Boris Johnson said he would share with the Covid inquiry all the unredacted WhatsApps he provided to the Cabinet Office, as well as material from his old mobile phone.
In a letter to chairwoman Baroness Hallett, he wrote: "I am sending your inquiry all unredacted WhatsApps I provided to the Cabinet Office.
"I would like to do the same with any material that may be on an old phone which I have been previously been told I can no longer access safely. "In view of the urgency of your request I believe we need to test this advice, which came from the security services. "I have asked the Cabinet Office for assistance in turning it on securely so that I can search it for all relevant material.The Cabinet Office, which is responsible for supporting the PM and the Cabinet, has so far refused to hand over some of the documents, arguing that is has no duty to share "unambiguously irrelevant" material.Mr Johnson's letter to Baroness Hallett continues: "The Government yesterday decided to take legal action.
He wrote to the inquiry's chairwoman: "I no longer have physical access to my notebooks because they were removed from my office by the Cabinet Office."If the Government chooses not to do so, I will ask for these to be returned to my office so that I can provide them to you directly."
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