BREAKING: The Cabinet Office has lost its legal challenge to the UK Covid-19 Inquiry for Boris Johnson’s unredacted WhatsApp messages, notebooks, and diaries.
The Cabinet Office has refused to provide the documents, arguing the request is ‘so broad’ that it is ‘bound to catch’ a large amount of irrelevant material.
Lord David Pannick KC, on behalf of the former prime minister, argued there is a ‘real danger’ of undermining public confidence in the process if the department wins its bid.lkan Abrahamson, a lawyer at Broudie Jackson Canter representing the Covid-19 Bereaved Families For Justice UK group, said: ‘This is the correct decision to ensure the inquiry maintains its authority and allows it to get to the truth.
‘We hope the Government will accept the decision and, as they keep urging us to do after their breaches of covid rules, ‘move on’. The Government took the highly unusual step of launching the challenge in June, in a move which attracted criticism after days of public wrangling between the Cabinet Office and Lady Hallett’s probe.handed over his unredacted WhatsApp messages, diaries and 24 notebooks to the Cabinet Office in late MayMr Johnson himself is backing Lady Hallett, who rejected the argument that the material was irrelevant in a May ruling, in opposing the legal challenge over the request.
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