The Cabinet Office will seek a judicial review of Covid inquiry chair Baroness Hallett's request to handover WhatsApp messages
exists to learn the lessons from Britain’s greatest national emergency since the Second World War. Lives may be saved or lost in the future.
How can WhatsApp messages cause such a legal inferno? Well, these ones – sent between 40 ministers, officials and scientific advisers, among them– are vital because they are contemporaneous notes. They offer a real-time account of the UK’s response to a pandemic. They will provide uncooked insights that are impossible to find in Whitehall briefing documents, where inconsistencies and inconvenient context are steam-rollered from the page.
Yes, these WhatsApps may shed unflattering light on Britain’s reaction to the virus. So be it. That is the job of inquiries – and this one will be fair and measured.
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