Former British prime minister Boris Johnson has handed his unredacted WhatsApp messages and notebooks to the UK Cabinet Office, as he called on the government to "urgently disclose" the material to the Covid-19 inquiry.
The Cabinet Office had claimed it did not have access to Mr Johnson's WhatsApp messages and private notebooks, which were demanded by the investigation.
Ministers have so far objected to the release of "unambiguously irrelevant" material. The inquiry had set a deadline of 4pm tomorrow to hand over Mr Johnson’s messages, notebooks and official diaries, having granted a 48-hour extension yesterday.
A spokesman for Mr Johnson said all of the material requested by the investigation had been handed to the Cabinet Office and should be disclosed to it.