Politics professor James Alexander says the Lockdown Files do not prove the Government’s pandemic response was driven by careerism and political calculation. He still detects the hands of conspirators at work.
The Telegraph's Lockdown Files reveal that most Covid restrictions were based on political expediency and cowardice, yet the rest of the mainstream media would rather attack Isabel Oakeshott than question themselves.
Matt Hancock's calls to “frighten the pants off everyone" and "deploy the new variant" are new lows in the already incredibly sordid tale that is the Lockdown Files.
When Nigel Farage posted photographs of himself online breaking lockdown rules, Matt Hancock contacted the Home Office to see if he could get him in trouble. Now Farage is feeling vindicated for ignoring the "pipsqueak".
Matt Hancock was enraged by what he called the "f***ing Sweden argument" and told his aides to “supply three or four bullet points of why Sweden is wrong", leaked WhatsApp messages from the Lockdown Files have revealed.
Matt Hancock told ministers and the country’s most senior civil servant that they needed to “get heavy with the police” to crack down on the public during the Covid pandemic.
Is the trouble with British democracy that it produces politicians as dysfunctional as Matt Hancock, or that it gives politicians so much power in the first place?
The 'Lockdown Files' confirm that there was no 'plandemic'. Matt Hancock was desperately trying to save his skin while careering from pilar to post. He didn't have a driving manual to his clown car, let alone a plan.
The Telegraph has got hold of a cache of WhatsApp messages between Matt Hancock and the main decision-makers during the pandemic. It confirms our worst suspicions. They weren't 'following the Science'. It was a clown show.
