Rishi Sunak has refused to back down in the extraordinary row over Boris Johnson’s messages, as his government launched legal action against the Covid inquiry in a last-ditch attempt to protect the material.
Mr Sunak was accused by Labour and the Liberal Democrats of a “cover-up” and a “cowardly” attempt to obstruct the inquiry, while former civil service chief Robert Kerslake told The Independent: “They are in a hole and they should stop digging.”
