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-**The Lockdown Files** is the name of a series of articles published by [[The Telegraph]] based on 100,000 [[WhatsApp]] messages allegedly leaked to the outlet.((The Lockdown Files Team. (2023, March 4). //“Project Fear” authors discussed when to “deploy” new Covid variant.// The Telegraph. http://archive.today/2023.03.05-190819/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/03/04/project-fear-covid-variant-lockdown-matt-hancock-whatsapp/))+**The Lockdown Files** is the name of a series of articles published by //[[The Telegraph]]// based on 100,000 [[WhatsApp]] messages allegedly leaked to the outlet.((The Lockdown Files Team. (2023, March 4). //“Project Fear” authors discussed when to “deploy” new Covid variant.// The Telegraph. http://archive.today/2023.03.05-190819/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/03/04/project-fear-covid-variant-lockdown-matt-hancock-whatsapp/))
  
 ===== History ===== ===== History =====
  
 The messages were leaked by journalist [[Isabel Oakeshott]], who was given copies of them while working on [[Matt Hancock]]'s "Pandemic Diaries" memoir.((Telegraph Readers. (2023, March 1). //“The messages show a blatant disregard for human quality of life.”// The Telegraph. https://archive.ph/0WwDc)) ((Penna, D. (2023, March 1). //Matt Hancock claims “doctored” WhatsApp leak “fits anti-lockdown agenda.”// The Telegraph. https://archive.ph/HhO6W)) The first Lockdown Files article was published February 28, 2023. Many articles in the series do not list an author. The messages were leaked by journalist [[Isabel Oakeshott]], who was given copies of them while working on [[Matt Hancock]]'s "Pandemic Diaries" memoir.((Telegraph Readers. (2023, March 1). //“The messages show a blatant disregard for human quality of life.”// The Telegraph. https://archive.ph/0WwDc)) ((Penna, D. (2023, March 1). //Matt Hancock claims “doctored” WhatsApp leak “fits anti-lockdown agenda.”// The Telegraph. https://archive.ph/HhO6W)) The first Lockdown Files article was published February 28, 2023. Many articles in the series do not list an author.
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 +On March 5, [[Mathew Crawford]] shared one of the articles titled "[[https://archive.ph/26dLs|‘Project Fear’ authors discussed when to ‘deploy’ new Covid variant]]", stating "It looks like I was right about omicron being a release, not an emergent strain."((Mathew Crawford [@EduEngineer]. (2023, March 5). //“It looks like I was right about omicron being a release, not an emergent strain.”// [Tweet]. Twitter. http://archive.today/2023.03.05-221707/https://twitter.com/EduEngineer/status/1632181950252298240)) 
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 +On March 10, [[Liam Sturgess]] warned that the series appeared to be a [[limited hangout]] operation.((Rounding the Earth. (2023, March 10). //Limited Hangout Files - Rounding the News.// Rumble. https://rumble.com/v2cfwx6-limited-hangout-files-rounding-the-news.html))
  
 ===== Articles ===== ===== Articles =====
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   * March 3, 2023: [[https://archive.ph/ccOUV|Former police chief rejects Matt Hancock's Covid 'marching orders' in leaked WhatsApp texts]] by [[Ewan Somerville]]   * March 3, 2023: [[https://archive.ph/ccOUV|Former police chief rejects Matt Hancock's Covid 'marching orders' in leaked WhatsApp texts]] by [[Ewan Somerville]]
 +  * March 3, 2023: [[https://archive.ph/gjMEp|I broke the lockdown rules – and pipsqueak Matt Hancock couldn’t stop me]] by [[Nigel Farage]]
 +  * March 3, 2023: [[https://archive.ph/hRp3Q|Matt Hancock hoped Covid could propel career ‘into next league’ as virus hit China]]
 +    * Also titled "Matt Hancock praised his own pictures in media and hoped Covid crisis would be the making of him"
 +  * March 3, 2023: [[https://archive.ph/BgxR8|Matt Hancock ridiculed Rishi Sunak’s Eat Out to Help Out scheme]]
 +  * March 3, 2023: [[https://archive.ph/exPjr|Matt Hancock’s expletive-laden outburst as he clashed with Rishi Sunak over lockdown]]
 +    * Also titled "Why Matt Hancock labelled Treasury colleagues ‘w---ers’"
 +  * March 3, 2023: [[https://archive.ph/DX2RL|Time for the lockdown nostalgics to confront the true horror of what Britain lived through]] by [[Camilla Tominey]]
 +  * March 3, 2023: [[https://archive.ph/2pvDg|The WhatsApp messages that expose Rishi Sunak and Matt Hancock’s lockdown power struggle]]
 +  * March 3, 2023: [[https://archive.ph/31S3o|Matt Hancock said worst he and Gina could be accused of was kissing ‘before they legalised hugs’]]
 +  * March 3, 2023: [[https://archive.ph/7L23I|Revealed: George Osborne’s advice to Matt Hancock on affair with Gina Coladangelo]]
 +  * March 3, 2023: [[https://archive.ph/BCc4h|Inside Matt Hancock’s 41-hour scramble to save his career after Gina Coladangelo affair revealed]]
  
