EMBATTLED Matt Hancock dramatically broke his silence today over 100,000 leaked WhatsApp messages he sent to ministers and officials during the pandemic.
The ex-Health Secretary slammed the huge data dump as a “massive betrayal”.
Matt Hancock and Isabel Oakeshott pose together at his Pandemic Diaries book launch in December last year
And he hit back at accusations he sent “menacing messages” to Isabel Oakeshott, the journalist who broke a non-disclosure leak the texts to The Telegraph.
“I am hugely disappointed and sad at the massive betrayal and breach of trust by Isabel Oakshott,” Mr Hancock fumed.
“Isabel repeatedly reiterated the importance of trust throughout, and then broke that trust.”
