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Revealed: Taxpayers funding university courses for top executives on £100,000 a year

Exclusive: Industry bosses say scheme introduced by David Cameron in 2017 is failing and urgently needs reform

The Independent UK

'Government's Covid shambles laid bare amid Matt Hancock's WhatsApp message mayhem'

Brian Reade says Matt Hancock's WhatsApp fiasco just confirms how incompetent the Tory Government - and he himself - were during the Covid-19 pandemic

Daily Mirror

The Irish also mangle names – just ask my husband, Colin (aka Colm)

The Guardian - UK

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Worst of Westminster: Red-faced Hancock and more Lee Anderson drama

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The National (Scotland)

The 10 most excruciating leaked Matt Hancock WhatsApp messages

The more than 100,000 leaked texts shed light on the Government’s haphazard handling of the pandemic. Ethan Croft has combed through the data and dug out the most salacious

Evening Standard

Two-faced Tories give key workers no recognition, praise or reward post-pandemic

The only people who failed to appreciate this were Matt Hancock and the then Education Secretary Gavin Williamson who, like silly schoolboys, sent puerile messages in which Williamson accused teachers of being lazy

Daily Mirror

Ministers joked about locking up travellers to UK in quarantine hotels during pandemic

Matt Hancock's leaked messages reveal that ministers and officials made jokes about people arriving in the UK during the Covid pandemic being locked up in quarantine hotels

Daily Mirror

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Matt Hancock wanted to ‘get heavy with police’ to enforce lockdown, say leaked messages

‘Plod got their marching orders’, said then-health secretary after meeting with Boris Johnson and officers

The Independent UK

Teachers rage at 'disgusting' Tory WhatsApp messages saying they 'really do hate work'

Teachers and unions have hit back after leaked WhatsApps between Sir Gavin and the-then Health Secretary Matt Hancock show the pair criticising staff for wanting to ensure schools were safe

Daily Mirror

'The idea the Education Secretary thought teachers were lazy during Covid is disgusting'

'In my 30-year teaching career I have never seen staff work so hard as they did during the pandemic,' says Dr Paul Gosling, NAHT President and head teacher of Exeter Road Community Primary School in Devon

Daily Mirror

Striking teachers’ union slams leaked Matt Hancock WhatsApp messages at Bristol rally

Executive union member says they were a 'horrendous slap in the face'

Bristol Post

Matt Hancock’s WhatsApp messages: what he said v Covid context

As revelations from 100,000 messages emerge, here’s a reminder of the pandemic reality at the time

The Guardian - UK

Isabel Oakeshott says Hancock leaks ‘in public interest’ despite criticism

The journalist said she makes ‘no apology whatsoever for acting in the national interest’ over her disclosure of Matt Hancock’s WhatsApp messages.

The Independent UK

Matt Hancock says he's the victim of a 'breach of trust' after leaked messages

MATT Hancock has said that he is the victim of a “massive betrayal and breach of trust” following the disclosure of messages revealed the inside…

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Evening Standard

Matt Hancock ‘sent menacing message’ over leaked texts as row grows

You’ve made ‘a big mistake’ says former Health Secretary as he hits out at reporter’s ‘breach of trust and betrayal’

Evening Standard

Three-quarters of London schools hit as teachers strike again

London schools are among the worst affected by walkout with more strikes dates on the way

The Independent UK

Key revelations from leak of Hancock WhatsApps

The messages shed light on government decision-making around Covid testing, school closures and care homes.

Daily Mirror

Teachers blast 'sneering' Gavin Williamson WhatsApps saying they 'hate work'

Leaked WhatsApps between Sir Gavin Williamson and the-then Health Secretary Matt Hancock show the pair criticising hard-working staff for wanting to ensure schools were safe during the pandemic

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Wales Online

Teaching unions brand former education secretary's 'hate work' comment 'contemptible'

Sir Gavin Williamson said that the unions 'really do just hate work'

The Guardian - UK

Teachers say Gavin Williamson pandemic texts reveal ‘secret contempt’

Teaching unions react with fury to leaked Matt Hancock messages they say show ‘appalling lack of respect’

The Independent UK

Teaching unions brand Williamson remarks ‘contemptible’ after WhatsApp leak

The messages appear to show the then education secretary accusing school staff of looking for an ‘excuse’ not to work during the pandemic.

Evening Standard

Gavin Williamson ‘accused teachers of looking for excuse to avoid work during pandemic’

The then-Education Secretary also said teaching unions ‘really really do just hate work’, according to reported leaked messages

Evening Standard

Matt Hancock ‘hugely disappointed and sad’ after WhatsApp messages released

The former health secretary has accused journalist Isabel Oakeshott of a ‘massive betrayal’.

Manchester Evening News

Matt Hancock labelled teaching unions 'arses' with Gavin Williamson saying they 'just hate work' in leaked messages

It came amid disagreements over schools opening during the early months of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Evening Standard

Isabel Oakeshott says Matt Hancock sent her a ‘menacing message’

Mr Hancock denied sending the journalist a menacing message

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