 === March 4 === === March 4 ===
  
 +  * March 4, 2023: [[https://archive.ph/sLQiG|Was I right to leak Matt Hancock's WhatsApp messages? Here's what you told me]] by [[Isabel Oakeshott]]
 +  * March 4, 2023: [[https://archive.ph/bllU4|The Lockdown Files: 10 things we’ve learned so far]]
 +  * March 4, 2023: [[https://archive.ph/una5f|Matt Hancock ‘not at all happy’ as Michael Gove made ‘a play for his job’]]
 +  * March 4, 2023: [[https://archive.ph/joHfr|What Sunak and Hancock really thought of Dominic Cummings]]
 +  * March 4, 2023: [[https://archive.ph/Wj0Kp|Matt Hancock's campaign to remove NHS chief revealed]]
 +  * March 4, 2023: [[https://archive.ph/YLLdh|How Matt Hancock plotted to have 'useless loudmouth' Covid scientist sacked]]
 +  * March 4, 2023: [[https://archive.ph/5wDwy|Leak reveals how Boris Johnson veered from lockdown sceptic to zealot]]
   * March 4, 2023: [[https://archive.ph/KqbqH|‘Project Fear’ authors discussed when to ‘deploy’ new Covid variant]]   * March 4, 2023: [[https://archive.ph/KqbqH|‘Project Fear’ authors discussed when to ‘deploy’ new Covid variant]]
 +  * March 4, 2023: [[https://archive.ph/TEbkq|Matt Hancock's plan to ‘frighten the pants off everyone’ about Covid]]
 +
 +=== March 5 ===
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 +  * March 5, 2023: [[https://archive.ph/dJ7am|The hidden tensions between Matt Hancock and his ‘wacky’ Covid vaccines tsar]]
 +  * March 5, 2023: [[https://archive.ph/guqgE|Inside Matt Hancock's desperate bid to be known as 'Mr Vaccine']]
 +    * Retitled to [[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/03/05/matt-hancock-triumph-covid-vaccine-lockdown-files-whatsapp/|How Matt Hancock sought to hog the Covid vaccine limelight]]
 +  * March 5, 2023: [[https://archive.ph/8XlCZ|The inconvenient questions the Covid inquiry must answer]] by [[Esther McVey]]
 +  * March 5, 2023: [[https://archive.ph/LeY00|Matt Hancock covered up inviting Gina Coladangelo to G7 dinners]]
 +  * March 5, 2023: [[https://archive.ph/DxGQr|Matt Hancock cracks joke about Bill Gates Covid conspiracy]]
 +  * March 5, 2023: [[https://archive.ph/BxGYa|Project Fear’s ‘psychological warfare’ must never be repeated, say lockdown rebels]] by [[Dominic Penna]]
 +  * March 5, 2023: [[https://archive.ph/ZMtDX|Leak reveals Simon Case's private warning about Boris Johnson]]
 +    * Also titled "Simon Case’s private warning about Boris Johnson"
 +  * March 5, 2023: [[https://archive.ph/0I7pP|Matt Hancock rejected advice to cut Covid isolation as it would ‘imply we’ve been wrong’]]
 +  * March 5, 2023: [[https://archive.ph/fsPDl|I worked with Matt Hancock on vaccines - he's a headless chicken]] by [[Clive Dix]]
 +    * Retitled to [[https://web.archive.org/web/20230305232805/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/03/05/clive-dix-matt-hancock-headless-chicken-lockdown-files/|I know what it's really like to work with Matt Hancock]]
 +  * March 5, 2023: [[https://archive.ph/GX48Q|How Matt Hancock chose saving face over ending unnecessary ‘pingdemic’]]
 +    * Retitled to [[https://archive.ph/B7pnB|The leaked messages that reveal how Matt Hancock chose saving face over cutting Covid quarantine]]
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 +=== March 6 ===
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 +  * March 6, 2023: [[https://archive.ph/kGQan|‘Sex ban’ during lockdown sparked fierce debate, leaked WhatsApp messages reveal]]
 +  * March 6, 2023: [[https://archive.ph/s4oDY|Consultants were paid total of £1m a day to work on NHS Test and Trace, leaks reveal]]
 +  * March 6, 2023: [[https://archive.ph/IwUWN|Matt Hancock’s secret plan to import French Covid patients]]
