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🔴 Hancock Covid memoirs censored

🔴 ‘No one believed the Covid Wuhan leak theory’

🔴 @IsabelOakeshott : ‘Upsetting China is the Government's biggest taboo’

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🔴 Matt Hancock was censored by the Cabinet Office over his concerns that the Covid-19 pandemic began with a lab leak in Wuhan, the Lockdown Files reveals.

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🔴 When Covid-19 first emerged in Wuhan in December 2019, many pointed out that the outbreak was close to the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV).

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🔴 NEW: Matt Hancock was censored by the Cabinet Office over his concerns that the Covid-19 pandemic began with a lab leak in Wuhan, the #LockdownFiles reveals.

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🔵 Matt Hancock was censored by the Cabinet Office over his concerns that the Covid-19 pandemic began with a lab leak in Wuhan, #TheLockdownFiles reveals
📕 The former health secretary was told to tone down claims in his book because the Government feared it would "cause problems" with China
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NEW: The Tory MP who chairs the health select committee lobbied the NHS Chief Exec and ministers on behalf of a company paying him £1,600 a month.

Steve Brine told Michael Gove in February 2021 he had been “trying for months” to get work for his employer.
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At the time Remedium, a recruitment consultancy, had been paying Brine as a “strategic adviser” at a rate of £200/hour

But he was frustrated the NHS had not used its services to hire anaesthetists, telling Gove: “How might I progress this or does the NHS just not need the help?”
Brine could have broken two sets of lobbying rules — the Cabinet Office Business Appointment Rules and the MPs’ Code of Conduct.

He was told specifically by ACOBA he should not use “Government and/or Whitehall contacts…to secure business on behalf of Remedium Partners”.
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The latest from the Telegraph’s #TheLockdownFiles:

🔴 Sunak refuses to say Simon Case should stay

🔴 @AllisonPearson: ‘Hancock should be arrested’

🔴 The messages that reveal how Britain was plunged into lockdown

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🔴 Rishi Sunak has refused three times to say he has confidence that Simon Case will remain the Cabinet Secretary until the next election, amid a growing backlash to his pandemic-era WhatsApp messages.

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🔴 ‘The slithy tove can – and must – be dragged before a Select Committee and made to answer for his actions and the vast hurt they have caused,’ says @AllisonPearson.

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The latest #TheLockdownFiles:

🗣 Covid not deadly enough to fast-track vaccines, Chris Whitty advised
🔴Simon Case said he was ‘Mr Killjoy’ in meetings with ‘bouncing Boris J’
📲 How sober, professional WhatsApp conversations descended into chaos

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🗣 Chief Medical Officer gave opinion in February 2020 after Dominic Cummings mentioned Israel was planning to inoculate population

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🔴 Leaked messages published in The Lockdown Files show the now Cabinet Secretary complaining about the then PM in June 2020

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🔴 Matt Hancock’s plot to block funding for disabled children if MP opposed lockdown
⚠️ How ‘off the boil’ MPs were placed on secret red list
💷 Consultants were paid total of £1m a day to work on NHS Test and Trace
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🔴 Matt Hancock discussed a plan to block funding for a new centre for disabled children and adults as a way of pressuring a rebel Tory MP to back new lockdown restrictions, The Lockdown Files show.

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🔴 NEW: The then health secretary and his political aide discussed taking plan for a learning disability hub in Bury ‘off the table’

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🔵 Matt Hancock discussed a plan to block funding for a new centre for disabled children and adults as a way of pressuring a rebel Tory MP to back new lockdown restrictions, #TheLockdownFiles show
💬 WhatsApp messages between the then health secretary, and his political aide show they discussed taking a plan for a learning disability hub in Bury, Greater Manchester, “off the table” if James Daly, the Bury North MP, sided against the Government in a key vote
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Your latest stories from the Telegraph’s #TheLockdownFiles:

🔴Hancock's plan to import French Covid patients
🔴Lockdown 'sex ban' sparked fierce debate, messages reveal
🔴Nelson: Simon Case must take his share of the blame

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💬 Matt Hancock planned to bring French Covid patients to the UK for treatment during the second wave of the pandemic, despite national lockdown restrictions in force to protect the NHS.

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🔵 Chief Medical Officer said ‘realism’ was needed on rules that prevented partners living separately from seeing each other.

