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Boris bypasses Rishi to tell Covid inquiry it can have his unredacted messages

Ex-PM says he is keen to provide messages from his old phone – discarded for security reasons

The Independent UK

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

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

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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

The Guardian - UK

Covid inquiry ‘may be flawed if it doesn’t get all documents it needs’

Lord Saville backed Baroness Hallett’s demand that the inquiry team should decide what material is relevant or not

Evening Standard

Deadline looms in Covid inquiry row as Boris Johnson says WhatsApps can be given

The Cabinet Office has confirmed it has received the information from Mr Johnson

Evening Standard

Deadline looms again in Covid inquiry row as Johnson says WhatsApps can be given

The Cabinet Office has confirmed it has received the information from Mr Johnson.

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Sunak warned government faces embarrassing loss in ‘bizarre’ battle over Boris WhatsApps

‘Cards are stacked’ against government if row goes to court, says former legal chief

The Independent UK

Mel Stride: Covid inquiry will be given information ‘it is right for it to have’

The Work and Pensions Secretary said the Government would hand over material to the inquiry ‘where it is appropriate’.

The Independent UK

Covid inquiry extends deadline over Johnson messages as No 10 denies cover-up

Former prime minister Boris Johnson insisted he has ‘no objection’ to handing over the evidence.

The Independent UK

A fight over Boris Johnson’s WhatsApps? The dither and delay of Britain’s Covid inquiry is a disgrace

Sweden’s pandemic postmortem is done, yet ours seems headed for the courts before it has even begun, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

The Guardian - UK

No 10 denies ‘cover-up’ as Covid inquiry struggles to get Boris Johnson messages

The Cabinet Office told the official investigation it does not possess the former prime minister’s WhatsApp messages or notebooks.

The Independent UK

Covid inquiry: what’s in Boris Johnson’s WhatsApps?

Boris Johnson and other senior members of his government are likely to ignore a new legal deadline to hand over unredacted messages sent during the pandemic to the Covid-19 public inquiry.

The Week

What is happening with Boris Johnson and the Covid inquiry and why it matters for Wales

'There's some cover-up going on here to save embarrassment of ministers. But there's also the Cabinet Office fighting for a principle of confidentiality'

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Evening Standard

Legal battle looms over Boris Johnson’s Covid WhatsApp messages

Ministers could be set for a legal row with the Covid Inquiry over the requested release of unredacted WhatsApp messages belonging to Boris Johnson

The Independent UK

Covid inquiry legal battle looms over Johnson WhatsApp requests

Ministers could be set for a legal row with the Covid Inquiry over the requested release of unredacted WhatsApp messages belonging to Boris Johnson.

The Independent UK

Deadline looms to release Boris Johnson messages in Whitehall Covid inquiry clash

Government faces being dragged to court by own inquiry unless they comply with chair’s demand

Daily Mirror

Ministers down to wire as deadline to release Boris Johnson's Covid WhatsApps looms

The row comes after the Cabinet Office handed extracts from Boris Johnson's prime ministerial diaries which showed potential lockdown breaches to the police without telling him

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The Independent UK

The battle for Boris’s secret WhatsApps: Tory frustration as ex-PM ‘drags down party’

Tory MPs ‘seething’ over new row involving Johnson, as ex-PM cuts ties with government-appointed lawyers

The Independent UK

5 key takeaways from row over Boris Johnson’s Covid inquiry WhatsApps

What did the inquiry want and why wouldn’t the government give it to them?

The Independent UK

Cabinet Office and Covid inquiry in legal row over release of Johnson WhatsApps

The Cabinet Office has been threatened with legal action over a row with the Official Covid-19 Inquiry over the release of the material.

The Independent UK

Covid inquiry threatens legal action after Boris Johnson’s WhatsApps ‘withheld’

Fresh row comes as ex-PM cuts ties with government-appointed lawyers after he was referred to police

Daily Mirror

Covid inquiry slams Government bid to block Boris Johnson's unredacted WhatsApps

It relates to messages sent between the ex-PM and dozens of high-profile figures, including Rishi Sunak, cabinet ministers, No10 advisers and spin doctors

The Guardian - UK

Covid inquiry threatened legal action over Boris Johnson WhatsApps

Cabinet Office warned of potential criminal punishments over refusal to provide former PM’s unredacted notes and diaries

The Independent UK

Covid inquiry demands Tory ministers hand over WhatsApp messages

Public inquiry chair says she wants ‘all relevant WhatsApp messages’ from pandemic

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