New leaked messages between Matt Hancock and officials show the then health secretary scrambling to save his career after footage emerged of his embrace with aide Gina Coladangelo.
They are among the latest set of WhatsApp correspondence to emerge from the leak of more than 100,000 messages by journalist Isabel Oakeshott to the Daily Telegraph.
The latest tranche to be published centre on the hours after Mr Hancock discovered that leaked footage from a camera in his office, showing him breaching social distancing rules, would appear in June 2021.
