Matt Hancock under pressure after claims he ignored Covid care home testing advice
Calls for ex-health secretary to publish WhatsApp messages as he dismisses claims as distorted'
More than 100,000 private WhatsApp messages involving Matt Hancock at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic have been leaked, including claims he dismissed expert advice to test anyone entering a care home for coronavirus at the start of the pandemic.
The former health secretary has issued a strong denial to the investigation by the Daily Telegraph, saying the private messages were stolen" and the interpretation of the messages was categorically untrue".
Hancock asking the then Evening Standard editor George Osborne, a former boss, to put testing on the front page of the newspaper in order to hit his targets.
Arrangements for a Covid test to be sent to Jacob Rees-Mogg's daughter during a shortage.
Warnings from the social care minister Helen Whately that restrictions on visitors to care homes are inhumane".
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