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MATT Hancock is arrogant and lacks emotional intelligence, his telly SAS instructor has claimed.

Ex-Special Forces hero Jason Fox said it did not take long for the former Health Secretary to rile the team on Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins.

Jason Fox said Matt Hancock is arrogant and lacks emotional intelligence
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Jason Fox said Matt Hancock is arrogant and lacks emotional intelligenceCredit: Channel 4

Hancock made it to the final episode of the series last year before being culled, with the instructors saying they “didn’t trust him enough”.

Fox told the Monday Mile podcast: “The slate was wiped clean but it didn’t take long for him to p*** us off.

“If someone’s going to crank us up then we’ll f***ing go with that.”

He added: “He’s academically a very clever person.

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"Emotionally, I don’t think he’s as intelligent [but] you ask him to do something and he puts 110 per cent effort into it.

“He still came across as arrogant.

"Whether he meant to or not doesn’t matter.

"He did and because of that we just didn’t trust him enough to understand or know who he really was"

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