According to the leaked messages Matt Hancock said the UK would need to get ‘get heavy with the police’ to enforce lockdown rules.
The Telegraph reported other messages showing Mr Hancock and Mr Case celebrating people arriving in the UK being placed into ‘quarantine hotels’.
More than a week later, the civil servant messaged: ‘Any idea how many people we locked up in hotels yesterday?’ Mr Hancock said there was ‘absolutely no public interest case for this huge breach’ as all the materials would have been used for his Pandemic Diaries book.
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