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Evening Standard
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Nicolas Cecil

Rishi Sunak under pressure over Covid inquiry legal battle as Boris Johnson hands over WhatsApps

Rishi Sunak is facing a growing row over the Government’s legal battle to withhold some unredacted documents from the Covid Inquiry which even a minister admitted was likely to fail.

The Prime Minister was warned by Theresa May’s former chief-of-staff Lord Barwell that the Government was making a “bad mistake” in seeking a judicial review in the clash with the inquiry.

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