Boris Johnson ditches government-appointed lawyers for Covid inquiry

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Boris Johnson volition nary longer enactment with government-appointed lawyers for the Covid inquiry, aft helium was referred to the constabulary implicit further imaginable regularisation breaches during the pandemic.

Allies of the erstwhile PM said helium had mislaid each assurance successful the Cabinet Office, which handed implicit the material.

The Cabinet Office said officials had been obliged to disclose the documents nether civilian work rules.

No 10 said neither ministers nor the PM were not progressive successful the decision.

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