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‘I think you can easily surmise whether Matt Hancock is my friend at this point,’ says Isabel Oakeshott

Journalist Isabel Oakeshott said it was clear that Matt Hancock was not happy after she gave him no advance notice about leaking his private WhatsApp exchanges and added he sent her a 'menacing text'. Mr Hancock denied this claim

Former education secretary said to have made comments in leaked WhatsApp exchanges to Matt Hancock, then health secretary

Rish! drags himself to dispatch box but no sign of that other man of the moment, Matt Hancock

Before we begin, I ought to declare an interest: I have for many years defended Matt Hancock. As health secretary, he made significant errors in his handling of the pandemic, not least the way in which Covid was allowed to spread into residential care homes in the spring of 2020.…

Sunak urges people not to focus on ‘piecemeal bits of information’ and to let the inquiry ‘get on with the job’

Helen Whately defends ex-colleague while answering urgent question in Commons after leak of messages

Jane Moore hit out at Coleen Nolan and the rest of the Loose Women panel as she argued the leaked Matt Hancock WhatsApp messages were in the "public interest"

Ex-minister’s judgment questioned for trusting journalist who has long made clear her disdain for his lockdown policies