 +  * March 6, 2023: [[https://archive.ph/vs3BX|Jacob Rees-Mogg: We were denied evidence we needed to make anti-lockdown case]] by [[Daniel Martin]]
 +  * March 6, 2023: [[https://archive.ph/WC7ui|Simon Case must take his share of the blame for chaotic lockdown decision-making]] by [[Fraser Nelson]]
 +  * March 6, 2023: [[https://archive.ph/JzzXu|How ‘off the boil’ MPs who criticised lockdowns were placed on secret red list]]
 +    * Also titled "The secret spreadsheet that targeted MPs critical of lockdown"
 +  * March 6, 2023: [[https://archive.ph/pKUaS|Matt Hancock’s plot to block funding for disabled children if MP opposed lockdown]]
 +
 +=== March 7 ===
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 +  * March 7, 2023: [[https://archive.ph/tbJeB|Matt Hancock should be arrested for wilful misconduct in public office]] by [[Allison Pearson]]
 +  * March 7, 2023: [[https://archive.ph/Zw5IT|How sober, professional WhatsApp conversations descended into chaos]] by [[Camilla Tominey]]
 +  * March 7, 2023: [[https://archive.ph/yvkxg|Covid not deadly enough to fast-track vaccines, Chris Whitty advised ministers]]
 +  * March 7, 2023: [[https://archive.ph/JRceE|The messages that reveal how Britain was plunged into lockdown]]
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 +=== March 8 ===
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 +  * March 8, 2023: [[https://archive.ph/C0cM6|MP lobbied NHS chief on behalf of firm that paid him £1,600 a month]]
 +  * March 8, 2023: [[https://archive.ph/xpYnc|No one believed the Covid Wuhan lab leak theory – then the world changed its tune]] by [[Sarah Knapton]]
 +  * March 8, 2023: [[https://archive.ph/Eymbk|Upsetting China is the Government's biggest taboo, as I found out the hard way]] by [[Isabel Oakeshott]]
 +  * March 8, 2023: [[https://archive.ph/5HjWs|Matt Hancock Covid memoirs censored over Wuhan lab leak comments]]
 +
 +=== March 9 ===
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 +  * March 9, 2023: [[https://archive.ph/yth3N|Britain may well repeat its lockdown blunders sooner than anyone thinks]] by [[Fraser Nelson]]
 +  * March 9, 2023: [[https://archive.ph/q1qBX|Covid variant that ruined Christmas hidden by scientists from ministers for months]]
 +  * March 9, 2023: [[https://archive.ph/DQQnZ|Ministers feared 'racist' label if they spoke about Covid spread]]
 +  * March 9, 2023: [[https://archive.ph/dtz2i|No 10 to consider Wuhan leak theory after backlash to 'entirely coincidental' remark]]
 +  * March 9, 2023: [[https://archive.ph/Mho80|Lockdown supporters called me a killer – they should be disgusted with themselves]] by [[Karol Sikora]]
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 +=== March 10 ===
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 +  * March 10, 2023: [[https://archive.ph/0duqU|Scientists dismissed Covid lab leak theory ‘as they feared ban on high-risk experiments’]] by [[Sarah Knapton]]
 +  * March 10, 2023: [[https://archive.ph/Ri7xZ|Was Sweden right about Covid all along?]] by [[Fraser Nelson]]
 +  * March 10, 2023: [[https://archive.ph/DCCJL|How ministers were warned lockdowns could be worse than Covid itself]]
 +  * March 10, 2023: [[https://archive.ph/5vRY5| Simon Case warned Boris Johnson of the ‘terrible’ consequences of lockdown]]
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 +===== External links =====
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 +==== Videos ====
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 +==== Profiles ====
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 +  * [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockdown_Files|Wikipedia]]
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