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PM called Matt Hancock 'totally hopeless' in WhatsApp message, Cummings claims
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June 16, 2021
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4:13Now PlayingDominic Cummings has shared a WhatsApp message in which the PM appears to call Matt Hancock's efforts "totally hopeless".
The PM's former chief aide published a lengthy blogpost that he claimed showed details of how "Number10/Hancock have repeatedly lied about the failures last year".
Amid his more than 7,000 words, Mr Cummings also included a series of screenshots from what he said were his WhatsApp exchanges while working in Downing Street during the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic last year.
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