there have been more revelations from the thousands of leaked whatsapp messages sent and received by former health secretary matt hancock during the pandemic. texts published by the daily telegraph seem to show mr hancock joking with a top aide about travellers arriving in the uk being locked up in quarantine hotels. they also discussed the enforcement of lockdown regulations in august 2020. when cabinet secretary simon case asks who is delivering enforcement? matt hancock replies, ithink we are going to have to get heavy with the police . following another meeting injanuary 202i, involving borisjohnson, mr hancock then messages mr case to inform him that the plod got their marching orders . several senior conservatives have expressed anger that sue gray the former senior civil servant who led the inquiry
official are seen tojoke about travellers arriving in the uk being locked up in shoebox quarantine hotels. 0ur political correspondent damian grammaticas has more. february 2021, hotel quarantine. this is where you had to stay by law an airport hotel, for ten days if you arrived from a high risk country. the cost you paid around £2,000 per adult. the very day the policy came in, it s the tone of the text m essa 9 es that s most striking. the very day the policy came in, it s the tone of the text messages the country s most senior civil servant to matt hancock, that s most striking. ten days later, they appear to be loving. any days simon case asks. simon case replies. the telegraph
more than 350 passengers, mainly students returning from a public holiday, were onboard the intercity service heading from athens to thessaloniki when it ploughed head on into a freight train travelling on the same line. rescuers are still searching the wreckage and more than 50 people are being treated in hospital. ministers and senior government officials joked about british travellers being locked up in quarantine hotels at the start of the pandemic. the revelations come in the latest leak of whatsapp messages sent to and from the former health secretary matt hancock. more than 100,000 were handed to the daily telegraph by the journalist isabel 0akeshott, who d been working on a book with him. mr hancock has accused her of a massive betrayal and breach of trust . she insists it was overwhelmingly in the public interest. here s our political editor, chris mason. this was the reality two years ago for some people returning from abroad. they had to spend time in a
classified documents out of these secure locations and put them everywhere including in china thattown in d.c. before chinatown before landing at the penn biden center? well, the quick answer is, is it s the not possible unless you re breaking the law. so, you know, if we had to move a document from the house intelligence committee to, say, the senate intelligence committee which would happen often if we were exchanging letters that document had to be put into a pouch, locked up, carried by someone who had classification authority and then moved over to the senate side where we could go and have a meeting, we could discuss whatever document it is. so there s a lot of unanswered questions here. and if you look back to how all began, this started in 2021 when somebody at the archives decided, hey, we got a plan to get trump, he s got some documents, we think. so there was a back and forth, and people at the higher echelons of the doj and the biden white house who desperate9ly wan