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Leaked messages appear to show former Chancellor Rishi Sunak and shamed ex-Health Secretary Matt Hancock were at loggerheads during the pandemic over the extent of Tory lockdown measures

It is an iron rule of journalism – probably the first lesson that a rookie reporter learns on joining a professional newsroom: never betray a confidential source. A core principle of the National Union of Journalists code of conduct states that a journalist “protects the identity of sources who supply…

Sir Peter Fahy said 'constant confusion' caused 'huge resentment' in policing

'The plod got their marching orders'

To lock down, to not lock down, when, for how long, what tier and what level of financial support, masks at school, outside, or only on crowded undergrounds? This was where debate raged during the pandemic. In every home, on What’s App, over Zoom, between colleagues and family, doctors and…

Matt Hancock and senior officials discussed the need to ‘get heavy’ with the police over enforcing lockdown measures, leaked messages show.

Kate Garraway clashed with Isabel Oakeshott on Good Morning Britain today, as the journalist explained her decision to leak Matt Hancock's WhatsApp messages

In today’s newsletter: The journalist who ghostwrote Matt Hancock’s pandemic memoir – then exposed over 100,000 texts he entrusted to her

Conversations between the former health secretary and Cabinet Secretary Simon Case have come to light

Leaked messages from ex-health secretary Matt Hancock suggested Whitehall concern over enforcement of lockdown restrictions.

Piers Morgan has claimed that former Health Secretary Matt Hancock had wanted to celebrate him being axed from Good Morning Britain during the pandemic