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Latest stories from the Telegraph’s #TheLockdownFiles:

🔴Matt Hancock's plan to ‘frighten the pants off everyone’
🔴‘Project Fear’ authors discussed when to ‘deploy’ new variant
🔴Hancock’s PR scramble after affair revealed

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🔴Leaked WhatsApp messages reveal how health secretary hoped to shock public into complying with ever-changing lockdown rules

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🔴Matt Hancock’s plan to ‘frighten the pants off’ the public to ensure compliance with lockdown measures exposed in leaked WhatsApp messages

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🔴 NEW: The former health secretary rejected cutting the 14-day self-isolation period, as he feared it would ‘imply we’d been getting it wrong’

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🔴 At points during the pandemic, more than 600,000 people a week who had been in close proximity to a Covid case were told to quarantine for 10 days
🔴 In total, the policy resulted in more than 20 million people - a third of the entire population - being told to self-isolate, regardless of whether they had symptoms

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🔴NEW: Leaked WhatsApp messages reveal how health secretary hoped to shock public into complying with ever-changing lockdown rules

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🔴 Throughout the course of the pandemic, officials and ministers wrestled with how to ensure the public complied with ever-changing lockdown restrictions.

One weapon in their arsenal was fear
🗣 “We frighten the pants off everyone,” Matt Hancock suggested during one WhatsApp message with his media adviser
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Your latest stories from the Telegraph’s #TheLockdownFiles:

🔴Leak reveals how Johnson veered from lockdown sceptic to zealot
🔴Hancock's campaign to remove NHS chief revealed
🔴and 10 things we’ve learned so far

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💬 New WhatsApp messages show then prime minister repeatedly changed his mind depending on who he had been talking to.

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🔴 Ministers tried to remove the head of the NHS just five days after the first Covid-19 case was detected in the UK.

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⏰Inside Matt Hancock’s 41-hour scramble to save his career after Gina Coladangelo affair revealed

Messages uncovered in #TheLockdownFiles show the former health secretary forever changing his statement on the affair as he tried to rescue career

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telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/03/0… Inside Matt Hancock’s 41-hour scramble to save his career
🔴 It was 1am when the pictures were published online of Matt Hancock and his aide Gina Coladangelo in an intimate embrace in his ministerial office.

Just three minutes later the health secretary and aides began a frantic scramble to save his political career
📞Hancock had been expecting the news to break, having received a call from Victoria Newton, the editor of the Sun at 6.53pm on June 24

📕In his book he says he phoned Mr Johnson to inform him of the affair before setting off home to tell his wife, Martha, and their children
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🔴 Inside Hancock’s 41-hour scramble to save his career after affair revealed

🗣 Was I right to leak Hancock's messages? | Oakeshott

📷 The picture that shows No 10 champagne gathering

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🔴 Inside Hancock’s 41-hour scramble to save his career after affair revealed

WhatsApp messages show former health secretary forever changing his statement on the affair as he tried to rescue career

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🗣 'Was I right to leak Matt Hancock's WhatsApp messages? Here's what you told me'

'Since the Lockdown Files were published, the reaction from ordinary people has been astonishing' | Writes Isabel Oakeshott

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Your latest stories from the Telegraph’s #TheLockdownFiles:

⏰ Matt Hancock: 'We didn't break the f---ing law'

🔴 The WhatsApp messages that expose Rishi Sunak and Matt Hancock’s lockdown power struggle

🗣 Hancock hoped Covid could propel career ‘into next league’
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⏰ It was 1am when the pictures were published online of Matt Hancock and his aide Gina Coladangelo in an intimate embrace in his ministerial office.

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🔴 NEW: The WhatsApp messages that expose Rishi Sunak and Matt Hancock’s lockdown power struggle

#TheLockdownFiles #LockdownFiles

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🔴 Matt Hancock sought to enlist the Cabinet Secretary, Simon Case, in a plan to outflank Rishi Sunak during repeated rows over Covid restrictions.

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🔴 Mr Hancock and Mr Sunak were at odds during the pandemic over the extent of lockdown measures, with the then health secretary in favour of tighter restrictions than the then chancellor.

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The latest stories from the Telegraph’s #TheLockdownFiles:

🗣 Hancock: ‘Get heavy with police’ to enforce lockdown

✍️ @RachelSJohnson: 'As police pursued my father, my mother endured care home prison'

🔴 Hancock's team: Can we lock up ‘pub hooligan’ Farage?

