It would almost be easy to feel a little sorry for Matt Hancock.
Imagine someone leaking your entire WhatsApp history to a national newspaper. Of course, if that person was already a journalist, and you had given them the messages so they could write a book about what a good job you did as health secretary, some might question your judgement. But putting that to one side, the payload that Matt Hancock handed over to Isabel Oakeshott was apparently not something he had meant to see the light of day – not like this, anyway.
Matt Hancock, like so many who ran the country during the pandemic, is evidently a very private person. His WhatsApp history is not the only thing he has tried to keep secret.
