WhatsApps about 'private lives' of No 10 staff to be kept from Covid inquiry

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WhatsApps about 'private lives' of No 10 staff to be kept from Covid inquiry
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The Cabinet Office has been given 48 hours to produce in full material from a string of current and former ministers, scientific advisers and officials at the height of the pandemic

A Cabinet Office spokesperson said: “We are fully committed to our obligations to the Covid-19 inquiry. As such, the Cabinet Office alone has already provided upwards of 55,000 documents, 24 personal witness statements, eight corporate statements and extensive time and effort has gone into assisting the inquiry fulsomely over the last 11 months.

Leaked legal advice from one of the Government’s top lawyers suggests documents recording discussions between senior ministers should not be disclosed “as a matter of course” because doing so would undermine Cabinet collective responsibility – the convention that ministers can disagree in private but show a united front in public.

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