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Tory MP Steve Brine faces lobbying questions after Hancock message leak

Chair of health committee was said to have tried to persuade the NHS to hire anaesthetists through firm he worked for

The Guardian - UK

Cabinet Office told Hancock ‘to tone down China Covid lab leak claims’

Officials said it would ‘cause problems’ if ex-health secretary repeated allegations in memoir

The Independent UK

Matt Hancock ‘told to tone down China Covid lab leak claims’

Original manuscript prompted warning from Cabinet Office that ex-Health Secretary's allegations would 'cause problems' for the Government

Wales Online

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Hancock ‘told to tone down China Covid lab leak claims’

The Cabinet Office said it would ’cause problems’ if the former health secretary repeated the allegations in his memoir’.

The Independent UK

Senior Tory ‘lobbied head of NHS for company paying him £1,600 a month’

‘I have been trying for months to help the NHS through a company I am connected with,’ Steve Brine allegedly wrote

The Independent UK

Steve Brine: Tory health committee chair faces calls to step down over lobbying claims

The Telegraph said leaked messages showed Steve Brine tried to contact the head of the NHS on behalf of a firm he worked for

Evening Standard

Upsetting China is the Government's biggest taboo, as I found out the hard way

No Taiwan jokes, and Wuhan lab was just a coincidence: officials seemed terrified of annoying Beijing when they vetted Matt Hancock's book

The Telegraph

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Health committee chair faces calls to step down over lobbying claims

The Telegraph said leaked messages showed Steve Brine tried to contact the head of the NHS on behalf of a firm he worked for.

The Independent UK

Simon Case: How the ‘killjoy’ cabinet secretary became the Tory scapegoat amid #thelockdownfiles

The UK’s most senior civil servant, 44, is said to be considering quitting after his ‘embarassing’ WhatsApp messages were leaked – so what’s his track record in Government so far? Katie Strick reports

Evening Standard

The lesson from Matt Hancock’s WhatsApps is this: these clowns can’t govern, their only skill is covering tracks

Rightwing editorial agendas shaped the narrative of the Lockdown Files, but what they really showed was bunglers bungling in secret, writes the Guardian columnist Zoe Williams

The Guardian - UK

‘Keir Starmer just ordered an alpaca airstrike!’ The game that holds up a dystopian mirror to the UK

Dan Douglas started Duke Smoochem as a Twitter joke. Now the project has spiralled into an epic portrait of a declining nation – with everyone from Matt Hancock to GB News in its satirical crosshairs

The Guardian - UK

Politicos set their WhatsApp messages to delete after Matt Hancock leak

The Londoner notices that more than one politician has their messages on a default timer

Evening Standard

Cabinet secretary Simon Case ‘considers quitting’ as more embarrassing WhatsApps expected

‘He’ll have to go’: Some of top No 10 official’s Covid-era messages said to be ‘extraordinary’

The Independent UK

The Mancunian Way: 'Arm twisting and leverage'

Matt Hancock's Bury 'dangle' PLUS M15 apologies AND inside the NHS

Manchester Evening News

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Daily Mirror

Dis Life: 'Glib Hancock shows the contempt for Disabled people from Government down'

This week’s shocker (not actually a shocker) for Disabled people was news of a jolly little chat between then Health Secretary Matt Hancock and aide Allan Nixon

The Independent UK

PM gives Cabinet Secretary his backing after Covid WhatsApp messages revealed

Simon Case is reportedly considering whether to resign before the next election following the publication of his interactions with Matt Hancock.

The Telegraph

Tuesday evening news briefing: No 10 rebukes Hancock over plot to block disability funding

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The Guardian - UK

Keir Starmer would drop cabinet secretary Simon Case – Labour sources

Labour leader seen as likely to appoint new head of civil service on becoming PM after Partygate and leaked WhatsApps

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Daily Mirror

'Despicable' Matt Hancock blasted over WhatsApp plot to block disability cash from MP

Leaked WhatsApp show the ex-Health Secretary and a top aide spoke about warning Bury North MP James Daly a new disability hub would be 'off the table' if he rebelled over Covid rules

The Guardian - UK

Hancock messages show government ‘drunk on power’, MPs say

WhatsApp leak shows then health secretary agreeing with idea of threatening to withhold funds for local projects

The National (Scotland)

Matt Hancock ‘despicable’ for discussing withholding disability centre funds from MP

MATT Hancock has been accused of “despicable” behaviour after leaked messages suggested he discussed withholding funding for a learning…

The Telegraph

Matt Hancock was ‘drunk on power’ and should be questioned in Commons over Lockdown Files, says Jake Berry

Former Tory Party chairman reacts to Telegraph's latest WhatsApp leak

The Independent UK

Hancock ‘despicable’ for discussing withholding disability centre funds from MP

Matt Hancock and an aide considered using funding for the centre as leverage to persuade a Tory MP to back lockdown rules, leaked messages suggest.

The Independent UK

Hancock discussed blocking disability hub if MP opposed lockdown, messages reveal

Ex-health secretary branded ‘absolute disgrace’ as latest leak suggests he backed putting pressure on Bury North MP

Manchester Evening News

Matt Hancock 'discussed withholding learning disability hub if Bury MP opposed lockdown', leaked messages suggest

"James wants his Learning Disability Hub in Bury – whips call him up and say Health team want to work with him to deliver this but that’ll be off the table if he rebels”

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