🔴 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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🗣Mr Hancock wanted to say that the Chinese explanation - that the virus being discovered close to a government science lab in Wuhan was coincidental - "just doesn't fly"
💬 But, in correspondence from late last year and leaked to the Telegraph, the Cabinet Office told him that the Government's position was that the original outbreak's location was "entirely coincidental"
It is the first time that the British position has been categorically stated.
Mr Hancock was warned that to differ from this narrative, which resembles China's version of events, risked "damaging national security"
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Mr Hancock was warned that to differ from this narrative, which resembles China's version of events, risked "damaging national security"
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🔴 Changes to the book were made by the Cabinet Office when it was submitted for review - a process all former ministers are expected to follow - last year. Once alterations were made, the book was signed off for publication by Cabinet Secretary Simon Case, on Nov 4 2022
📘 In his book, Pandemic Diaries, Mr Hancock also wanted to write that "Global fear of the Chinese must not get in the way of a full investigation into what happened” but this too was watered down
📚Here is one example of how the former health secretary’s book was changed:
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🔵 The disclosure comes just days before Rishi Sunak prepares to set out a new defence and security strategy that is expected to take a less aggressive tone to China than that proposed by his predecessor, Liz Truss
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