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Mr Sunak (left) plays down rumors that Mr Cummings (right) played any part in his campaign and will not serve in government if he were to win, according to a clip from the Conservative leadership campaign in July 2022. At a press conference for his Ready4Rishi campaign, the former chancellor told journalists that 'Dominic Cummings has had absolutely nothing to do with this campaign, and he will have absolutely nothing to do with any government that I am proud to lead.' Since Mr Cummings reported that the pair met twice to discuss election plans, but that the Prime Minister was not "considering government seriously," the clip has resurfaced on social media.

During a pat down, Coronation Street Charlie Lawson slammed airport security for touching his genitals during a pat down, during which the actor said he'almost chinned' the male employee. The 64-year-old actor said in a video posted on Instagram that he had been a victim of "intrusive inspections" by overzealous airport security agents during patdowns because he is often identified as Jim McDonald from Corrie. The actor lets out a huge sigh before deciding that he'very nearly chinned someone" and told the security guard: "You'll know all about it if you contact me down there again, son."

EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Will King Charles wear the Scottish crown when he visits Edinburgh in July to receive the Honours of Scotland? The Queen attended the funeral in 1953, but not crowned to discourage talk of a Scottish coronation. This time, with Scotland having its own parliament, the King is under growing pressure to not wear the diadem. Some fear this will fall into nationalist hands, while others believe it will honor Scotland. At least HM is honoring his Scottish roots by wearing a kilt.

EPHRAHIM HARDCASTLE: Isabel Oakeshott, the former harbinger of Matt Hancock, is now able to assist a disgraced king by leaking his personal Covid WhatsApps. 'Dear Prince Andrew,' she says apprehensionably.' "I'll happily ghostwrite your book." If you have no dark information, an NDA [non-disclosure deal] would not be needed.'

PATRICIA NICOL: Who hasn't made a WhatsApp blunder? My husband sent me a note about our teenage son's birthday present. I questioned the expense when I inquired. Then our younger son got involved, and we're ashamed for posting on the family's website. Fortunately, the birthday boy is oblivious to the hastily deleted conversation. Nevertheless, there are "poor, wrong thread" boobs, and then there are errant decisions, such as Matt Hancock's sharing a pandemic's worth of threads with his ghost-writer Isabel Oakeshott.

Sir Chris Whitty said Covid wasn't harmful enough to rush through vaccination testing in a reaction to Dominic Cummings from leaked WhatsApps from the UK's initial pandemic response. Mr Cummings, then senior advisor to Prime Minister Boris Johnson, was worried about a study that showed Israeli scientists were weeks away from developing Covid vaccines. Sir Chris responded that a disease with a fatality rate as low as Covid's would need a "very safe" vaccine, and that they did not want to take any short-cuts. In the next few months, there will be a lot of good vaccine candidates that will be tested in early clinical trials,' he said. The rate limiting steps are late clinical studies for safety and efficacy, as well as manufacturing.' A vaccine must be very safe for a disease with a low (for the sake of argument 11%), so the safety studies can't be skipped.' While Sir Patrick Vallance, the Israeli team's Chief Scientific Adviser, informed Mr Cummings that although their findings might have been useful, it wasn't going to be a matter of 'weeks.' 'All of these steps will take many months at their best and most hopeful best,' he said. Despite years of research, we don't have a vaccine that we know works for Zika.' Since the rollout began in December 2020, nearly 54 million Brits have had at least one dose of a Covid jab.

SARAH VINE: Lately, I've been struck by the realization that we're not so much living in the information age as the way-too-old information age. There are several reasons, really. Not least the endless supply of videos of people sharing all facets of their personal lives, from what they had for breakfast and that boil on their bottom to Prince Harry's musings about his nutty penis and how the police told the world intimately about missing Nicola Bulley's mental and physical health for no apparent reason at all. Non-stop data is being pumped into our computers and our brains, taking up valuable storage in our personal hard drives, which, unless you think about it, serves no other purpose than to make us angry, sad, or simply paranoid.

Last week, his Pandemic Diaries ghostwriter, Isabel Oakeshott, leaked nearly 100,000 of his private texts. Now, homeless families have taken to social media to share about the 'trauma' they suffered during the same time, with some of them going viral. Among them was a student nurse who had to help dying strangers in hospitals, but she was unable to hold her father's hand when he died in Covid. Although one man shared the tragic last conversation he had with his mother before she was put on a ventilator and died, she was not sure. 'My Mam worked in a care home all through the pandemic, and the day I gave her the alert that she was put on a ventilator and died on December 18th.'

