Editor’s Note: Here is the link to the explosive report by The Telegraph in the UK on Britain’s Matt Hancock who was the Health Secretary during the Covid lockdown – The Lockdown Files
by Elizabeth Haigh at Daily Mail
- Isabel Oakeshott described the message as ‘threatening’ in a Telegraph article
- It comes after she gave her entire cache of his messages to the newspaper
- Matt Hancock is said to be considering legal action to prevent further reporting
The journalist who leaked more than 100,000 of Matt Hancock‘s WhatsApp messages to the Telegraph has claimed the former Health Secretary sent her a ‘menacing message’ when he heard what she had done.
Isabel Oakeshott was given access to the messages while ghostwriting Mr Hancock’s book Pandemic Diaries – but said she felt compelled to share them with the paper due to information that is in the ‘public interest’ being left out of the memoir.
Ms Oakeshott last night revealed she did not give the ex-minister advance notice of the leak, saying he found out ‘late [Tuesday] night’.
Writing in The Telegraph, she described the message as ‘threatening’ as she launched a fresh defence of her actions by focussing on the pandemic’s impact on children.
On Wednesday she told Piers Morgan Uncensored on TalkTV: ‘I received a somewhat menacing message at 1.20 in the morning.’…
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