Matt Hancock leaks

Matt Hancock's plan to ‘frighten the pants off everyone’ about Covid

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/03/04/project-fear-covid-lockdown-files-matt-hancock-whatsapp/

How health secretary hoped to shock public into complying with ever-changing lockdown rules

How Matt Hancock sought to hog the Covid vaccine limelight

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/03/05/matt-hancock-triumph-covid-vaccine-lockdown-files-whatsapp/

Matt Hancock chose saving face over ending unnecessary ‘pingdemic’

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/03/05/chris-whitty-matt-hancock-covid-isolation-pingdemic-whatsapp/

At points, 600,000 pinged per week (who had been in close proximity to a Covid case)

Policy resulted in more than 20 million people being told to self-isolate,

regardless of whether they had symptoms.

At that stage, the self-isolation period was 14 days.

Fortnight-long quarantine applied to both contacts of Covid cases and returning travellers.

A month later isolation period was reduced to 10 days

Scheme not scrapped until Feb 2022

Matt Hancock jokes about Bill Gates

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/03/05/matt-hancock-joke-bill-gates-covid-vaccine-conspiracy-theory/

New Variant Assessment Platform (NVAP)

Offered UK expertise to assess new variants around the world

Many conspiracy theories, were said to have been spread on by pro-Kremlin outlets.

Mr Gates did not, in the event, endorse the New Variant Assessment Platform.