Messages from his time as health secretary during the pandemic were leaked to the Daily Telegraph by the ghost writer of his book
Isabel Oakeshott, the journalist who handed over Matt Hancock’s private Covid WhatsApp messages (which she had seen when co-authoring his Pandemic Diaries) to the Daily Telegraph, has been giving interviews this morning.
On the Today programme, where she was interviewed at 7.10am, she said she would not be getting into a “slanging match” with Hancock. She said:
Do you know what I’m not going to do, because it wouldn’t be pretty, is get involved in a slanging match with Matt Hancock.
He can threaten me all he likes. There are plenty of things I can say about his behaviour, by the way, that I’m not going to do – at least not at this stage – because this is not about Matt Hancock. It is so much bigger than that.
What a ridiculous defence. For someone who’s as intelligent as Matt Hancock to issue a statement saying there is no public interest in these revelations is patently absurd. And he knows that very well.
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