Government WhatsApp groups were never used to make important decisions during Covid and instead relayed information and discussed coffee orders, a former health minister has argued.
James Bethell, a hereditary peer whose role involved the awarding of Covid contracts, said he supported the government’s legal attempt to limit the amount of information handed to the official inquiry into the pandemic, as without clarity on limits people could be asked to hand over messages “that you wouldn’t reasonably be happy with”.
