The government has launched legal action against the inquiry's demand to see the messages in full.
The former prime minister has not handed over any messages from before April 2021 - more than a year into the pandemicHis decision is in contrast with the government's. It has launched a legal challenge to the inquiry's demand that it hand over messages from the former PM and other officials.
In April 2021, it emerged that Mr Johnson's personal mobile phone number had been freely available on the internet for 15 years, leading to concerns over the device's security. He added he no longer had access to his contemporaneous notebooks as he handed these to the Cabinet Office."I have asked that the Cabinet Office pass these to you. If the government chooses not to do so, I will ask for these to returned to my office so that I can provide them to you directly."
On Thursday, the department said it would "with regret" be launching a judicial review of the demand, but promised to "continue to cooperate fully with the inquiry". Speaking to the BBC's Question Time, Science minister George Freeman said he thought the "courts will probably take the view" that Baroness Hallett is entitled to decide "what evidence she deems relevant".
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