Matt Hancock breaks his silence over leaked WhatsApp messages
EMBATTLED Matt Hancock dramatically broke his silence today over 100,000 leaked WhatsApp messages he sent to ministers and officials during the pandemic.Matt Hancock and Isabel Oakeshott pose together at his Pandemic Diaries book launch in December last yearAnd he hit back at accusations he sent "menacing messages" to Isabel Oakeshott, the journalist who broke a non-disclosure agreement to leak the texts to The Telegraph.
The journalist was handed over hundreds of thousands of messages in confidence to help her write an accurate account.
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