>*The Cabinet Office has lost its legal challenge over the UK Covid-19 inquiry chairwoman’s request for Boris Johnson’s unredacted WhatsApp messages, notebooks and diaries.*
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>*The government will not appeal*
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>*In their ruling, the High Court judges set out some of the contested documents.*
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>*One of the types sought by the inquiry “were the WhatsApp messages in a group chat which had been established for the purpose of communicating about the UK Government’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic”, they say.*
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>*”Another class of documents sought were the specific threads of WhatsApp messages exchanged between ministers and advisers who were dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic.*
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>*”The diaries and notebooks sought were very likely to contain information about decision-making relating to the Covid-19 pandemic and therefore ‘relate to a matter in question at the inquiry'”, the judges add.*
Too fucking right they should.
It’s obvious there’s going to be a clanger after clanger being dropped from the shitshow that was the pandemic response.
It’s fucking amazing that the information security stance on communication in what should be one of, if not the most protected groups of people in the country who likely discuss Top Secret information regularly appears to be messages over WhatsApp.
I would dearly love to know how much taxpayer’s money has been wasted by these last 13 years’ of Tory governments as they repeatedly go to court to fight cases they will inevitably lose because they don’t have a legal leg to stand on and they know it.
And then I would dearly love for my memory to be erased because I’m sure the answer would make me both angry and depressed.
“We have investigated ourselves and have found we are guilty of nothing!”
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>*The Cabinet Office has lost its legal challenge over the UK Covid-19 inquiry chairwoman’s request for Boris Johnson’s unredacted WhatsApp messages, notebooks and diaries.*
​
>*The government will not appeal*
​
>*In their ruling, the High Court judges set out some of the contested documents.*
>
>*One of the types sought by the inquiry “were the WhatsApp messages in a group chat which had been established for the purpose of communicating about the UK Government’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic”, they say.*
>
>*”Another class of documents sought were the specific threads of WhatsApp messages exchanged between ministers and advisers who were dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic.*
>
>*”The diaries and notebooks sought were very likely to contain information about decision-making relating to the Covid-19 pandemic and therefore ‘relate to a matter in question at the inquiry'”, the judges add.*
Too fucking right they should.
It’s obvious there’s going to be a clanger after clanger being dropped from the shitshow that was the pandemic response.
It’s fucking amazing that the information security stance on communication in what should be one of, if not the most protected groups of people in the country who likely discuss Top Secret information regularly appears to be messages over WhatsApp.
I would dearly love to know how much taxpayer’s money has been wasted by these last 13 years’ of Tory governments as they repeatedly go to court to fight cases they will inevitably lose because they don’t have a legal leg to stand on and they know it.
And then I would dearly love for my memory to be erased because I’m sure the answer would make me both angry and depressed.
“We have investigated ourselves and have found we are guilty of nothing!”
– Our country, unironically