It wasn’t the ‘snogging’ but the snub of social distancing that forced Britain’s health chief to resign

LONDON — In the end, it wasn’t the snogging, as Brits call smooching, with an aide that forced Britain’s most prominent pandemic official to resign Saturday. It was, his many critics claimed, the audacious hypocrisy: the sense that ordinary people must follow the rules of mask-wearing and social distancing even if the elite get to make out in government offices.