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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Rowena Mason and Aubrey Allegretti

No 10 accused of cover-up after denying it has Boris Johnson Covid messages

Boris Johnson
Government insiders have said handing over Johnson’s unredacted diaries would be an affront to his right to private policy discussion. Photograph: Peter Nicholls/Reuters

Rishi Sunak’s government has been accused of a cover-up after telling the Covid inquiry it did not have Boris Johnson’s pandemic notebooks and WhatsApp messages, even though government lawyers were given the material.

The Cabinet Office has been refusing to hand over unredacted versions of Johnson’s correspondence and documentation, and is now claiming to the inquiry that it does not have the WhatsApps or 24 notebooks in its possession.

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