Boris Johnson's notebooks and WhatsApp messages have been handed to the Cabinet Office in their "full and unredacted" form, a spokesperson for the former prime minister has confirmed.
It comes after the chairwoman of the Covid-19 inquiry, Baroness Heather Hallett, demanded evidence including Mr Johnson’s messages, notebooks and official diaries from the pandemic. The inquiry set a deadline of 4pm on Thursday (June 1) to hand over the documents, having granted a 48-hour extension on Tuesday.
It is understood all the material requested by the inquiry has now been handed to the Cabinet Office. The Cabinet Office had initially claimed it did not have access to the messages and notebooks and ministers had objected to the release of “unambiguously irrelevant” material.
