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Government Loses Legal Challenge Against Handing Over Boris Johnson’s WhatsApps to Covid Inquiry

by Will Jones
6 July 2023 5:30 PM

The Cabinet Office has lost its legal challenge against handing over Boris Johnson’s unredacted WhatsApp messages, notebooks and diaries to the Covid Inquiry. The Mail has the story.

The department had asked the High Court to rules on inquiry chair Baroness Hallett’s order to release the documents.

The Government argued that it should not have to hand over material that is “unambiguously irrelevant” – saying a point of principle was at stake even though Mr. Johnson himself had no objection.

Ruling today, Lord Justice Dingemans and Mr. Justice Garnham dismissed the claim for judicial review, but said the Cabinet Office could make a different application to Lady Hallett.

The Government said it will “comply fully” with the judgment, while insisting the case had clarified important issues.

At a hearing last month, lawyers for the department argued the inquiry does not have the legal power to force ministers to release documents and messages it says cover matters “unconnected to the Government’s handling of Covid”.

However, Hugo Keith KC, for the inquiry chairwoman, said the idea that the Cabinet Office could decide which aspects were relevant “would emasculate this and future inquiries”.

A ridiculous legal challenge that the Government inevitably lost and only made it look like it has something to hide. Which presumably it does.

Worth reading in full.

Tags: Boris JohnsonCensorshipCovid InquiryCOVID-19Hallett InquiryLockdownLockdown FilesWhatsApp Mesages

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JohnK
JohnK
1 year ago

I wouldn’t be too blasé saying “Gov inevitably lost..”, but it does increase my confidence in the judges! Also reported on GBN recently.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
1 year ago
Reply to  JohnK

Call me paranoid but my guess is the judges’ motivation is to expose evil Tory incompetence and corruption rather than getting to the real truth about covid.

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Jon Smith
Jon Smith
1 year ago

“unredacted”….. Highly unlikely.

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Will L
Will L
1 year ago
Reply to  Jon Smith

BREAKING.. the Daily Sceptic has received the first glimpse of Johnson’s papers.. verdict.. clear as mud.. 😉

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RTSC
RTSC
1 year ago

Squeaky bum time for Gove, Cummings and Sunak me-thinks.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
1 year ago
Reply to  RTSC

I wish I could believe that, but the whole premise of the inquiry is that there was a pandemic, so the focus will be on poor execution of the stupid, evil rubbish they made up pretending it was to do with public health. The basic lie will not be exposed in our lifetime because there are too many vested interests who were all in on it in some way or another. In fact, name a powerful institution in the rich world that wasn’t an enthusiastic supporter of the covid scam.

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Will L
Will L
1 year ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

Yes TOF.. name one indeed.. I certainly can’t..

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Mogwai
Mogwai
1 year ago

We were lied to about the efficacy and safety of the jabs just like we were lied to about the severity of the pretend ”pandemic”. The maniacal obsession with getting everybody jabbed, using whatever means necessary ( not just the PsyOp, remember the crazy examples of bribery from all around the world? Remember when they did that for previous years’ flu vaccines? Nope, me neither! ) looks even more sinister now doesn’t it? That’s why I’ve personally done a 180 and now think no world leaders and no people with real influence took the damn things at all. They’d have just had placebos, I’m convinced of it. Because they *knew* the whole thing was a hoax and the death jabs were both unnecessary and highly risky, in a dangerously ‘mass global human experiment using novel technology’ kind of way.

”Drug regulators and public health agencies have saturated the airways with claims that serious harms following COVID-19 vaccination are “rare.”
But there has been very little scrutiny of that claim by the media, and I couldn’t find an instance where international agencies actually quantified what they meant by the term “rare” or provided a scientific source.
The best evidence so far has been a study published in one of vaccinology’s most prestigious journals, where independent researchers reanalyzed the original trial data for the mRNA vaccines.
The authors, Joseph Fraiman et al., found that serious adverse events (SAE)—i.e., adverse events that require hospitalization—were elevated in the vaccine arm by an alarming rate—1 additional SAE for every 556 people vaccinated with Pfizer’s mRNA vaccine.
According to a scale used by drug regulators, SAEs occurring at a rate of 1 in 556 are categorized as “uncommon” but are far more common than what the public has been told.

In response to the criticism, Fraiman, an emergency doctor and lead author on the reanalysis said, “To be honest, I’m not that surprised that agencies have not determined the rate of SAEs. Once these agencies approve a drug, there’s no incentive for them to monitor harms.”
He said it’s hypocritical for health agencies to tell people that serious harms of the COVID-19 vaccines are rare when they haven’t even determined the SAE rate themselves.
“It’s very dangerous not to be honest with the public,” said Fraiman, who recently called for the mRNA vaccines to be suspended.
“These noble lies may get people vaccinated in the short term, but you’re creating decades or generations of distrust when it’s revealed that they have been misleading the public.”

https://www.theepochtimes.com/sorry-but-serious-harms-from-the-vaccine-are-not-rare_5373840.html

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crisisgarden
crisisgarden
1 year ago
Reply to  Mogwai

We still have the core question: why? To me the elephant in the room is that only the (gullible) people of the collective west were given deadly mRNA, while China’s sphere of influence were given what I assume were basically placebos. This seems incredibly significant to me. If the shots are a bioweapon, which I think they are, and the mRNA tech is owned by China, which Naomi Wolf and others have shown, what does that suggest? To me it suggests that world war 3 is a biological war…

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Mogwai
Mogwai
1 year ago

Anyone else having probs with the site being slow or not loading tonight? I posted something over an hour ago and it’s disappeared into the ether. Oh well…just some friendly neighbourhood gremlins perhaps…

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Mogwai
Mogwai
1 year ago

From Peter McCullough’s Telegram;

”After high volumes of downloads overnight @TheLancet censored our paper. They don’t want the truth to get out on autopsies in C19 deaths. Why not let people read it and make their own conclusions?”

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Mogwai
Mogwai
1 year ago
Reply to  Mogwai

No wonder the shady buggers censored it. Look at the authors and you’ll see at least six names of doctors/experts who have been outspoken and opposing the narrative from the start. You can still access it here;

https://www.zenodo.org/record/8120771

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AllMouthAndTrousers
AllMouthAndTrousers
1 year ago

All a pantomime for those that believe any of this stuff still matters.

The fact is that during the “deadliest virus the world has ever seen” members of the govt, opposition, civil service and expert class were swanning around drinking and screwing while they told the rest of us it was too dangerous to sit in a cold church 20 feet from someone else. If you can’t work out what that means then you need to listen to a little more “London Calling”.

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Will L
Will L
1 year ago
Reply to  AllMouthAndTrousers

Described brilliantly AMAT..

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DevonBlueBoy
DevonBlueBoy
1 year ago

Never mind, the waste of yet more taxpayers’ money is par for the course of all governments.

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TheGreenAcres
TheGreenAcres
1 year ago

Nothing like this happens by accident. I suspect they want to paint the picture of the chaotic response to Covid by our elected government so that they can push the line that we need to hand over our sovereignty to unelected technocrats at the WHO.

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