Overview

• The UK Government is challenging the demand for Boris Johnson's unredacted WhatsApp messages, diaries, and personal notebooks by the UK Covid Inquiry.
• British government seeks to stop public inquiry into its handling of COVID-19 pandemic
• Johnson backs Covid inquiry chairwoman in legal clash with Government
• The Cabinet Office is bringing a judicial review, arguing that the inquiry does not have the legal power to force ministers to release irrelevant documents.
• Johnson wants the inquiry to have access to all potentially relevant documents and believes it is consistent with the objectives of the inquiry.