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Covid inquiry chair refutes journalist’s fear of ‘colossal whitewash’ The Guardian says The Covid-19 public inquiry’s chair has insisted the investigation will not be a “whitewash”, after a journalist claimed that concern over the inquiry’s integrity prompted her to publish private messages shared with her by Matt Hancock. Isabel Oakeshott leaked 100,000 WhatsApp messages involving the former health secretary from the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, which are claimed to show he dismissed expert advice to test anyone entering a care home for coronavirus. The massages were shared with her by Hancock while the pair were working on his memoir,…

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Matt Hancock ‘rejected expert advice on Covid testing for care homes’ The Metro says Matt Hancock rejected advice to test all residents going into English care homes for coronavirus at the start of the pandemic, a leaked trove of more than 100,000 WhatsApps allegedly shows. Chief medical officer Professor Sir Chris Whitty told the former health secretary there should be testing for ‘all going into care homes’, according to an investigation by the Daily Telegraph. But the leaked messages suggest he rejected the guidance, telling an aide the move just ‘muddies the waters’, and introduced mandatory testing for those coming…

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