this may be the beginning of an exposure that would be good for us, belatedly;

Matt Hancock joked that Bill Gates ‘owes me one’ because of ‘how many people I’m getting his chips injected into’ during the pandemic, leaked WhatsApp messages have revealed.

The then Health Secretary referred to unfounded claims that Gates had developed Covid-19 in a lab and used the vaccine to implant microchip tracking devices into billions of people.

Hancock at the time was hoping to get the Microsoft billionaire to help in promoting the country’s expertise in identifying coronavirus variants around the world.

On January 25 2021 Hancock’s media adviser Damon Poole asked him via WhatsApp if he had spoken to the director general of the World Health Organisation Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus about the New Variant Assessment Platform (NVAP) – a service offering the UK’s expertise in detecting new variants of the virus.

Mr Poole then said: ‘No promises but I’m trying to land a Bill gates endorsement of the platform.’

In a response, Hancock said: ‘Tell him that considering how many people I’m getting his chips injected into, he owes me one!’..........more........