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The WhatsApp messages suggest that Bourne may have publicly downplayed the the true extent of his relationship with Hancock.
In one message, the Health Secretary referred to the Guardian as “a rag” when making Bourne aware of the newspaper's intended story about their connection, to which Bourne responds: "Matt Hancock - never heard of him. We managed to get the chain of events on how we ended up supplying NHS along with supporting evidence that shows you were nothing to do with us.” Bourne then assured Hancock that his lawyers were “all over” the reporter covering the story about their association “like a tramp on chips”. https://twitter.com/PaulLewis/status/1370064532228485125 Bourne first met the Health Secretary while running Hancock's local pub in West Suffolk. Bourne’s manufacturing business, Hinpack, had previously never made medical products, but was contracted by the Government to make test tubes for the NHS Covid tests.
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