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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Sam Blewett

Matt Hancock disputes ‘distorted’ leak over Covid care home testing

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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