ever

Lord Balderdash’

Yours ever doesn’t even make sense to me.

Ever Yours maybe.
Yours forever.

Same here Wheresmybiscuit.

Well, he couldn’t say, yours faithfully now, could he?

Yours, as ever..

I knew someone who signed letters "yours aye". I think it's a posh version of "yours" or "regards"

@EssexLioness

I initially read it as ‘love ‘em, Matt’ until I read the comments 😂 definitely thought that was an inappropriate sign off!

“Love ‘em and leave ‘em, Matt,” Boris reads, then looks back at his car-wreck life of women and children he’s left behind, with a single (VERY small, austerity-sized) tear in his eye. “I did, mate. I did,” he whispers.

@GlencoraP

He signed it Yours Ever , very common way to sign letters

Where? I'm English born and bred, and never seen it

@GlencoraP

He signed it Yours Ever , very common way to sign letters

Wow, Ive never actually heard of "Yours Ever" to sign off a letter!!! (wanders off to ponder my education......)

Simply cannot believe people have never heard of Yours Ever. Amazing!!!

www.lexico.com/definition/yours_ever hope that link works

@Medievalist

Simply cannot believe people have never heard of Yours Ever. Amazing!!!

Nope, never heard it, but there is the definition now (above this)

I thought it was LOVES EVA
MATTY.

idioms.thefreedictionary.com/yours+ever You learn something new every day

I've never heard of it in the capacity.

I read it as yours, as ever... which is quite romantic.

If you've not watch Hamilton, listen to Take a Break- the comma is important!

It's very common in letters between Ministers. They are always topped and tailed personally by the "author" (who rarely writes their own letters) and most of the time end informally like that.

As ever yours, I understand.

Yours ever still seems backwards.

@IncessantNameChanger

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

I had a colleague that did this recently when she left - what she didn't realise was that the recipient had set his emails to have a black background so it came up along with the rest of the email

@MyFloorIsLava

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

Wow - what a fabulous response 🤣🤣🤣

Although Johnson backed Hancock staying initially, it there was any truth behind the recent whatsapp leaked by Cummings, does Johnson really want Hancock as "his" forever?
More of a threat than a promise maybe.

*"if", not "it"

@MyFloorIsLava

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

Best comment ever.