Covid inquiry threatened legal action over Boris Johnson WhatsApp messages

Cabinet Office was warned over refusal to provide former prime minister’s unredacted notes and diaries

The official public inquiry into the government’s handling of Covid threatened the Cabinet Office with legal action over its refusal to share Boris Johnson’s WhatsApp messages and diaries from during the pandemic without heavy redactions.

The inquiry issued a legal notice on 28 April 2023 requesting unredacted WhatsApp communications on devices owned or used by Johnson and his former senior adviser Henry Cook, a close friend of Carrie Johnson’s who has now left government.

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