Former British prime minister Boris Johnson has given his pandemic-era notebooks and messages to the government and urged officials to pass them on to an independent Covid-19 inquiry, his spokesman said yesterday.
The Cabinet Office, which is responsible for overseeing the operation of government, is in a standoff with the inquiry over whether it should hand over material it deems to be irrelevant to the investigation.
“All Boris Johnson’s material – including WhatsApps and notebooks – requested by the Covid inquiry has been handed to the Cabinet Office in full and in unredacted form,” the spokesman’s statement said.
“Johnson urges the Cabinet Office to urgently disclose it to the inquiry.” The inquiry will cover the government’s management of the pandemic, particularly at the beginning when Britain was slower than many European countries to respond.
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