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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Ben Glaze

Boris Johnson accuses government of 'frustrating' Covid Inquiry over WhatsApps

Boris Johnson has launched a blistering attack on the Cabinet Office for refusing to give his WhatsApp messages to the Covid Inquiry.

The ex-Prime Minister waged war on the Government department by accusing officials of “frustrating” the probe led by Baroness Heather Hallett.

In his first intervention since dramatically quitting as MP for Uxbridge and South Ruislip on Friday, the shamed former Premier fired a broadside at Whitehall in its ongoing standoff with the peer over WhatsApp texts sent and received by top ministers and officials at the height of the coronavirus pandemic.

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