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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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🗣They also messaged about how “the plod got their marching orders” during a meeting attended by the prime minister, the home secretary and Simon Case, now the Cabinet Secretary.

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🔴 Despite ministers claiming in public that the police are operationally independent of the Government, the leaked messages reveal that senior officers were hauled into Number 10 to be told they should be stricter with the public.

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📲 The first conversation took place in late August 2020 after Mr Case, then a permanent secretary at the Cabinet Office, asked Mr Hancock, the then health secretary.

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Mar 3
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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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Your latest stories from the Telegraph’s #TheLockdownFiles:

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

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Mar 2
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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Mar 1
🔴 EXCLUSIVE: Matt Hancock staged ‘rearguard’ action to close schools

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⚠️ Matt Hancock mounted a “rearguard action” to close schools despite Sir Gavin Williamson battling “tooth and nail” to keep classrooms open, leaked WhatsApp messages reveal.

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🔴 Exchanges seen by The Telegraph reveal that the then health secretary battled the education secretary in late December 2020 and suggested it was “mad” that Sir Gavin was attempting to keep schools open.
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Mar 1
🔴 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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🔵 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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Mar 1
🔴 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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