Government to launch Covid inquiry legal challenge

The authorities is to motorboat a ineligible situation implicit the Covid inquiry's request for WhatsApp messages and documents.

Officials were fixed until 4pm to disclose messages betwixt Boris Johnson and his advisers during the pandemic, arsenic good arsenic his diaries and notebooks.

The authorities has refused to disclose immoderate of the material, arguing it is not applicable to the inquiry's work.

But the inquiry's brag says deciding what is applicable should beryllium her job.

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