Ministers will set up a legal showdown with the official Covid inquiry on Tuesday as they formally refuse a request to hand over thousands of Government messages from the height of the pandemic HugoGye reports
including by passing fresh claims of lawbreaking to the Privileges Committee which is probing whether he lied to Parliament over the issue.
Baroness Hallett argues that to be able to investigate the circumstances in which coronavirus hit the country, she needs unrestricted access to all communications between senior ministers. One question she is understood to be considering is whether Boris Johnson and his inner circle were sufficiently focussed on the looming threat before it was too late to change the outcome.
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