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Evening Standard
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Nicholas Cecil and Lydia Chantler-Hicks

Government seeks judicial review against Covid Inquiry demands for unredacted WhatsApps from pandemic

The government on Thursday sought to bring a judicial review against the Covid Inquiry over its demand that it hand over a swathe of unredacted documents including Boris Johnson’s Whatapps.

The Cabinet Office said it was seeking a judicial review of inquiry chairwoman Baroness Hallett’s order to release the documents, arguing that it should not have to hand over material which is “unambiguously irrelevant”.

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