Ouch! Have I Got News for You’s brutal joke about Hancock WhatsApp ‘betrayal’
The IndependentSign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The joke writers at Have I Got News for You have shared a brutal dig following the publishing of Matt Hancock’s WhatsApp messages. A post on the official Twitter account of the BBC comedy show Have I Got News for You on Thursday took aim at Hancock over the scandal. “As Matt Hancock describes leaking of text messages as ‘a massive betrayal’, his ex-wife says she knows the feeling,” the post read. One of the most shocking revelations to come out of the WhatsApp leak to date is an exchange between Hancock and former education secretary Gavin Williamson, who wrote to his fellow Tory minister that teachers “really really do just hate work”.