UK Covid inquiry to scrutinise Boris Johnson’s WhatsApp messages
The UK Covid-19 public inquiry will scrutinise internal communications within the highest levels of government, including WhatsApp messages between Boris Johnson, cabinet colleagues and senior government officials, its lead counsel told a procedural hearing on Tuesday.
Hugo Keith KC launched the inquiry’s second — and politically most sensitive — module, which will examine “the UK’s core political and administrative decision-making” during the early stage of the pandemic up to the imposition of the first national lockdown in late March 2020.
Keith said the inquiry chair Baroness Heather Hallett and her team were determined to obtain all relevant information as they sought to answer “the single most important question . . . Would lives have been saved if lockdowns had been imposed earlier or differently?”
This story originally appeared on: Financial Times - Author:Clive Cookson
