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Downing Street won't rule out Covid having started in a Wuhan lab leak

The Prime Minister's spokesman said the theory remains 'on the table'

Wales Online · Mar 10, 2023

Tory MP reported to parliamentary watchdog over alleged lobbying rule breach

Steve Brine reported to watchdog by Anneliese Dodds

The Independent UK · Mar 9, 2023

Tory MP Steve Brine faces lobbying questions after Hancock message leak

Chair of health committee was said to have tried to persuade the NHS to hire anaesthetists through firm he worked for

The Guardian - UK · Mar 9, 2023

Steve Brine: Tory health committee chair faces calls to step down over lobbying claims

The Telegraph said leaked messages showed Steve Brine tried to contact the head of the NHS on behalf of a firm he worked for

Evening Standard · Mar 8, 2023

Health committee chair faces calls to step down over lobbying claims

The Telegraph said leaked messages showed Steve Brine tried to contact the head of the NHS on behalf of a firm he worked for.

The Independent UK · Mar 8, 2023

Simon Case: how the ‘killjoy’ cabinet secretary threw his ex-boss Boris Johnson under the bus

The UK’s most senior civil servant, 44, has denied that anyone gave Johnson reassurances that the Covid rules were followed during Partygate — so what does this mean for his career? Katie Strick reports

Evening Standard · Mar 8, 2023

The lesson from Matt Hancock’s WhatsApps is this: these clowns can’t govern, their only skill is covering tracks

Rightwing editorial agendas shaped the narrative of the Lockdown Files, but what they really showed was bunglers bungling in secret, writes the Guardian columnist Zoe Williams

The Guardian - UK · Mar 8, 2023

‘Keir Starmer just ordered an alpaca airstrike!’ The game that holds up a dystopian mirror to the UK

Dan Douglas started Duke Smoochem as a Twitter joke. Now the project has spiralled into an epic portrait of a declining nation – with everyone from Matt Hancock to GB News in its satirical crosshairs

The Guardian - UK · Mar 8, 2023

Politicos set their WhatsApp messages to delete after Matt Hancock leak

The Londoner notices that more than one politician has their messages on a default timer

Evening Standard · Mar 8, 2023

Cabinet secretary Simon Case ‘considers quitting’ as more embarrassing WhatsApps expected

‘He’ll have to go’: Some of top No 10 official’s Covid-era messages said to be ‘extraordinary’

The Independent UK · Mar 8, 2023