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Matt Hancock feared he would be labelled ‘racist’, leaked WhatsApps exhibit

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Mar 10, 2023
New leaked WhatsApp messages published today by The Daily Telegraph reveal Matt Hancock, then health secretary told Ms Dorries on August 20, 2020:


Matt Hancock feared getting labelled ‘racist’ in excess of boosting concerns that Covid was spreading speedier among ‘non-compliant’ communities, new leaked messages expose.  

WhatsApp exchanges from August 2020 clearly show Nadine Dorries, a critical determine at the Division of Well being at the time, alert her boss Mr Hancock not to lockdown ‘our voters’ since of the ‘behaviour of non compliant communities’. 

She later on suggested there could be ‘race riots’ if he selected to lockdown the ‘white performing-class’ area of Colne in Lancashire although the virus was speedily spreading in the neighbouring town of Nelson. 

The messages, the most up-to-date to be published by The Day-to-day Telegraph, also reveal a different Conservative MP advised then prime minister, Boris Johnson, that nearby lockdown limits were fuelling ‘race relation issues’ in his constituency. 

Texts unearthed these days expose Mr Hancock, then health and fitness secretary informed Ms Dorries on August 20, 2020: ‘I really do not want to be identified as a racist but we’ve obtained to title it’.

New leaked WhatsApp messages printed these days by The Everyday Telegraph reveal Matt Hancock, then well being secretary explained to Ms Dorries on August 20, 2020: ‘I do not want to be referred to as a racist but we’ve received to identify it’

WhatsApp exchanges from August 2020 show Nadine Dorries, a key figure at the Department of Health at the time, warn her boss Matt Hancock not to lockdown 'our voters' because of the 'behaviour of non compliant communities'

WhatsApp exchanges from August 2020 display Nadine Dorries, a key determine at the Section of Wellness at the time, alert her manager Matt Hancock not to lockdown ‘our voters’ for the reason that of the ‘behaviour of non compliant communities’

Ms Dorries, who at the time served as minister for patient safety, suicide prevention and mental health, responded: ‘We cannot place whole towns and villages with exceptionally very low R rates in lockdown (our voters) and deprive those people people of work and relatives bcse of the behaviour of non compliant communities.’ 

MailOnline has not seen or independently verified the WhatsApp messages, leaked to The Day-to-day Telegraph by Isabel Oakeshott, the journalist who helped ex-Health and fitness Secretary Matt Hancock publish his ebook Pandemic Diaries. 

The R charge — which epidemiologists use measure a disease’s capacity to unfold – is, in essence, the amount of people today that a single infected individual will go on a virus to, on regular.

At the time the R price throughout England was believed to be between .9 and 1. according to information from the Scientific Advisory Team for Emergencies (Sage).

On August 19, take a look at and trace info showed a 27 for each cent soar in the variety of constructive Covid scenarios, regardless of the selection of individuals examined cutting down somewhat.

Nearby lockdowns and steps had been in location throughout a selection of cities to focus on parts with a increased R level, following the nationwide lockdown ended on July 4. 

On Aug 20, ministers ended up thinking about refreshing interventions in Oldham, Pendle and Blackburn in Lancashire as the epidemiological knowledge showed that instances were being getting out of manage in particular places.

Later that day, in a information to Ms Dorries, Mr Hancock mentioned he experienced spoken to Philip Davies, the Conservative MP for Shipley, West Yorkshire about regional lockdowns.

‘I told him that provided he’s got a veto, it’s actually incredibly excellent for him,’ Mr Hancock advised Ms Dorries.

‘I’m talking to Andrew Stephenson tonight pertaining to Pendle’, she responded. 

She added: ‘Remember the Burnley race riots? I was operating as Oliver Letwin’s Spad [special advisor] at the time. Andrew incredibly worried at his LA [local authority] CEOs stance that any limitations ought to be a person measurement fits all, across the constituency. 

‘The town ward of Colne, 18 pubs, white operating class would be like a tinder box if it’s pubs closed bcse of non compliance and infection premiums in Nelson, 2 pubs, Pakistani neighborhood upcoming door.’

On August 21, the Federal government then unveiled new Covid direction to come into drive on August 22, tightening restrictions on households conference and attendances at weddings and funerals, in some pieces of east Lancashire. 

Philip Davies, MP for Shipley, had also reached out to then Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, earlier in August to prevent lockdown restrictions from including Pendle, leaked WhatsApp messages show

Philip Davies, MP for Shipley, had also achieved out to then Primary Minister, Boris Johnson, previously in August to protect against lockdown constraints from which includes Pendle, leaked WhatsApp messages display

These in Oldham, Pendle and Blackburn were told not to socialise with any person outside their family and not to use community transport unless of course it was vital. 

Colne was not integrated in these new measures. 

Asserting the limits, Mr Hancock explained at the time: ‘Working with regional leaders we agreed even more action in Oldham, Pendle and Blackburn. It is very important that anyone in these locations comply with the guidance of their councils, and abide by their regional principles diligently.’

The action was ‘as focused as possible, with the optimum doable regional consensus’, he included. 

It came as Mr Davies had arrived at out to then Key Minister, Boris Johnson, previously in August to protect against lockdown restrictions from which includes Pendle, leaked WhatsApp messages clearly show. 

In a message shared with Mr Hancock by Mr Johnson, the MP for Shipley wrote: ‘I am determined to communicate to you about the final decision of the govt to contain my constituency in the neighborhood lockdown on Bradford – even nevertheless there are hardly any instances in my constituency. 

