The UK government may abandon its bid to prevent the release of Boris Johnson’s Covid-19 messages to the Inquiry, to avoid a potentially damaging courtroom showdown. Cabinet Office minister Jeremy Quin informed MPs that the government was in discussions with the head of the inquiry, hoping to avoid the judicial review that was put forward after they missed Baroness Hallett’s deadline last week. Tory MPs voiced their warnings against legal action, stating it could backfire, with former justice secretary Sir Robert Buckland saying the government was almost certain to lose its battle with Baroness Hallett, a former appeal court judge. Johnson has stated he will send all of his messages to the inquiry. Quin said that a courtroom appearance could delay the inquiry’s start and that the matter needed to be solved without going to the courts. Tory grandee Sir Edward Leigh also suggested the approach of ‘letting everything hang out’, while Conservative Chairman of the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee, William Wragg, added that it was determined by Baroness Hallett to “determine” what is relevant to her inquiry.
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