Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer on Wednesday called for the Covid inquiry to be ready to “report by the end of this year” as a row raged over leaked messages sent by Matt Hancock in the early weeks of the pandemic.
A Telegraph investigation of more than 100,000 WhatsApp messages involving the then-Health Secretary in 2020 has sparked claims he rejected clinical advice to give Covid tests to all residents going into care homes in England.
