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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Nadeem Badshah

Matt Hancock ridiculed Sunak’s ‘eat out to help out’ scheme, messages show

Rishi Sunak and Matt Hancock pictured leaving Downing Street in 2019.
Rishi Sunak and Matt Hancock pictured leaving Downing Street in 2019. Photograph: Hannah McKay/Reuters

Matt Hancock expressed disdain for Rishi Sunak’s flagship Treasury initiative, “eat out to help out”, during the Covid pandemic, according to the latest cache of leaked WhatsApp messages.

The messages show the then health secretary also attempting to get the support of the then cabinet secretary, Simon Case, in challenging the stance of Sunak, who was the chancellor, and others over some pandemic-era rules.

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