What we learned from the lockdown files

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🗓️ 1 March 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

The Daily Telegraph has splashed on over 100,000 WhatsApp messages to and from Matt Hancock during his time as Health Secretary. Altogether they show the internal workings of the government and how key lockdown decisions were made during that time. On the podcast, James Heale talks to Katy Balls and Fraser Nelson, who has been working with the Telegraph on putting these files into the public eye.

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0:15.9	Hello and welcome to Coffee How Shots.
0:20.6	I'm James Heel and I'm joined today by Katie Bulls and Fraser Nelson.
0:24.3	All of Westminster is talking about the files released by the Telegraph on the WhatsApp
0:28.1	Messages of Matt Hancock during the pandemic.
0:30.9	Katie, tell us through what we've learnt today.
0:33.8	So the Telegraph has obtained over 100,000 messages set between Matt Hancock and other
0:40.1	ministers during the pandemic.
0:42.6	They have access for Isabel Oakshot, who was the ghost writer on Matt Hancock's pandemic
0:47.8	diaries.
0:48.8	But I don't think he intended these diaries to continue in the form they are now taking
0:52.8	on the front of the...
0:53.8	On the...
0:54.8	For never ending Matt Hancock diaries.
0:56.8	Yeah.
0:57.8	On the front of the Telegraph today, and I think the steer is that there will be a lot
1:01.6	more front pages of this, and lots more disclosures coming from the Telegraph as they go through
1:06.8	the various things as messages unveil.
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