The former prime minister has written to the Covid inquiry chair offering to hand over his notebooks and WhatsApp messages to her team directly
sensitivities and unambiguously irrelevant material and appropriate redactions are being applied.
“It is my understanding that Mr Johnson has possession of that device, and that it is a personal device. On 31 May the Cabinet Office spoke to Mr Johnson’s legal representatives to ask them to check with Mr Johnson that he has possession of the phone, and to confirm this to the Cabinet Office. “On the morning of 1 June, the Cabinet Office emailed to chase for a response. We have not yet received a substantive response. As the Cabinet Office is not, I understand, in possession of the phone, any material stored on the phone is not in the Cabinet Office’s possession or control.”
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