Article 69EC1 Matt Hancock ridiculed Sunak’s ‘eat out to help out’ scheme, messages show

Matt Hancock ridiculed Sunak’s ‘eat out to help out’ scheme, messages show

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Nadeem Badshah
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Then health secretary tried to get support of then cabinet secretary, according to leaked WhatsApp texts

Matt Hancock expressed disdain for Rishi Sunak's flagship Treasury initiative, eat out to help out", during the Covid pandemic, according to the latest cache of leaked WhatsApp messages.

The messages show the then-health secretary also attempting to get the support of the then cabinet secretary, Simon Case, in challenging the stance of Sunak, who was the chancellor, and others over some pandemic-era rules.

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