Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said he is willing to hand over “all unredacted WhatsApp” messages to the COVID-19 inquiry, despite missing an extended deadline on Thursday.
In a letter to Baroness Hallett, who will be chairing the inquiry, the former prime minister said he was willing to hand over all his WhatsApp messages from the relevant period, including material on a phone which he says he stopped using for security reasons.
Johnson’s concession comes hours after the government said it would seek a judicial review of Hallett’s demand that all messages from the former prime minister and his officials should be handed over to the inquiry. The government said it did want to hand over material that was “unambiguously irrelevant.”…