Exclusive: Matt Hancock on NatCon, Covid, WhatsApps and “being human”
The News Agents
Global
4.1 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2023
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Matt Hancock, this afternoon, walked into The News Agents bunker for the first time. In this full, unedited interview, he tells us what he makes of the right of the Conservative Party, why he gave Isabel Oakeshott 100,000 of his WhatsApp messages, and he tells us who he thinks leaked the video revealing his affair with his aide at the height of Covid restrictions.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:08.1 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:11.6 | Since we started the newsagents back in September, for one reason or another, there has been one person, one politician who has been consistently in the news and someone that over |
| 0:23.6 | that time we have really, really wanted to get into the news agent studio. The person in question |
| 0:30.1 | was a cabinet minister during COVID who was caught snogging his special advisor on camera, |
| 0:36.1 | who then went to the jungle for redemption where he ate |
| 0:39.6 | sheep's vagina and camel's penis. He handed over 100,000 WhatsApp messages to Isabel Oakshot, |
| 0:47.5 | a journalist with a reputation for burning her contacts from time to time. And then he was |
| 0:52.5 | caught on camera trying to get 10,000 pounds a day |
| 0:54.8 | from a Korean company that didn't exist. We're talking about Matt Hancock coming up next. Welcome |
| 1:02.4 | to the newsagents. It's going to be a cracker. The Newsagents. It's Lewis And it's John |
| 1:11.4 | And we are joined in the studio now |
| 1:13.3 | By Matt Hancock |
| 1:14.6 | And I suspect Matt Hancock |
| 1:16.1 | What has got you animated |
| 1:17.5 | Is the NACON conference this week |
| 1:20.2 | The National Conservative Conference |
| 1:21.4 | Which we spent quite a bit of time |
| 1:23.0 | discussing on the news agents |
| 1:24.9 | Earlier in the week |
| 1:26.3 | What did you make of it? |
| 1:29.5 | I saw a lot of the news that came out of it and I thought that if these voices, if these arguments win a debate within |
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