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Mar 7 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Your latest stories from the Telegraph’s #TheLockdownFiles:

🔴 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
Follow the latest revelations here ⤵️
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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.

Read the full story ⤵️
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⚠️ Having endured the pain of a second national lockdown, the idea of going straight into a tiered system of regional Covid lockdowns in December 2020 was not universally popular with Tory MPs.
Read the full story ⤵️
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💷 Consultants were paid a total of £1 million a day to work on the NHS Test and Trace system for more than a year of the pandemic, despite ministers being “very worried” about the spending.
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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
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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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