The latest leaked messages show Matt Hancock suggested 'getting heavy' with police during the pandemic.
Former Health Secretary Matt Hancock mocked people in quarantine during lockdown and suggested getting "heavy with the police", leaked texts show.
Other texts show Boris Johnson describing a £10,000 fine on two people who broke quarantine rules as "superb".The messages, which the BBC has not independently verified or seen in their full context, were among some 100,000 sent between ministers and officials during the pandemic, and handed to The Telegraph by journalist Isabel Oakeshott.
He has described the leak as a "massive betrayal" used to produce "a partial, biased account to suit an anti-lockdown agenda".
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