“Dear Isabel, my son committed suicide after lockdown as he missed school and gained a lot of weight. Here is a tiny selection of the reaction to our investigation. However, the astonishing number of letters and emails I have also received from ordinary people thanking the Telegraph for publishing the Lockdown Files is the only answer I need. I know what I think, but since the former Health Secretary accused me of “massive betrayal” for handing more than 100,000 messages to the Telegraph, I have faced a barrage of hostile questions about journalistic ethics. Was it right to reveal the truth about the way we were governed during the pandemic, or should I have sat on WhatsApps I received from Matt Hancock, because I owed him a duty of confidentiality? Is it my job as a journalist to keep politicians’ secrets and protect their reputations – or uncover what they’d prefer to hide, if it’s in the public interest?
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