Newspaper headlines: Ministers defy Covid inquiry and Schofield speaks

A fig of Friday's papers pb with the quality the authorities is taking its ain Covid enquiry to judicial reappraisal aft refusing to manus implicit a cache of messages sent betwixt erstwhile premier curate Boris Johnson and 40 others during the pandemic. The header successful the Metro reads: "See you successful court".

The Cabinet Office is maintaining that to taxable each the messages unredacted would interruption individuals' privateness and harm aboriginal decision-making, but ineligible experts deliberation the reappraisal is apt to fail, according to the i.

The Daily Mail says the authorities has "gone to war" with Baroness Hallett, the retired justice starring the inquiry, but that, successful "another twist", Mr Johnson has said helium would beryllium "more than happy" to manus his messages straight to her.

Legal documents published connected Thursday amusement that the messages Mr Johnson has truthful acold fixed to the Cabinet Office lone statesman successful May 2021, much than a twelvemonth into the pandemic, according to the Times. The insubstantial says Mr Johnson began utilizing a caller telephone that period aft it emerged his fig was disposable online and that, according to a spokesman, his aged telephone has been switched disconnected since connected the "advice of information officials". The spokesperson added that Mr Johnson has "absolutely nary objection whatsoever" to providing contented from the aged telephone if doing truthful would beryllium imaginable "without compromising security".

The Guardian says that, successful a missive to Baroness Hallett sent connected Thursday, the Cabinet Office said the ineligible process was being launched "with regret and with an assurance that we volition proceed to cooperate afloat with the inquiry", but adds that the determination has been "condemned by bereaved families and absorption MPs".

Speaking to the Financial Times, Labour lawman person Angela Rayner accuses Prime Minister Rishi Sunak of engaging successful a "desperate effort to withhold evidence". She adds that "these latest smoke-and-mirror tactics service lone to undermine the Covid inquiry" and that "the nationalist deserves answers".

The Sun carries the archetypal interrogation with Phillip Schofield since his resignation from ITV's This Morning past Friday. Schofield stood down aft it emerged helium had had an matter with a workfellow connected the amusement immoderate 30 years his junior. Schofield tells the insubstantial helium is "utterly breached and ashamed" but insists helium did not groom the man.

Holly Willoughby, who is acceptable to instrumentality to hosting This Morning from Monday, plans to co-operate "fully" with an outer reappraisal of the controversy, the Daily Mirror reports, citing friends. The insubstantial carries photos of Willoughby connected vacation successful Portugal and quotes a root saying she is keen to get backmost to enactment and has "nothing to hide".

The Daily Telegraph says that constabulary person impounded a pleasance cruiser pursuing the deaths of a 12-year-old miss and a 17-year-old lad successful the h2o disconnected Bournemouth formation connected Wednesday. The insubstantial says the vessel near Bournemouth Pier astatine 16:00 BST, 7 minutes earlier the archetypal telephone to the exigency services. It adds that Dorset Police person said determination was nary carnal interaction betwixt immoderate vas and swimmers erstwhile the incidental occurred. In an update connected Thursday, constabulary said the probe was successful its aboriginal stages and that detectives were moving to found the circumstances that led to the deaths.

House prices dropped by 3.4% successful the twelvemonth to May, the largest autumn successful 14 years, according to the Daily Express. The insubstantial says the driblet was caused by hikes successful involvement rates and the rising outgo of living, adding that it has led to predictions that "storm clouds are gathering" for the spot market.

And the Daily Star reports that fractional the country's food and spot shops could spell bust by 2025 but tells its readers they tin assistance by "shoving conscionable 2 other portions down your gob". The header reads: "Your chippy needs you".