Minister increases pressure on government to provide unredacted notes so inquiry can ‘get on with job’
A cabinet minister has piled pressure on the government to hand over Boris Johnson’s unredacted WhatsApp messages to the Covid inquiry, saying it should be allowed to “get on with its job”.
“There are things which we did that were very good,” Shapps told TalkTV. “Things will have gone wrong, naturally. The inquiry is there to get to the bottom of all of that.”– including notebooks and WhatsApp messages – on Wednesday. His team say the Cabinet Office did have access to the details for months and had been invited to view them on multiple occasions at his office.
A potential judicial review was discussed at top-level meetings on Wednesday, the Guardian has been told. But Tory MPs have urged the government to climb down and hand over the files, or else seek a compromise with Heather Hallett, the chair of the Covid inquiry. “If she simply accepts the word of somebody else that the material is irrelevant, she will not, in my view at least, have done as thorough a job as she should have,” Saville told Times Radio.
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