The official COVID-19 inquiry has requested the government provide former Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s unredacted WhatsApp messages and diary entries exchanged with senior government ministers, civil servants, and their advisers during the pandemic.
The chair of the UK COVID-19 Inquiry, Lady Hallet, wrote to the Cabinet Office (pdf), requesting the unredacted data, which she said were “of potential relevance to the lines of investigation being pursued by the Inquiry.”
The inquiry has been set up to examine the UK’s response to and impact of the pandemic. It was announced by Johnson in May 2021 and started its work a year later….