Ministers lose legal challenge over Boris Johnson WhatsApps

Ministers had initially resisted handing over full tranche of unredacted documents to Covid inquiry

The government has lost its legal challenge to block Boris Johnson’s unredacted WhatsApps, notebooks and diaries from being handed over to the official Covid inquiry, after a ruling by the high court.

Judges said the diaries and notebooks “were very likely to contain information about decision-making” during the Covid pandemic, erring on the side of the inquiry chair, Heather Hallett.

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Source: The Guardian