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‘Massive betrayal’: Matt Hancock hits out at Isabel Oakeshott in first statement since WhatsApp leak

‘I’m not going to get involved in a slanging match with Matt Hancock’, says journalist who leaked messages

The Independent UK · Mar 2, 2023

Isabel Oakeshott says Matt Hancock sent her a ‘menacing message’

Mr Hancock denied sending the journalist a menacing message

Evening Standard · Mar 2, 2023

Gavin Williamson 'accused teachers of looking for excuse not to work' according to leaked WhatsApp messages

Matt Hancock said teaching unions were 'a bunch of absolute arses' in messages

Wales Online · Mar 2, 2023

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Gavin Williamson said teaching unions ‘really hate work’ in message to Matt Hancock, WhatsApp leaks reveal

Hancock called teaching unions ‘bunch of absolute arses’

The Independent UK · Mar 2, 2023

Hancock in clash over schools opening during Covid, according to leak

Messages highlighted by The Telegraph suggest the then health secretary wanted ‘rearguard action’ against the then education secretary.

The Independent UK · Mar 1, 2023

Devastated Covid families say Matt Hancock WhatsApp messages 'twist knife' in wounds

Bereaved relatives have told of their fury after Matt Hancock's bombshell texts on testing were leaked. Matt Forest, whose mum died of Covid, said the former Health Secretary 'betrayed' his mother

Daily Mirror · Mar 1, 2023

Journalist claims Matt Hancock sent her ‘menacing’ messages over WhatsApp leak

‘I think you can easily surmise whether Matt Hancock is my friend at this point,’ says Isabel Oakeshott

The Independent UK · Mar 1, 2023

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Matt Hancock sent journalist 'menacing message' at 1am after WhatsApp story came out

Journalist Isabel Oakeshott said it was clear that Matt Hancock was not happy after she gave him no advance notice about leaking his private WhatsApp exchanges and added he sent her a 'menacing text'. Mr Hancock denied this claim

Daily Mirror · Mar 1, 2023

The key questions about Matt Hancock's private Covid messages that still need answering

The messages raise further serious questions about why ministers during the Covid pandemic failed to protect care home residents and why the testing regime was dogged by failures

Daily Mirror · Mar 1, 2023

Ministers rally behind Covid inquiry after Hancock WhatsApp revelations

Government seeks to bolster confidence in public investigation amid claims process will take too long

The Guardian - UK · Mar 1, 2023

WhatsApp leak first skirmish of battle that will last all year

Political legacies at stake as Tory big-hitters give their version of pandemic response

The Independent UK · Mar 1, 2023

Who is Isabel Oakeshott? The journalist who leaked disgraced Matt Hancock messages

Isabel Oakeshott leaked messages, which suggested the ex Health Secretary was told in April 2020 there should be "testing of all going into care homes"

Daily Mirror · Mar 1, 2023

Gavin Williamson said teaching unions ‘just hate work’ during Covid pandemic

Former education secretary said to have made comments in leaked WhatsApp exchanges to Matt Hancock, then health secretary

The Guardian - UK · Mar 1, 2023

Spent Sunak and scattergun Starmer off their game in autopilot PMQs

Rish! drags himself to dispatch box but no sign of that other man of the moment, Matt Hancock

The Guardian - UK · Mar 1, 2023

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Evening Standard · Mar 1, 2023

OPINION - Matt Hancock accused of rejecting care home testing advice

Before we begin, I ought to declare an interest: I have for many years defended Matt Hancock. As health secretary, he made significant errors in his handling of the pandemic, not least the way in which Covid was allowed to spread into residential care homes in the spring of 2020.…

Evening Standard · Mar 1, 2023

Labour demands Covid inquiry report ‘by end of year’ after leak of Hancock WhatsApps

Sunak urges people not to focus on ‘piecemeal bits of information’ and to let the inquiry ‘get on with the job’

The Guardian - UK · Mar 1, 2023

Minister rejects claim Matt Hancock ignored advice on Covid testing

Helen Whately defends ex-colleague while answering urgent question in Commons after leak of messages

Daily Mirror · Mar 1, 2023

Jane Moore clashes with Coleen Nolan as she defends Matt Hancock over Covid WhatsApp leak

Jane Moore hit out at Coleen Nolan and the rest of the Loose Women panel as she argued the leaked Matt Hancock WhatsApp messages were in the "public interest"

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The Guardian - UK · Mar 1, 2023

Isabel Oakeshott: the journalist who turned over Matt Hancock

Ex-minister’s judgment questioned for trusting journalist who has long made clear her disdain for his lockdown policies

Evening Standard · Mar 1, 2023

Isabel Oakeshott: the political journalist who turned on Matt Hancock

The 48-year-old has long held conflicted feelings towards Hancock. Here’s how she went from helping him with his book to airing his dirty laundry

The Guardian - UK · Mar 1, 2023

Covid inquiry chair rejects journalist’s fear of ‘colossal whitewash’

Heather Hallett hits back at scepticism that Isabel Oakeshott says led her to share Matt Hancock messages

The Guardian - UK · Mar 1, 2023

What do Matt Hancock’s WhatsApp messages show? Not what the Telegraph wants us to see

The messages confirm what public health advisers knew: that during the Covid-19 pandemic ministers weren’t ‘following the science’ at all, says Prof Devi Sridhar

Daily Mirror · Mar 1, 2023

7 bombshell claims from Matt Hancock's leaked WhatsApp messages during Covid

A tranche of messages from the former Health Secretary and officials have been made public after he shared them with journalist Isabel Oakeshott who helped him write his pandemic memoir

Chronicle Live · Mar 1, 2023

Matt Hancock fighting claims that he rejected Covid advice from Chris Whitty after WhatsApp messages leak

More than 100,000 WhatsApp messages have been leaked, giving an insight into the way the Government operated at the height of the pandemic

The Independent UK · Mar 1, 2023

Isabel Oakeshott and NDAs at centre of Hancock care home testing row

The TalkTV presenter is no stranger to high-profile political rows.

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