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Matt Hancock and Isabel Oakeshott: A tale of scoops, betrayal and WhatsApp [View all]
Difficult to feel any sympathy for either Hancock or Oakeshott over the current brouhaha. And I don't think anyone will emerge very well out of this.
Not sure what Hancock was thinking getting the notoriously untrustworthy mistress of a rival party leader opposed to lockdowns to ghost write his pandemic diaries for free?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-64825476
Her scoop for the Telegraph is journalistically unusual. The Telegraph's Covid splash is very different because Matt Hancock is the source. His ghostwriter really has come back to haunt him.
When the pair decided to collaborate on his Pandemic Diaries, Mr Hancock's diary-style account of his experience of government during Covid, Ms Oakeshott signed a confidentiality agreement.
He handed over more than 100,000 WhatsApp messages between himself, other ministers, aides and public health advisors.
These are the messages she has now given to the Telegraph. We are promised perhaps a week of revelations. Questions are being asked about Matt Hancock's judgment in trusting Isabel Oakeshott at all.
When the pair decided to collaborate on his Pandemic Diaries, Mr Hancock's diary-style account of his experience of government during Covid, Ms Oakeshott signed a confidentiality agreement.
He handed over more than 100,000 WhatsApp messages between himself, other ministers, aides and public health advisors.
These are the messages she has now given to the Telegraph. We are promised perhaps a week of revelations. Questions are being asked about Matt Hancock's judgment in trusting Isabel Oakeshott at all.
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