The Cabinet Office is to launch a legal challenge over the Covid inquiry's order to hand over Boris Johnson’s WhatsApp messages, diaries and notebooks.
It was given a deadline of 4pm on Thursday to provide messages between the former prime minister and his advisers during the pandemic, as well as his diaries and notebooks.
The Cabinet Office, in a letter to the inquiry, said it was bringing a judicial review challenge "with regret" but that there were "important issues of principle at stake". "We do so with regret and with an assurance that we will continue to co-operate fully with the inquiry before, during and after the jurisdictional issue in question is determined by the courts, specifically whether the inquiry has the power to compel production of documents and messages which are unambiguously irrelevant to the inquiry's work, including personal communications and matters unconnected to the Government's handling of Covid.
Boris Johnson's call for the information he submitted to the Cabinet Office to be handed over to the inquiry put pressure on Rishi Sunak to provide the requested material."Individuals, junior officials, current and former ministers and departments should not be required to provide material that is irrelevant to the inquiry's work. It represents an unwarranted intrusion into other aspects of the work of government.
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