Warsi: The public has been betrayed, not Matt Hancock

BARONESS WARSI, the former Tory co-chairman, has backed the release of the Lockdown Files as she said it was the public that had been betrayed, not Matt Hancock.

The peer said the cache of Whatsapp messages “needed to be disclosed” because there is “no end date” to the official Covid inquiry.

Speaking on the Steph’s Packed Lunch show on Channel 4 yesterday, she said: “The biggest betrayal and breach of trust is not the fact that these messages have been leaked, the biggest betrayal and breach of trust is the fact that ministers seem to be making decisions based upon political outcomes and political targets, rather than health outcomes based upon science.

“These messages needed to be disclosed because we have a public inquiry ongoing, we don’t know when that is going to report, there’s no end date on it, and people’s lives, livelihoods, relationships have all been impacted by decisions that ministers took.”