LONDON (AP) — As Britain’s prime minister, Boris Johnson established an independent inquiry into his government’s handling of the COVID\u002D19 pandemic.
The inquiry said if the WhatsApp messages and notebooks can’t be produced, the government must provide witness statements from senior officials setting out what efforts have been made to find them.
Johnson’s office said the former leader had “no objection to disclosing material to the inquiry,” but that decisions on redactions were for the Cabinet office, a government department, to make. The U.K. has recorded more than 200,000 deaths among people with COVID-19, one of the highest tolls in Europe, and the decisions of Johnson’s government have been endlessly debated. Johnson agreed in late 2021 to hold an inquiry after pressure from bereaved families.Article content
The inquiry has already landed Johnson in hot water. He was one of dozens of people fined last year for breaking his own government’s pandemic lockdown rules in the so-called partygate scandal. Earlier this month, government-appointed lawyers helping Johnson prepare his submissions and testimony came across evidence of more potential breaches of COVID-19 restrictions.
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