Government rules out searching Matt Hancock’s private emails. What does Johnson NOT want to find?
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Despite admitting that Matt Hancock used his private email address to carry out government business, Boris Johnson’s gang won’t check his private emails to find out what he did in them.
Why not?
It seems the government has no record of much of Hancock’s decision-making during the pandemic, and this is because he carried out his business by private email.
Government guidelines expressly demand that ministers who use their personal emails for Parliamentary business should “take steps to ensure the relevant information is accessible” but it seems clear that Hancock hasn’t bothered.
Otherwise, why would The Sunday Times state that no record exists to show how Hancock negotiated PPE contracts, created the test-and-trace programme and oversaw the care homes strategy?
The nation needs to know about these matters because we need to know how much money he wasted on the first two, and how many lives he wasted on the third.
It seems clear that the only reason the government won’t go through Hancock’s emails is fear of embarrassment; he was incompetent at best, and a search could reveal the kind of mistakes that are actionable in court.
The claim to have been through 1.4 million documents already, so checking Hancock’s mail won’t be necessary, is clearly a smokescreen. Why do all that work when you can get all the information you need just by looking at one person’s emails?
The Good Law Project is already calling for Hancock’s inbox and outbox to be examined.
If the information won’t be provided willingly, perhaps this organisation should seek a court order?
Source: Government rules out searching Matt Hancock’s private emails – BBC News
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