Isabel Oakeshott today warned she could “deploy the nucelar weapons” if Matt Hancock “poke’s the hornet’s nest”. The journalist is at the centre of a row about the leak of the former health secretary’s correspondence.
Mr Hancock gave the WhatsApps to Ms Oakeshott as they collaborated on his memoirs, but she subsequently handed them to the Telegraph newspaper, which has published a series of stories based on the messages.
Ms Oakeshott told The News Agents podcast: “My priority is not protecting my relationship with Matt Hancock.
“I’m not going to get into a ‘he said, she said’ war of words with Matt about how he behaved towards me during or after that project.
“There’s plenty I could say, I’m not going to do that.
“Insofar as possible I would like to make this not about him or about me, because it isn’t.
“We are so not going to get into the moral highground, trust me.
“I’m not going to deploy the nuclear weapons but I have them.”
Ms Oakeshott added: “He should not poke the hornet’s nest.”
Podcast host Lewis Goodall pressed: “Because there are things you could say which would be very damaging to him?”
Ms Oakeshott said: “Yes. I’m not going to do it not unless I’m pushed to it.”
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