‘This is creating a substantial problem and is fuelling substantial race relations issues. This wants to be solved ASAP. 

‘I would be incredibly grateful if you could come across the time to go over with me. This is poisonous locally.’ 

Pendle had been positioned below constraints alongside swathes of the north of England which include Bradford and Larger Manchester on July 30, the evening in advance of Eid. 

But further texts leaked to The Everyday Telegraph also show Dido Harding, who led the Government’s check and trace programme, alert Mr Hancock of a increase in infections amongst the ‘same communities’ who would be celebrating Eid, 10 days previously. 

She wrote: ‘I am truly anxious about Eid. The geographic distribute is all in the very same communities.’  

Essential Statements OF THE LOCKDOWN Files INVESTIGATION 

A contemporary cache of 100,000 text and WhatsApp messages leaked to the Every day Telegraph by the ex-journalist who ghost-wrote Hancock’s Pandemic Diaries claimed:

  • Matt Hancock turned down the Main Health-related Officer’s simply call to check all residents going into English care homes for Covid
  • A minister in Mr Hancock’s division said limits on guests to treatment households were ‘inhumane’, but citizens remained isolated many months on
  • Mr Hancock’s adviser organized for a private test to be couriered for Jacob Rees-Mogg’s kid at a time of national scarcity
  • Mr Hancock informed previous chancellor George Osborne, then editor of the Night Normal, ‘I WANT TO Strike MY Target!’ as he pushed for favourable entrance-page protection
  • Mr Hancock allegedly satisfied his 100,000-tests-a-working day goal by counting kits that have been despatched in advance of the deadline but could possibly under no circumstances be processed 
  • Social treatment minister Helen Whately told Mr Hancock the screening technique was ‘definitely working’ after she managed to protected a examination ‘just’ 50 miles from the place she lived. 
  • Mr Osborne warned Mr Hancock that ‘no one particular thinks screening is going well’ in late 2020 
  • The then primary minister, Boris Johnson, disclosed he was likely ‘quietly crackers’ about the UK’s shortage of test kits
  • Deal with masks were released in university hallways and communal places following the PM was informed it would keep away from an ‘argument’ with Scotland’s Initially Minister, Nicola Sturgeon 
  • Matt Hancock took ‘rearguard’ action to close educational institutions just after previous training secretary Sir Gavin Williamson persuaded the PM to retain them open in January 2021
  • Sir Gavin said academics were seeking for an ‘excuse’ not to operate in the course of the pandemic
  • Ministers explained there was ‘no strong rationale’ for imposing the ‘rule of six’ on young children, but did it anyway
  • Pupils with untrue beneficial success on a lateral movement check had to isolate at residence for 10 days, even when they examined destructive on a PCR, to stay clear of ‘unpicking’ the plan
  • The PM feared that he ‘blinked far too soon’ in plunging the British isles into a second Covid lockdown after remaining warned that gloomy modelling which bounced him into the transfer was ‘very wrong’
  • Mr Johnson was keen to relieve curbs on retail, hospitality and gatherings in June 2020 but was instructed he was ‘too considerably forward of general public opinion’
  • Mr Hancock and best civil servant Simon Circumstance joked about travellers ‘locked up’ in quarantine accommodations all through Covid lockdown
  • The minister reported the Governing administration need to ‘get hefty with the police’ to support crack down on Covid lockdown rulebreakers
  • Mr Hancock’s staff requested if they could ‘lock up’ Nigel Farage following he posted a video of himself in a pub when they suspected he was in breach of regulations
  • The former Wellness Secretary hoped the pandemic would ‘propel’ his occupation ‘into the next league’ and explained he considered he ‘looked great’ in a picture in a MailOnline article 
  • Mr Hancock referred to Rishi Sunak’s Take in Out to Support Out plan as ‘eat out to aid the virus get about’ and lobbied officers not to prolong the plan
  • Mr Hancock clashed with the Treasury, calling Steve Barclay, now the Overall health Secretary, a ‘w***er’ and accused Mr Sunak of ‘showing ankle to the hard right’ by warning of a next nationwide lockdown 
  • In the several hours following his affair with married aide Gina Coladangelo became community, he reported the worst they could be accused of was kissing ‘before they legalised hugs’
  • Ministers sought to take away NHS England boss Lord Stevens just claims soon after Covid was first detected, stating it would be a ‘massive improvement’
  • Mr Hancock plotted to have ‘worse than useless’ and ‘complete loudmouth’ Sir Jeremy Farrar, who is now the WHO’s major scientist, sacked from SAGE
  • Mr Hancock prepared when to ‘deploy’ the news of a new Covid variant to ‘frighten the trousers off’ the general public so they complied with lockdown rules
  • The former Well being Secretary branded the Government’s vaccine tsar Dame Kate Bingham ‘totally unreliable’ and ‘wacky’ immediately after she mentioned only the vulnerable necessary to be vaccinated from Covid
  • Mr Hancock required to be the experience of the vaccine rollout, organizing to do media rounds and ‘own’ the news of the Covid jabs 
  • Mr Hancock tried to hide that he’d consider Ms Coladangelo to a supper with the US wellness secretary
  • Sir Chris encouraged ministers not to enforce the intercourse ban in the course of the pandemic
  • Sir Chris informed ministers Covid jabs couldn’t be quickly-tracked through the early times of the pandemic since the virus wasn’t fatal adequate

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