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Matt Hancock leading a press briefing during his time as health secretary. Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images
Matt Hancock leading a press briefing during his time as health secretary. Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images
Thu 15 Jul 2021 01.00 EDT
The government gave âVIP treatmentâ to a firm offering Covid testing facilities which had entered the system âinformallyâ because Matt Hancock was âa good friendâ of somebody working with the company, according to internal emails seen by the Guardian.
The Animal Health Trust (AHT) had a laboratory based in Newmarket, in the then health secretaryâs West Suffolk constituency, and much of its work focused on medical care for horses, including for the horse racing industry with which Hancock has close ties.
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