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💬 WhatsApp messages in @Telegraph's #LockdownFiles show how then health secretary Matt Hancock and colleagues gave officers ‘marching orders’ to enforce measures.

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✍️ 'The price of freedom is eternal vigilance, and I completely support Isabel Oakeshott’s bravery in showing us how the sausage of doom was made,' writes @RachelSJohnson.

'It must never, ever, happen again'

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🔴 ‘Get heavy with police’ to enforce lockdown, Matt Hancock told ministers

#TheLockdownFiles #LockdownFiles

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🚨 Ministers and the country’s most senior civil servant discussed how they needed to “get heavy with the police” to crack down on the public during the Covid pandemic.

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✔️ WhatsApp messages in The Lockdown Files disclose how Matt Hancock and colleagues gave officers their “marching orders” to enforce lockdown measures, just days before Number 10 staff held a party in Downing Street.

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Your latest stories from the Telegraph’s #TheLockdownFiles:

🔴Britain’s second lockdown was based on ‘very wrong’ data, Boris Johnson feared

🔵 Top mandarin mocked holidaymakers 'locked up' in Covid quarantine hotels

🚨 ‘Get heavy with police’ to enforce lockdown, Hancock said
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🔴 Boris Johnson was worried that he had “blinked too soon” in plunging Britain into a second national lockdown on the basis of data that scientists had warned him was “very wrong”.

#TheLockdownFiles #LockdownFiles

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Behind on #TheLockdownFiles? Here's what you might've missed:

🔵 Matt Hancock staged ‘rearguard’ action to close schools

🔴 Williamson: Teachers looking for 'excuse' not to work during pandemic

✍️ Oakeshott: 'Hancock can threaten me all he wants'

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🔵 WhatsApp leaks reveal how then health secretary and his advisers mocked Gavin Williamson in private for 'freaking out'

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🔴 Sir Gavin Williamson criticised both school staff and unions for their response to coronavirus, saying that the latter “really do just hate work”.

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🔴 Boris Johnson proposed giving over-65s choice on Covid shielding

The then PM’s misgivings about isolation revealed as he asked if the most vulnerable could be trusted to decide level of risk for themselves

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telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/03/0… Boris Johnson proposed giving over-65s choice on Covid shiel
🔵 While lockdown pressed pause on most Britons’ lives, those who were clinically “extremely vulnerable” were much more severely isolated - and for longer
🏠 “Shielding” guidance brought in during the very early days of the pandemic warned them not to leave their homes for any reason other than a medical appointment – not even for the one hour’s exercise then enjoyed by the rest of the country
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🔴 The Government is set to face an urgent question in the House of Commons over its handling of the coronavirus pandemic following the publication of #TheLockdownFiles.

It will take place immediately following #PMQs.

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🔴 Sir Keir Starmer said the formal inquiry into the Government's handling of the coronavirus pandemic must report by the end of this year as he raised #TheLockdownFiles in the House of Commons.

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🔴NEW: Using WhatsApp to discuss Government business is “part and parcel of modern government”, Downing Street said

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The Telegraph ? and #TheLockdownFiles ?

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"Lockdown Files CREDITS

Claire Newell , Robert Mendick, Isabel Oakeshott , Katherine Rushton . Hayley Dixon . Tony Diver , Gordon Rayner , Janet Eastham , Jack Leather , Sophie Barnes, Blathnaid Corless"

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2004 : "The Sunday Times is facing a police investigation following the arrest of a young would-be journalist working as an agency temp in Whitehall.

Claire Newell has been arrested and questioned in connection with the hunt for a Cabinet Office mole .."
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The Telegraph has obtained more than 100,000 WhatsApp messages sent between Matt Hancock and other ministers and officials at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic.

These are #thelockdownfiles
The Lockdown Files is the biggest leak of data involving the Government since the 2009 MPs' expenses scandal, shedding new light on issues including care home deaths, lockdowns, testing, school closures and face masks

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The Telegraph analysed messages containing 2.3 million words.

In The Lockdown Files we reveal the contents of those messages, and the serious questions they raise... #TheLockdownFiles telegraph.co.uk/news/lockdown-…
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