Over 100,000 WhatsApp messages attributed to former British health secretary Matt Hancock were recently leaked to the Telegraph by the journalist with whom he penned his book, "Pandemic Diaries."
Hancock's correspondences have since provided Britons with some insight into the machinations and thinking of their government at the outset of the pandemic.
For instance, they learned that at one stage via messages from Hancock's deputy in the Department of Health and Social Care from 2020 to 2021 that ministers had considered exterminating all cats in the isles to prevent the spread of COVID.