.NickFerrariLBC repeatedly asks Health Secretary SteveBarclay if it's right for the Cabinet Office to try to block Boris Johnson's unredacted WhatsApps from being sent to the COVID Inquiry.
Health Secretary Steve Barclay stopped short of saying it was right for the Cabinet Office to make the "challenge".Steve Barclay repeatedly said it was right that the legal position was "clarified", as Boris Johnson said he would hand over "all unredacted WhatsApps", but the government is attempting to block these from being given to the inquiry.
Steve Barclay replied: "Well I've complied with whatever the inquiry requested, so I have obviously submitted, as many ministers have, a witness statement. The Cabinet Office is currently testing a legal aspect around messages so -" "Do you agree to that testing?" Nick asked. "You used to run the Cabinet Office, of course, last year as I recall. Are they right to challenge that request?"
"I think the Cabinet Office is right to clarify what the legal position is, and whatever the outcome of that is, of course as a minister I will comply fully with that", the Health Secretary responded.
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