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Drivetime with Suella Braverman

Inside Briefing with the Institute for Government

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The Cabinet Office and Its Lawyers Are Still Refusing to Comply With the COVID Inquiry

Cabinet office and its lawyers are still refusing to comply. They've got now 14 days to decide whether to challenge it, do digital review or indeed for Baron Asalut herself to challenge their intransigence. Do you think there's a real prospect of Johnson and his lawyers taking the COVID inquiry to court all vice versa? I think what's more likely is that the cabinet office has tried it on here because for me, I do understand the reasons for wanting to redact certain entries. Some of these messages are between Boris Johnson and a very, very senior advisor in number 10 who also just happens to be a close friend personally. You can imagine the kind of entries that

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