Former UK health secretary Matt Hancock has been exposed saying on WhatsApp that he wanted to ‘scare the pants off everyone’ during the COVID lockdowns.
The Sunday Times Journalist Isabel Oakeshott was the person responsible for discovering and exposing the messages, and an investigation is currently underway.
“It has, in fact, taken a team of eight investigative journalists, the best part of two months, to sift through all this stuff,” Ms Oakeshott told Sky News Australia.“Can you imagine any journalist worth the name journalist that sat on material like that. “Even though I knew that I risked being sued and that I would, of course, be accused of a breach of trust.”
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