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Oakeshott and Hancock: betraying a confidential source damages journalism and is a threat to public health

It is an iron rule of journalism – probably the first lesson that a rookie reporter learns on joining a professional newsroom: never betray a confidential source. A core principle of the National Union of Journalists code of conduct states that a journalist “protects the identity of sources who supply…

The Conversation · Mar 3, 2023

Kidnap survivor with PTSD during Covid livid at Matt Hancock's hotel quarantine jokes

Award winning journalist and refugee Zaina Erhaim has condemned messages sent by then health secretary Matt Hancock and Cabinet Secretary Simon Case about quarantine hotels

Daily Mirror · Mar 3, 2023

Sunak is the Michael Corleone of the Tory party – try as he might to break free, he’s up to his neck in it

The return of Boris Johnson, Matt Hancock and Partygate shows that, as the Godfather found, it’s almost impossible to escape past sins, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

The Guardian - UK · Mar 3, 2023

The 10 most excruciating leaked Matt Hancock WhatsApp messages

The more than 100,000 leaked texts shed light on the Government’s haphazard handling of the pandemic. Ethan Croft has combed through the data and dug out the most salacious

Evening Standard · Mar 3, 2023

Ministers’ confusion about Covid rules caused resentment among police – ex-chief

Matt Hancock and senior officials discussed the need to ‘get heavy’ with the police over enforcing lockdown measures, leaked messages show.

The Independent UK · Mar 3, 2023

GMB's Kate Garraway clashes with Isabel Oakeshott over Matt Hancock WhatsApp messages

Kate Garraway clashed with Isabel Oakeshott on Good Morning Britain today, as the journalist explained her decision to leak Matt Hancock's WhatsApp messages

Daily Mirror · Mar 3, 2023

Country’s most senior civil servant Simon Case mocked holidaymakers ‘locked up’ in Covid quarantine hotels

The UK’s most senior civil servant mocked travellers who were being “locked up” in quarantine hotels during the Covid pandemic, according to leaked WhatsApp messages published by the Telegraph.

Evening Standard · Mar 3, 2023

Airlines and airports ‘horribly self-serving’ during Covid, says top civil servant in leaked messages

‘I just want to see some of the faces of people coming out of first class and into a premier inn shoe box,’ Sir Simon Case joked of hotel quarantine

The Independent UK · Mar 3, 2023

Police and travel industry react angrily to Matt Hancock lockdown texts

Messages show Hancock urging ministers to ‘get heavy’ with police and making light of hotel quarantine situation

The Guardian - UK · Mar 3, 2023

Ouch! Have I Got News for You’s brutal joke about Hancock WhatsApp ‘betrayal’

Former health secretary had called the leak a ‘massive betrayal’

The Independent UK · Mar 3, 2023