In an interview with Talk TV, journalist Isabel Oakeshott, who leaked Matt Hancock’s private messages to the Telegraph, said she found out about the leak at the same time and later sent him an ‘alarming’ text about it . Oakeshott said he was ‘extremely upset by the way they reacted to it, and I don’t blame them’.
Although she said during Wednesday’s interview on Piers Morgan Uncensored that it was not meant as a personal attack on the former health minister, she acknowledged that her friendship with Hancock had soured. Oakeshott wrote a book with Hancock about his time as health minister during the pandemic