Drivetime with Suella Braverman
Inside Briefing with the Institute for Government
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The COVID Inquiry and Boris Johnson's Stern Letter
Some of Boris Johnson's WhatsApp's have been redacted or were redacted when they were sent over to the inquiry. Arguably, from the cabinet office, this is point of view because they were not relevant to the inquiry but were just politically embarrassing,. But the inquiry set up under the Public Enquiries Act has the powers to insist on it and if not, you can send people to jail. And so insisted that they get the full, unredacted versions across. He was not happy that this was then revealed in the way that it then came out. So he wrote a stern letter to Marinus Halot saying, I don't want you to reveal this. Can you delay putting
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