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Leaked Matt Hancock WhatsApp messages 'show he rejected expert advice on care home Covid testing'

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Matt Hancock rejected expert advice to test residents going into English care homes for Covid, leaked WhatsApp messages reportedly reveal.

However, the MP has 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”. Mr Hancock was said to be “considering all options” in response to the leak, with a source close to him telling the PA news agency: “She’s broken a legal NDA (non-disclosure agreement). Her behaviour is outrageous.”

The Telegraph has obtained conversations from 100,000 WhatsApp messages. They apparently show how then health secretary Hancock did not follow the advice of Chief Medical Office (CMO) Prof Sir Chris Whitty.

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