Boris Johnson is giving all the WhatsApp messages and diaries available to him directly to the COVID inquiry.
The former prime minister had originally given the information to the Cabinet Office, but it had refused to comply with the inquiry's order to hand over all the material in unredacted form.The Cabinet Office said there are"important principles at stake" - such as the issue of privacy.While I understand the government's position, I am not willing to let my material become a test case for others when I am perfectly content for the inquiry to see it.
Mr Johnson said he was handing over"all unredacted WhatsApps I provided to the Cabinet Office" and said he has asked the department to hand over his notebooks. He said he would"like to do the same with any material that may be on an old phone which I have previously been told I can no longer access safely".
He said that advice should be"test[ed]", and he has asked the Cabinet Office for their help to turn on the device safely to hand over the material.
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