Lockdown Files significant person Matt Hancock
The Lockdown Files are a series of articles in The Daily Telegraph containing evidence, analysis, speculation, and opinion relating to more than 100,000 WhatsApp messages obtained from former health secretary Matt Hancock that were leaked to them.The material, relating to the COVID-19 lockdown in the United Kingdom, was given to The Telegraph by Isabel Oakeshott, who had worked with Hancock on his book Pandemic Diaries. Oakeshott said that the release of these messages was motivated by the slow pace of the UK Covid-19 Inquiry and her concern that the findings might be a "whitewash", citing public money being used in legal action to redact the names of officials.Boris Johnson, then prime minister
Rishi Sunak, then Chancellor of the Exchequer
Matt Hancock, Health Secretary
Dominic Cummings, then Chief Adviser to the Prime Minister
Simon Case, Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Gina Coladangelo, an aide employed by Hancock who was involved in an extramarital affair with Hancock
Damon Poole, Hancock's media advisor
Jamie Njoku-Goodwin, media special advisor
George Osborne, a former Chancellor of the Exchequer from whom Matt Hancock received advice. Osborne was also the editor of the London Evening Standard; Hancock tried to get Osborne to publish favourable stories about him in the paper.
Michael Gove, then Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
Dido Harding, Executive chair of NHS Test and Trace
Patrick Vallance, Chief Government Scientific Advisor
Chris Whitty, Chief medical officer
Allan Nixon, Department of Health Parliamentary Special Adviser
Helen Whately, Minister of for Social CarePeople mentioned in messages