Matt Hancock rejected Covid care home testing advice, leaked messages suggest

Investigation alleges then health minister ignored guidance to give tests to all residents going into English care homes

Matt Hancock rejected advice to give coronavirus tests to all residents going into English care homes, an investigation based on a leaked trove of more than 100,000 WhatsApp messages alleges.

The MP denied the “distorted account”, with a spokesperson alleging the messages leaked by the journalist Isabel Oakeshott after she worked on his Pandemic Diaries memoir have been “spun to fit an anti-lockdown agenda”.