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Isabel Oakeshott hangs up on Times Radio during heated interview

Journalist’s decision to share Matt Hancock WhatsApp texts with rival outlet questioned by Cathy Newman

The Guardian - UK

Hancock leaks reveal WhatsApp risks – information commissioner

The widespread use of WhatsApp by ministers and officials in Whitehall risks poses risks for transparency, the Information Commissioner has warned.

The Independent UK

Matt Hancock's 41-hour battle to save career after Gina Coladangelo affair revealed

Disgraced former Health Secretary Matt Hancock scrambled to save his political career in the hours after footage of him kissing aide Gino Coladangelo during the Covid pandemic

Daily Mirror

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‘How bad are the pics?’: Messages show Hancock’s reaction after Gina Coladangelo affair revealed

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

Evening Standard

Matt Hancock messages show reaction after images of clinch with Gina Coladangelo were leaked

More leaked WhatsApp comments put former health secretary under further scrutiny

Wales Online

'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

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

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Did Boris Johnson ‘follow the science’ on Covid? He couldn’t even do the maths

Leaked WhatsApps reveal his ignorance needing constant correction by advisers, says Kit Yates, director of the Centre for Mathematical Biology at the University of Bath

The Guardian - UK

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.

Evening Standard

Ouch! Have I Got News for You’s brutal joke about Hancock WhatsApp ‘betrayal’

Former health secretary had called the leak a ‘massive betrayal’

The Independent UK

WhatsApp revenge porn bully caught with hundreds of pounds of 'Superman' tablets

Shazaib Shafqat previously sent his ex's sexual images to her family and friends on WhatsApp

Liverpool Echo

Voters demand immediate public inquiry into handling of Covid pandemic

A poll for GB News reveals support for speeding-up the probe chaired by Baroness Hallett, following disclosures in the "Lockdown Files" - a leaked cache of Matt Hancock's WhatsApp messages

Daily Mirror

Matt Hancock blasts 'massive betrayal' from Isabel Oakeshott as further leaked WhatsApp messages emerge

The former Health Secretary is faced with a political storm after a litany of his pandemic-era WhatsApp conversations were published

Chronicle Live

Was Isabel Oakeshott wrong to leak Matt Hancock’s WhatsApps? Time will tell

Can you ever trust a journalist? The question is whether the material justified the leak, says the media consultant David Banks

The Guardian - UK

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The Street

Mark Zuckerberg Quietly Buries the Metaverse

The CEO of social-media giant Meta has sworn by AI, popularized by the chatbot ChatGPT.

Evening Standard

OPINION - The Standard View: Before we move on from Covid-19, we must learn its lessons

Before we move on from Covid-19, we must learn the lessons of it. Tens of thousands of leaked WhatsApp messages only underline the importance of getting to the facts of the matter as quickly and thoroughly as possible. That is what the independent public inquiry must do.

The Independent UK

Isabel Oakeshott says Hancock leaks ‘in public interest’ despite criticism

The journalist said she makes ‘no apology whatsoever for acting in the national interest’ over her disclosure of Matt Hancock’s WhatsApp messages.

Evening Standard

Matt Hancock ‘sent menacing message’ over leaked texts as row grows

You’ve made ‘a big mistake’ says former Health Secretary as he hits out at reporter’s ‘breach of trust and betrayal’

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Evening Standard

Matt Hancock ‘hugely disappointed and sad’ after WhatsApp messages released

The former health secretary has accused journalist Isabel Oakeshott of a ‘massive betrayal’.

The Independent UK

Hancock ‘hugely disappointed and sad’ after WhatsApp messages sent to newspaper

The former health secretary has accused journalist Isabel Oakeshott of a ‘massive betrayal’.

The Guardian - UK

Thursday briefing: Will Hancock’s WhatsApp scandal change Westminster?

In today’s newsletter: while it’s unclear whether he broke any rules, it doesn’t look good for the former health secretary. Will campaigners’ calls for more regulation around ministers’ use of messaging apps finally be answered?

Daily Mirror

Matt Hancock sent journalist 'menacing message' at 1am after WhatsApp story came out

Journalist Isabel Oakeshott said it was clear that Matt Hancock was not happy after she gave him no advance notice about leaking his private WhatsApp exchanges and added he sent her a 'menacing text'. Mr Hancock denied this claim

Daily Mirror

The key questions about Matt Hancock's private Covid messages that still need answering

The messages raise further serious questions about why ministers during the Covid pandemic failed to protect care home residents and why the testing regime was dogged by failures

The Independent UK

WhatsApp leak first skirmish of battle that will last all year

Political legacies at stake as Tory big-hitters give their version of pandemic response

Evening Standard

Labour demands Covid inquiry report ‘by end of year’ after leak of Hancock WhatsApps

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

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