Good morning. The interminable saga of Boris Johnson’s lockdown WhatsApps has arrived at a new confrontation ahead of today’s deadline set by the Covid inquiry, after the former prime minister handed a cache of his messages over and urged the Cabinet Office to provide all the relevant materials itself.
Another opaque political row about texting is apt to make you feel that the inquiry is just one more Westminster bunfight. Yesterday, however, the Guardian published another story that serves as a reminder of why the broader scope of its investigations, and how decisions over how to handle the pandemic were taken, will be so important.
