Hancock messages claimed Sunak ‘would have pressured Johnson’ to avoid lockdown
by Ben Quinn Political Correspondent from World news | The Guardian on (#6GTAQ)
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Rishi Sunak put Boris Johnson under enormous pressure" not to introduce further Covid restrictions in autumn 2020, Matt Hancock wrote in a message at the time, which has been released to the pandemic inquiry.
In a WhatsApp message to the cabinet secretary, Simon Case, the then health secretary asked for information about a meeting on 30 October that he claimed he was blocked" from attending.
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