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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Sam Blewett

Matt Hancock considering all legal options over leaked WhatsApp messages on care home testing

PA Wire

Matt Hancock rejected advice to give coronavirus tests to all residents going into English care homes, an investigation based on a leaked trove of more than 100,000 WhatsApps alleges.

The MP denied the “distorted account” with a spokesman alleging the messages leaked by journalist Isabel Oakeshott after she worked on his Pandemic Diaries memoir have been “spun to fit an anti-lockdown agenda”.

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