The bitter row between Rishi Sunak’s government and the Covid Inquiry has intensified after the Cabinet Office mounted a fresh attempt to block access to Boris Johnson’s notebooks or old phone containing crucial WhatsApp messages from the pandemic
enraged lawyers for families bereaved by Covid, as well as those representing other groups at the inquiry.
“It is particularly cognisant of potential national security issues and, in addition, it reserves its position on whether unambiguously irrelevant material should be provided to the inquiry by any person in advance of the resolution of the judicial review.Lady Hallett said: “The Cabinet Office is in possession of Mr Johnson’s notebooks.
Thalia Maragh, representing the Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice UK, told the inquiry earlier: “Quite frankly it beggars belief that just a week short of the commencement of oral evidence in this inquiry, your focus, that of your team, and the focus of bereaved families are being diverted by the Cabinet Office’s legal challenge.
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