The government has spent months battling to keep Matt Hancock’s official pandemic diary secret – despite the former health secretary publishing a personal memoir about the period that critics say amounts to rewriting history.
Families who lost loved ones during the pandemic call the refusal to release Hancock’s official ministerial diaries “as disgraceful as it is farcical”. Hancock, who recently lost the Tory whip for appearing on ‘I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here!’, released his book ‘Pandemic Diaries: The Inside Story of Britain's Battle Against Covid’ this week.
openDemocracy has fought for the release of Hancock’s official diaries for more than a year. The documents could reveal who the MP was meeting while deciding health policy and handing out million-pound PPE contracts.