Jonathan Coad (right) had been invited to participate in the fallout from the ex-Health Minister's leaked WhatsApp messages, which had been published on GB News on Sunday. Mr Coad said he had warned the show's designers not to mention his links with Mr Hancock. However, when GB News host Steve N Allen appointed Matt Hancock as a prosecutor, it sparked a tumultuous reaction. I made it absolutely clear to your show that I did not tell them not to reveal it.' The lawyer, who claims to have represented royalty, senior MPs, and celebrities, was enraged by his verdict. However, he was later forced to recall after his email about the show was discovered, revealing that he had made a critical mistake. As audience members erupted with laughter, he said, 'You're absolutely correct, it's my mistake I missed out the "not."

Dame Kate Bingham was in charge of coordinating the UK effort to find and manufacture quality Covid-19 vaccines, and she told the Financial Times in October that vaccination of the entire British population was unlikely to occur.' The former Health Secretary said, after being sent her remarks by Damon Poole, Mr Hancock's media advisor, that "We absolutely need No10 to sit on her hard." He then described her as having a look and a wacky way of expressing them, and that she is completely unreliable.' Anything that isn't her idea is regarded as political meddling,' she says. Isabel Oakeshott - Mr Hancock's ghostwriter for the book Pandemic Diaries - sent over 100,000 WhatsApp messages to the journal.

In June 2021, the Health Secretary, who was later forced to resign after his affair with Ms Coladangelo (left), treated his wife to two private dinners with his US counterpart as his guest. Since the full details of his affair were revealed, he later attempted to ban any suggestion she had invited her along from an official ministerial response to a question asked by Labour MP Ben Bradshaw in Parliament. After being coerced to resign from his position, the changes were made to the response by him and his former political advisor Allan Nixon, according to messages. This is the most recent information since Isabel Oakeshott (right), Mr Hancock's ghostwriter, leaked more than 100,000 WhatsApp messages to the public.

Mr Hancock and others recently chatted about how to use an announcement of the Kent version of the virus to compel the public to change their behavior. Cabinet Secretary Simon Case said in January 2021 that the 'fear' factor would be 'essential' in preventing the virus's spread, according to the tweets by journalist Isabel Oakeshott. The conversations in December 2020 suggest that London Mayor Sadiq Khan could take the example of Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham, who had fought with the government over the decision to enforce stringent lockdown restrictions in the area. We should roll pitch with the new strain rather than doing too much forward signalling,' Mr Hancock's advisor said.' With the new strain, we frighten the pants of everybody,' the then Health Secretary said.

Seahorse, an acute medicine specialist who works online, took to Twitter to 'leak' her own collection of WhatsApp messages, exposing the horrible reality of the pandemic for key workers. She chronicled the deep strain on the NHS during the pandemic, including how intensive therapy and high dependency units were full and that there were no free beds for patients in need. As a result of the sheer number of patients, she told a friend that "everyone is waiting 14' hours in the hospital's emergency department, calling it a 'full disaster.' "This is horrible," one of the text messages read. I'm looking at all the patients I saw over the weekend. So many people have died. Never seen anything like it.'

JANET STREET-PORTER: Do you want the country run by a group of jokers who spend their time posting beer mug emojis and smiley faces on WhatsApp? Knee jerk reactions and shared values fuel WhatsApp groups, which have fuelled Twitter conversations. Is WhatsApp the place for a Government minister to debate whether school children should be forced to wear masks - a ruling which would undoubtedly affect their mental health and ability to learn?Or hold group chats about whether care home residents could meet their relatives after months of unnecessary (in my opinion) isolation? A decision that caused a lot of anxiety and in some cases ended in death. We know the senior officials (and it was mainly men) making the most crucial decisions impacting our lives and the lives of our elderly relatives and their families during the worst crisis this country has faced since the war, not in the Cabinet office but often via trivial group chats on WhatsApp.

In June 2021, CCTV photos of the former Health Secretary and Gina Coladangelo in a close embrace were published, sparking a desperate attempt to recruit Tory MPs to assist him. Mr Hancock and his staff's changing position on how to inform the public, from saying that no Covid laws were broken to apologizing for disobeying instructions to resigning. Mr Hancock asked the Department of Health's media consultant how bad the photographs were, to which Mr Poole replied, 'It's a snog and heavy petting.' The then Health Secretary replied: 'How the f*** did anyone photograph that?' Before the then-health secretary replied, 'Dod you snog her in the unit,' Mr Poole asked him, 'Did you snog her in the department.' This is a first offence and genuine,' he later said. At the time, indoor gatherings of two or more people were banned, and instruction advised people not to move at least one meter apart from one another.

