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The Weekly Wrap for Saturday, 4 March 2023

In 2016, one of our first Weekly Wraps explored the stunned aftermath of the Brexit referendum. After years of institutional failure, diplomatic faux-pas, and bad-faith policy, we are pleased to finally be able to share a rare piece of positive Brexit news.

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Babatunde Aleshe reveals Matt Hancock is no longer in I’m A Celebrity group chat

The comedian lived alongside the disgraced politician in the Australian jungle as they took part in the ITV reality show.

Daily Record

Partygate rulebreaking would've been obvious to Boris Johnson - because he was THERE

Ex-PM Boris Johnson 'knew of law breaches' because he was THERE as MPs probing whether he lied to Parliament give damning verdict and new bashes come to light

Daily Mirror

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‘How bad are the pics?’: Messages show Hancock’s reaction after CCTV leak

The latest set of WhatsApp messages has emerged from the leak of more than 100,000,

The Independent UK

Babatunde Aleshe: Hancock no longer in I’m A Celeb group chat

Babatunde Aleshe has said Matt Hancock is no longer a member of the I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! group chat with his former campmates.

Evening Standard

Matt Hancock ‘hoped Covid could propel his career into next league’

Ex-health secretary used thousands of messages to edit social media output

The Independent UK

'Government's Covid shambles laid bare amid Matt Hancock's WhatsApp message mayhem'

Brian Reade says Matt Hancock's WhatsApp fiasco just confirms how incompetent the Tory Government - and he himself - were during the Covid-19 pandemic

Daily Mirror

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

Then health secretary tried to get support of then cabinet secretary, according to leaked WhatsApp texts

The Guardian - UK

Matt Hancock mocked Eat Out To Help Out amid concerns about spread of Covid-19

The former Health Secretary branded the scheme ‘eat out to help the virus get about’

Evening Standard

Latest WhatsApp leaks reveal Hancock and Sunak clashed over UK lockdown policy

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

Daily Mirror

Hancock mocked Eat Out To Help Out amid concerns about virus spread

Matt Hancock and Rishi Sunak clashed over the course of the pandemic on Covid restrictions and the Eat Out to Help Out scheme.

The Independent UK

Worst of Westminster: Red-faced Hancock and more Lee Anderson drama

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The National (Scotland)

Oakeshott and Hancock: betraying a confidential source damages journalism and is a threat to public health

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…

The Conversation

Kidnap survivor with PTSD during Covid livid at Matt Hancock's hotel quarantine jokes

Award winning journalist and refugee Zaina Erhaim has condemned messages sent by then health secretary Matt Hancock and Cabinet Secretary Simon Case about quarantine hotels

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The Guardian - UK

Sunak is the Michael Corleone of the Tory party – try as he might to break free, he’s up to his neck in it

The return of Boris Johnson, Matt Hancock and Partygate shows that, as the Godfather found, it’s almost impossible to escape past sins, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

Evening Standard

OPINION - Boris Johnson may have misled MPs over partygate – inquiry

News cycles are like cats – you can feed and generally treat them like kings, but they are never something you truly own. Still, on Monday afternoon when Rishi Sunak revealed the Windsor Framework reforming the Northern Ireland Protocol, he might have hoped to earn a full week of positive…

Manchester Evening News

Ministers did not understand their own lockdown rules, former GMP chief says

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

Manchester Evening News

Government wanted to 'get heavy' with police over Covid lockdown rules

'The plod got their marching orders'

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Evening Standard

OPINION - These WhatsApp leaks: yet again more heat than light on lockdowns

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…

Evening Standard

The 10 most excruciating leaked Matt Hancock WhatsApp messages

The more than 100,000 leaked texts shed light on the Government’s haphazard handling of the pandemic. Ethan Croft has combed through the data and dug out the most salacious

The Independent UK

Ministers’ confusion about Covid rules caused resentment among police – ex-chief

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

Daily Mirror

GMB's Kate Garraway clashes with Isabel Oakeshott over Matt Hancock WhatsApp messages

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

Evening Standard

Country’s most senior civil servant Simon Case mocked holidaymakers ‘locked up’ in Covid quarantine hotels

The UK’s most senior civil servant mocked travellers who were being “locked up” in quarantine hotels during the Covid pandemic, according to leaked WhatsApp messages published by the Telegraph.

The Independent UK

Airlines and airports ‘horribly self-serving’ during Covid, says top civil servant in leaked messages

‘I just want to see some of the faces of people coming out of first class and into a premier inn shoe box,’ Sir Simon Case joked of hotel quarantine

The Guardian - UK

Police and travel industry react angrily to Matt Hancock lockdown texts

Messages show Hancock urging ministers to ‘get heavy’ with police and making light of hotel quarantine situation

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