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The journalist who published thousands of Matt Hancock's WhatsApp messages left a radio interview after being questioned as to why she leaked the story to the Daily Telegraph.

Isabel Oakeshott, TalkTV's international editor, broke a non-disclosure agreement to leak thousands of messages sent by Hancock, which she had access to through co-writing his book, the Pandemic Diaries.