The government has issued a fresh refusal to publish Matt Hancock’s official ministerial diaries from the pandemic, saying there is “no justifiable public interest”.
The decision comes despite a mass leak of the former health secretary’s WhatsApp messages, which have revealed how politicians and officials operated when Covid-19 gripped the country.
Hancock himself has also published a personal memoir about the period. But Freedom of Information requests by openDemocracy for copies of his official schedule of meetings have been repeatedly rejected by the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC).
