Matt Hancock ‘joked Bill Gates Covid vaccine conspiracy theory by telling aides the Microsoft billionaire ‘owes me one’ given ‘how many people I get his chips injected into’, lockdown leaks reveal
- The health minister referred to claims that Gates used a vaccine to track people
- It’s another revelation after 100,000 of his WhatsApp messages were leaked
Matt Hancock joked that Bill Gates “owes me one” because of “how many people I get his chips injected into” during the pandemic, according to leaked WhatsApp messages.
The then health minister referred to unfounded claims that Gates developed Covid-19 in a lab and used the vaccine to implant microchip tracking devices into billions of people.
At the time, Hancock hoped to get the Microsoft billionaire to help promote the country’s expertise in identifying coronavirus variants around the world.
On January 25, 2021, Hancock’s media advisor Damon Poole asked him via WhatsApp if he was with the Director-General of the World Health Organization Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on the New Variant Assessment Platform (NVAP) – a service that provides the UK with expertise in detecting new variants of the virus.
Conspiracy theorists claimed that Bill Gates (pictured) developed Covid-19 in a lab and used the vaccine to implant microchip tracking devices in humans
Matt Hancock (pictured) joked that Bill Gates “owes me one” because of “how many people I get his chips injected into”
Mr Poole then said: ‘No promises, but I’m trying to secure a Bill Gates endorsement of the platform.’
In response, Hancock said, “Given the number of people I’m injecting his chips into, tell him he owes me one!”
The reveal is one of many published by The Telegraph after the paper got more than 100,000 WhatsApp messages from Mr Hancock’s phone by the journalist to whom he entrusted them to ghostwrite his book Pandemic Diaries.
Journalist Isabel Oakeshott claimed ‘he didn’t tell me he’ was going to Australia because I’m a celebrity and he ‘disappeared to the jungle at a critical moment in very difficult dealings with the Cabinet Office’.
She then handed The Daily Telegraph 100,000 of Mr Hancock’s WhatsApp texts, which she described as a ‘cache of very raw communication’.
The MP has since said her actions were a “massive betrayal” used to produce “a partial, biased account befitting an anti-lockdown agenda”.
Other reports have revealed that Hancock was advised by Chris Whitty, England’s chief medical officer, to test all residents going into care homes for Covid. Still, he did not follow the recommendation – which he said was due to test shortages at the time.
Texts said Cabinet Secretary Simon Case joked with Mr Hancock about confining travelers arriving in the UK to quarantine hotels.
And according to reports, Mr Hancock told ministers to ‘get heavy with the police’ to enforce lockdown rules.
The most recent revelation revealed that Hancock took his sweetheart Gina Coladangelo to private dinners with the US Secretary of State at a G7 summit, before later deleting the suggestion that he invited her.
The Minister of Health, who was later forced to resign after his affair with Ms Coladangelo came to lighttook his lover, whom he had been seeing for a month, to two private dinners with his American counterpart as a guest.
Representatives for Matt Hancock have been contacted by MailOnline for comment.
