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Published in: Home: NewsUK government ignored our letters, Welsh minister tells Covid inquiryVaughan Gething accuses UK ministers including Matt Hancock of hampering Welsh pandemic prep by refusing to engage
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Published in: Home: NewsMatt Hancock blames everybody but the government at Covid inquiryThe former health secretary criticised local councils, civil servants and the World Health Organisation over UK failures
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Published in: Home: NewsKey takeaways as Whitty and Vallance give evidence to Covid inquiryPair say UK lacked capacity to ‘scale up’ testing and treatment, and not enough was done about health inequality
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Published in: Home: NewsRevealed: Government knew it had prioritised NHS ‘to detriment of care homes’Explosive admission made in top secret Covid ‘lessons learned’ review obtained by openDemocracy after two-year battle
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Published in: Home: NewsGovernment won’t claim it ‘did everything right’ during the pandemicIt marks a change in tone from Boris Johnson's claims that he and the Tory government got the “big calls right”
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Published in: Home: ExplainerEverything you need to know about the UK Covid-19 inquiryYour guide to the independent inquiry into Britain’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic, which kicks off on 13 June
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Published in: Home: NewsGovernment defies watchdog order to hand over Hancock’s Covid diariesDepartment of Health and Social Care may be held in contempt of court for missing information commissioner’s deadline
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Published in: Freedom of Information: NewsMatt Hancock loses battle to keep his real Covid diaries secretInformation Commissioner’s Office sides with us after two-year battle to find out what Hancock really did in 2020
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Published in: Home: InvestigationExclusive: NHS hospitals told to share patient data with US ‘spy-tech’ firmPalantir, whose owner claimed the NHS ‘makes people sick’, will ‘collect and process confidential patient information’
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Published in: Freedom of Information: NewsHancock’s official Covid diaries ‘not in public interest’, government saysExclusive: The health department has again refused to publish Matt Hancock's official diary – despite WhatsApp leaks
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Published in: Home: OpinionHancock WhatsApp leak is karma for government’s failures on transparencyOPINION: Former health secretary refused to hand over official diaries, then wrote his own version of history instead
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: InvestigationMPs claimed £1m in six years to heat their second homesExclusive: Suella Braverman and Matt Hancock are among the biggest claimers, while ordinary families struggle with...
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Published in: Home: AnalysisHow austerity caused the NHS crisisThe A&E delays can be traced back to Cameron – and have been worsened by successive health secretaries
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Published in: Freedom of Information: News‘Farcical’ government refuses to publish Hancock’s official pandemic diariesFormer health secretary has published memoirs as a book – but department of health won’t hand over his official diary
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Published in: Home: NewsExclusive: Moonlighting MPs raked in £9.6m from second jobs in a yearMPs’ earnings outside the Commons have doubled year-on-year as Labour unveils plans to clamp down on side hustles
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Published in: Home: OpinionWith ‘I’m a Celeb’, Matt Hancock insults bereaved families like mineOPINION: I lost my dad to Covid. The former health secretary is wrong to go on I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here...
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Published in: Freedom of Information: NewsGovernment loses 18-month fight to keep ‘Covid lessons learnt’ review secretDepartment of Health and Social Care officials battled openDemocracy to avoid releasing the internal document
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Published in: Freedom of Information: InvestigationBoris Johnson refuses to publish his official pandemic diariesExclusive: Government blocks release of 18 ministers’ calendars – including those of the PM and Matt Hancock
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Published in: Home: OpinionThe flailing PM is rewriting history to claim ‘COVID success’. Don’t let himBoris Johnson looks set to cling to ‘the vaccine rollout’ in an effort to stay afloat. In truth, he failed on COVID
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: News‘No record’ of Matt Hancock meeting Tory donor who owns stake in £346m COVID contractExclusive: UK government accused of ‘very serious’ transparency failure over meeting with private health firm...
