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The Latest Breaking News from Covid-19

Government likely to lose Covid inquiry legal challenge, says minister

Science minister George Freeman said ‘it’s a point worth testing’.

The Independent UK

Key questions for Boris Johnson from the Covid inquiry

The Covid Inquiry sent Boris Johnson a list of 150 questions and requests for his witness statement, documents have shown.

The Independent UK

Johnson ‘more than happy’ to hand material to Covid inquiry amid legal battle

The Cabinet Office on Thursday confirmed it was seeking a judicial review of inquiry chairwoman Baroness Hallett’s document request.

The Independent UK

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Boris Johnson fails to hand 16 months of WhatsApps to Covid inquiry from old phone

The former PM was forced to switch phone in April 2021 after it emerged that his personal number had been freely available online for 15 years

Daily Mirror

The Guardian view on the Covid-19 standoff: it’s a matter for the inquiry

Editorial: Lady Hallett should be able to decide what is relevant in Boris Johnson’s papers – not the Cabinet Office

The Guardian - UK

Boris Johnson fails to hand over crucial WhatsApps

Cabinet Office says ex-PM has only provided info from May 2021 and later

The Independent UK

Covid inquiry v Cabinet Office: who is ahead now deadline has passed?

Ministers are taking legal action against the inquiry, which, if successful, would mean it could not see Johnson’s unredacted messages

The Guardian - UK

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From the Shootout to the Giro d'Italia hot seat - Who is Matthew Riccitello?

American was the youngest rider in the Giro, setting the 11th fastest time in stage 20

Cycling News

UK Government launches legal battle to prevent release of Boris Johnson's WhatsApps

The UK Government will fight a legal battle over the Covid inquiry’s demand to release Boris Johnson’s unredacted WhatsApp messages, diaries and…

The National (Scotland)

Government seeks judicial review of Covid inquiry’s demand for Johnson documents

The Cabinet Office said it was taking the step ‘with regret’.

The Independent UK

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

Meanwhile Boris Johnson says he is ‘more than happy’ to hand over his messages and notebooks directly

Evening Standard

Government triggers court battle against Covid inquiry after Boris Johnson WhatsApp row

The Cabinet Office was given until 4pm today to hand over a trove of Boris Johnson's WhatsApp messages and notepads to the Covid-19 public inquiry after days of wrangling

Daily Mirror

Government to take legal action against Covid inquiry over Johnson WhatsApps

Cabinet Office serves notice on inquiry chair at 4pm, the deadline she had set for it to hand over files

The Guardian - UK

Boris Johnson’s messages are just the start of it: the government is run on WhatsApp

If off-the-record messaging is a worrying trend, the real problem is that Westminster is one big gentlemen’s club, says French journalist Marie Le Conte

The Guardian - UK

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The Independent UK

Sunak government takes Covid inquiry to court to protect Boris’s WhatsApps

PM refuses to back down in extraordinary row, as Cabinet Office announces judicial review

The Guardian - UK

Digested week: imagining what comes next for Succession’s dislikable characters

A note-perfect finale, Boris Johnson’s WhatsApp messages and my role in an England cricketing hero’s downfall

The Guardian - UK

On Covid, the past is being erased and the present ignored

Letters: ‘Don’t mention the virus’ has become a mantra, says Joan Twelves, while Joe Sim and Steve Tombs say the government is silencing discussion about the disease. Plus one reader describes how her husband’s death was not recorded as caused by Covid

The Guardian - UK

Making sure our public inquiries get results

Letters: We need a more rigorous system of accountability, says Michael Bichard, while Graham Murphy says we can’t rush the Covid inquiry

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The Independent UK

Deadline passes for Government to hand over Johnson papers to Covid inquiry

With just minutes to go before the deadline, Rishi Sunak said the Government was still considering its next steps.

The Guardian - UK

George Osborne destroyed Britain’s safety net. The Covid inquiry should shame him into silence

His iniquitous austerity programme left the population sick, vulnerable, and unprepared for a pandemic, says the Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

Evening Standard

Sunak says Government ‘confident’ in position on Covid Inquiry demands

Rishi Sunak was speaking less than an hour before a deadline to hand over Boris Johnson’s papers and WhatsApp messages

Reuters

UK government refuses to hand over WhatsApp messages to COVID inquiry

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's government on Thursday said it would not hand over internal WhatsApp messages requested by a public inquiry into its handling of the COVID-19 pandemic and instead seek a legal challenge against the demand.

Edinburgh Live

West Lothian's Civic Centre café to start taking cash for first time since covid

Councillors agree that card only payment excludes many from using public facility in Civic Centre and drops pandemic ban on cash

Bike Perfect

Bespoken Word – the price of everything...

After the crazy cost increases of Covid, bike businesses are hacking prices everywhere trying not to be the ones that go bust after the boom. But Guy Kesteven reckons there’s more to whether something is really a bargain or not than the amount of money saved on the price tag

The Independent UK

Anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist guilty of plotting to destroy 5G masts

Christine Grayson, who believed the 5G masts were linked to the Covid-19 vaccine, has been convicted at Leeds Crown Court

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