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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Sophie Wingate

Sunak denies fear of embarrassment behind bid to stop Covid inquiry seeing texts

PA Wire

Rishi Sunak has denied the Government is resisting the release of Boris Johnson’s unredacted WhatsApp messages to the Covid inquiry because he fears embarrassment.

The Prime Minister has been accused of a cover-up after the Cabinet Office announced a High Court challenge of inquiry chairwoman Baroness Hallett’s request for the wholesale handover of his predecessor’s documents from the pandemic.

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