This is the Guardian.

Today, the fallout from Matt Hancock's WhatsApp messages.

If you really wanted to know what politicians were saying when they're not on camera,

when they're not dodging awkward interview questions,

the answers may well be in their WhatsApp's.

In the past week, extraordinarily, we have all had access to the messages sent by Matt Hancock,

a man who during the worst period of the pandemic was one of the most powerful people in this country.

The coronavirus pandemic continues to grow.

Yesterday, the Prime Minister announced the most radical steps yet to slow the spread of this virus.

And these steps are not requests. They are rules.

Who, as health secretary, was helping to set the rules on who got access to tests and to vaccines

on whether we could travel or go to work or see our family or friends.

And so everybody has a responsibility to follow those rules and where possible to stay at home.

And in over 100,000 WhatsApp messages that have been leaked by Isabel Oakshot, a political journalist,

it's appeared that government ministers and the public health experts advising them during that time were often in conflict.

The messages from April 2020 appear to show Matt Hancock rejected advice to test all residents going into English care homes.

The Cabinet ministers may have made decisions for the public that were as much about their own political ambitions as they were about our safety.

He tells Mr Osborne he was struggling to get his target of 100,000 tests per day.

Mr Osborne then agrees to a front page splash to help fill thousands of spare testing slots.

For Oakshot, it's a massive scoop.

This is about the millions of people every one of us in this country that were adversely affected by the catastrophic decisions to lock down this country repeatedly.

Hancock has called it a massive betrayal.

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