U.K. government faces deadline to hand Boris Johnson’s messages to coronavirus inquiry

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The British government is facing a Thursday afternoon deadline to hand over a sheaf of former Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s personal messages to the country’s COVID-19 pandemic inquiry — or face legal action from a probe that Johnson himself set up.

and other officials form key evidence that the head of the probe, retired judge Heather Hallett, wants to see.is worried about the precedent that disclosing Johnson’s full, unredacted conversations might set. It has handed over incomplete versions, saying it cut personal and private information that was not relevant to the investigation.

Hallett, however, said “the entire contents of the specified documents are of potential relevance to the lines of investigation being pursued by the inquiry.” Hallett — who has the power to summon evidence and question witnesses under oath — set a deadline of 4 p.m. Thursday for theThe issue has caused tension between

 

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