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What the papers say – June 2

The fight over Boris Johnson’s WhatsApp messages is the main story covered across Britain’s front pages.

The Independent UK

Government set for legal battle with Covid inquiry over Johnson messages

Ministers are seeking to challenge the request for Boris Johnson’s unredacted WhatsApp messages and notebooks.

The Independent UK

Gordon Brown: Tories will not be remembered for their convictions

Gordon Brown addressed an Our Scottish Future Rally in Edinburgh on Thursday evening about reforming the UK.

The Independent UK

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150 questions the Covid inquiry wants Boris Johnson to answer

Covid Inquiry to investigate whether ex-prime minister said ‘let the bodies pile high’

The Independent UK

Key questions for Boris Johnson from the Covid inquiry

The Covid Inquiry sent Boris Johnson a list of 150 questions and requests for his witness statement, documents have shown.

The Independent UK

Johnson ‘more than happy’ to hand material to Covid inquiry amid legal battle

The Cabinet Office on Thursday confirmed it was seeking a judicial review of inquiry chairwoman Baroness Hallett’s document request.

The Independent UK

Boris Johnson fails to hand 16 months of WhatsApps to Covid inquiry from old phone

The former PM was forced to switch phone in April 2021 after it emerged that his personal number had been freely available online for 15 years

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The Guardian view on the Covid-19 standoff: it’s a matter for the inquiry

Editorial: Lady Hallett should be able to decide what is relevant in Boris Johnson’s papers – not the Cabinet Office

The Guardian - UK

Boris Johnson fails to hand over crucial WhatsApps

Cabinet Office says ex-PM has only provided info from May 2021 and later

The Independent UK

Covid inquiry v Cabinet Office: who is ahead now deadline has passed?

Ministers are taking legal action against the inquiry, which, if successful, would mean it could not see Johnson’s unredacted messages

The Guardian - UK

UK Government launches legal battle to prevent release of Boris Johnson's WhatsApps

The UK Government will fight a legal battle over the Covid inquiry’s demand to release Boris Johnson’s unredacted WhatsApp messages, diaries and…

The National (Scotland)

Government triggers court battle against Covid inquiry after Boris Johnson WhatsApp row

The Cabinet Office was given until 4pm today to hand over a trove of Boris Johnson's WhatsApp messages and notepads to the Covid-19 public inquiry after days of wrangling

Daily Mirror

Government to take legal action against Covid inquiry over Johnson WhatsApps

Cabinet Office serves notice on inquiry chair at 4pm, the deadline she had set for it to hand over files

The Guardian - UK

Ukrainian sanctions on media tycoon Alexander Lebedev revealed

The Russian businessman is the father of Evgeny Lebedev, who was given a peerage by Boris Johnson

The Guardian - UK

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The Guardian - UK

Boris Johnson’s messages are just the start of it: the government is run on WhatsApp

If off-the-record messaging is a worrying trend, the real problem is that Westminster is one big gentlemen’s club, says French journalist Marie Le Conte

The Independent UK

Sunak government takes Covid inquiry to court to protect Boris’s WhatsApps

PM refuses to back down in extraordinary row, as Cabinet Office announces judicial review

The Guardian - UK

Digested week: imagining what comes next for Succession’s dislikable characters

A note-perfect finale, Boris Johnson’s WhatsApp messages and my role in an England cricketing hero’s downfall

The Independent UK

Deadline passes for Government to hand over Johnson papers to Covid inquiry

With just minutes to go before the deadline, Rishi Sunak said the Government was still considering its next steps.

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Evening Standard

Sunak says Government ‘confident’ in position on Covid Inquiry demands

Rishi Sunak was speaking less than an hour before a deadline to hand over Boris Johnson’s papers and WhatsApp messages

Daily Mirror

Boris Johnson 'ranted f*** this s*** in foul-mouthed tirade over Rishi Sunak'

Guto Harri, Mr Johnson's former communications chief, said the former PM burst out 'f*** this s***' in a foul-mouthed rant about the Treasury as relations with Rishi Sunak deteriorated

Evening Standard

Covid inquiry ‘may be flawed if it doesn’t get all documents it needs’

Lord Saville backed Baroness Hallett’s demand that the inquiry team should decide what material is relevant or not

Daily Mirror

Black people were THREE times more likely to receive Covid fines in England and Wales

Black people were about three times more likely to be hit with a fine for breaking coronavirus lockdown rules across England and Wales, new research has revealed

The Guardian - UK

Rishi Sunak ‘confident’ on Covid inquiry position as deadline to hand over Boris Johnson documents passes – as it happened

If Cabinet Office has failed to comply with inquiry’s order to disclose the documents it could face legal battle

The Independent UK

Conversion therapy ban must have no loopholes, says Stonewall

A Bill is expected to be published soon although the Government has not given a date.

The Week

Is Boris Johnson tearing the Conservative Party apart?

It is almost a year since many Tories decided that Boris Johnson would have to go, “yet a whole two prime ministers later, it’s almost as if he never left”, said Gaby Hinsliff in The Guardian.

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