Helen Whately (top right), the MP for Faversham and Mid Kent, asked former Health Secretary Matt Hancock if they should toast Piers Morgan after a meeting in March 2021 (bottom right). Mr Hancock replied 'correct' to the tweet, one of the first to be withdrawn from the tranche of more than 100,000 WhatsApps handed to The Telegraph by journalist Isabel Oakeshott. Ms Whately's infamous run-in with Piers a year ago, when he blasted her for sniggering when he inquired about the death toll in England's care homes during the Covid pandemic's early days.

Isabel Oakeshott said the MP for West Suffolk travelled to Australia in November for whom he was paid £320,000, at a 'critical moment' when the pair were collaborating on his book Pandemic Diaries. To The Telegraph, she subsequently handed over a tranche of more than 100,000 text, which she has described as a "cache of very raw signals." Matt Hancock has described her behavior as a "significant betrayal" used to produce "a partial, biased account in accordance with an anti-lockdown strategy.

JAN MOIR: How delighted that the King replied so brilliantly to Harry's 400 pages of wisdom by evicting him and his wife from Frogmore Cottage on the Windsor Estate inset. I like to imagine Charles as muttering, 'I know it was you, Fredo.' You broke my heart!' He signed the eviction note with a fine quill and then firmly pressed his cipher into the hot wax as he pressed his cipher into the hot wax. All the King has to do now is banish Prince Andrew to an ordure-scented bothy on the wilder fringes of the Balmoral estate and my confidence in him will be (almost) restored

Isabel Oakeshott decided to hand over a tranche of more than 100,000 text to The Telegraph from the former Health Minister as she and her husband were collaborating on his book Pandemic Diaries. Following the first batch of bombshell revelations, she accused Mr Hancock of sending her a "threatening" text late Tuesday night. Mr Hancock denied doing so, but described her behavior as a "massive betrayal and breach of trust." Ms Oakeshott, who was curious about how she would talk about her behavior toward Mr Hancock on BBC Radio 4 today, said: "What I'm not going to do, because it wouldn't be pretty," she said.

After learning that the massive cache of evidence had been sent to the Telegraph, Matt Hancock said he told Isabel Oakeshott the'massive betrayal' was only a 'big mistake.' Mr Hancock's first direct statement since the news broke, he was 'hugely distraught and sad' about Ms Oakeshott's behavior. Since all the information used for their Pandemic Diaries book had been submitted to the Covid public inquiry, he said there was "absolutely no public interest case." However, Ms Oakeshott said it would have been inappropriate to'sit on' the treasure trove of private messages between government officials. On BBC Radio 4's Today program, host Nick Robinson argued that her responsibilities are now to the public interest.'

Isabel Oakeshott said she was sent the 'threatening' message by Matt Hancock in the early hours of Wednesday evening, although she had no advance notice of the messages' publication. On Wednesday, she told Piers Morgan Uncensored on TalkTV: "I received a slightly disturbing call at 1.20 in the morning." Ms Oakeshott reported yesterday that she had breached a non-disclosure deal with Mr Hancock, although she argued that her conduct was in the 'public interest.' "One way or another, a great deal of evidence that is overwhelmingly in the public interest and highly relevant to the public inquiry was deleted," Pandemic Diaries' wrote.'

After she leaked a massive cache of his private communications, Matt Hancock is considering taking court action against the co-author of his Covid diaries' co-authorship. Following the leak of 100,000 WhatsApp messages, the former health minister was embroiled in a raging political storm, which is likely to see the publication of private messages involving scores of ministers and officials. After news broke that Mr Hancock had refused government guidance to test all residents of care homes, he came under immediate criticism from bereaved families. journalist Isabel Oakeshott, who was a ghostwriter on Mr Hancock's pandemic 'diaries,' (pictured left at the book launch).

Ministers briefly considered threatening Covid and fear of spreading Covid, according to a former health minister. Lord Bethell said the fear about animals despite the fact that little was known about the disease during the pandemic outbreak in 2020. It comes after The Daily Telegraph revealed details from over 100,000 leaked WhatsApp messages between ministers, officials, and scientists in the pandemic. 'What we shouldn't forget is how little we should know about this illness,' Lord Bethell told Channel 4 News. We were still uncertain about whether domestic pets would carry the disease.'

Mr Hancock had entrusted a treasure chest of behind-the-scenes information to the author and political journalist, as well as his assistance in drafting his enthralling account of the Covid affair. And yet Miss Oakeshott, a journalist with a turbulent past, was still smiling at the launch party on December 5 (pictured above) - even after planning to audaciously double-cross her writing partner.