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Former education secretary said to have made comments in leaked WhatsApp exchanges to Matt Hancock, then health secretary

An extraordinary war of words has erupted over events at the centre of government during the Covid pandemic after more than 100,000 of Matt Hancock’s Whatsapp messages were leaked.

Chief medical officer Chris Whitty told Johnson that there were “no strong reason against in corridors etc, and no very strong reasons for" introducing the masks.

Editorial: Selective leaks for partisan ends do not tell the whole story, but enough is already known to condemn the former health secretary

Rish! drags himself to dispatch box but no sign of that other man of the moment, Matt Hancock

Before we begin, I ought to declare an interest: I have for many years defended Matt Hancock. As health secretary, he made significant errors in his handling of the pandemic, not least the way in which Covid was allowed to spread into residential care homes in the spring of 2020.…

Sunak urges people not to focus on ‘piecemeal bits of information’ and to let the inquiry ‘get on with the job’

Helen Whately defends ex-colleague while answering urgent question in Commons after leak of messages

Jane Moore hit out at Coleen Nolan and the rest of the Loose Women panel as she argued the leaked Matt Hancock WhatsApp messages were in the "public interest"

While tests existed, scientists could not track size of outbreak, leaving vulnerable people unprotected

Ex-minister’s judgment questioned for trusting journalist who has long made clear her disdain for his lockdown policies