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Hancock messages claimed Sunak ‘would have pressured Johnson’ to avoid lockdown

Former health secretary also discusses patients discharged to care homes during second day at Covid inquiry

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Messages sent by Matt Hancock said Rishi Sunak would have put “enormous pressure” on Boris Johnson not to have an autumn lockdown in 2020 in what would have meant not enough was being done to halt the spread of coronavirus, the Covid-19 inquiry has heard.

The accusation was contained in a WhatsApp message that Hancock, then the health secretary, sent at a time when ministers and advisers were discussing the need for a second national lockdown.

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