Bereaved families have praised the High Court’s decision to force the government to hand over unredacted evidence to the Covid inquiry.
The Cabinet Office had launched a judicial review of the inquiry’s demand for disclosure of official communications that included diaries and WhatsApps between ministers and senior officials – among them potential evidence that Boris Johnson had breached his own lockdown rules.
A spokesperson for Covid Bereaved Families for Justice, the group that pushed for the inquiry in the first place, said today: “This judicial review was a desperate waste of time and money.
