The Latest Breaking News on Health officials was ‘not concerned’ about Covid patients in care homes months into pandemic, inquiry hears

The messages raise further serious questions about why ministers during the Covid pandemic failed to protect care home residents and why the testing regime was dogged by failures

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Lord Bethell says ‘there was an idea at one moment that we might have to ask the public to exterminate all the cats in Britain’

Isabel Oakeshott leaked messages, which suggested the ex Health Secretary was told in April 2020 there should be "testing of all going into care homes"

Isabel Oakeshott leaked messages, which suggested the ex Health Secretary was told in April 2020 there should be "testing of all going into care homes"

An extraordinary war of words has erupted over events at the centre of government during the Covid pandemic after more than 100,000 of Matt Hancock’s Whatsapp messages were leaked.

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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’

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