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The Latest Breaking News from Covid-19

Government seeks judicial review of Covid inquiry’s demand for Johnson documents

The Cabinet Office said it was taking the step ‘with regret’.

The Independent UK

Government seeks judicial review against Covid Inquiry demands for unredacted WhatsApps from pandemic

Meanwhile Boris Johnson says he is ‘more than happy’ to hand over his messages and notebooks directly

Evening Standard

Government triggers court battle against Covid inquiry after Boris Johnson WhatsApp row

The Cabinet Office was given until 4pm today to hand over a trove of Boris Johnson's WhatsApp messages and notepads to the Covid-19 public inquiry after days of wrangling

Daily Mirror

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Government to take legal action against Covid inquiry over Johnson WhatsApps

Cabinet Office serves notice on inquiry chair at 4pm, the deadline she had set for it to hand over files

The Guardian - UK

Boris Johnson’s messages are just the start of it: the government is run on WhatsApp

If off-the-record messaging is a worrying trend, the real problem is that Westminster is one big gentlemen’s club, says French journalist Marie Le Conte

The Guardian - UK

Sunak government takes Covid inquiry to court to protect Boris’s WhatsApps

PM refuses to back down in extraordinary row, as Cabinet Office announces judicial review

The Independent UK

Digested week: imagining what comes next for Succession’s dislikable characters

A note-perfect finale, Boris Johnson’s WhatsApp messages and my role in an England cricketing hero’s downfall

The Guardian - UK

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On Covid, the past is being erased and the present ignored

Letters: ‘Don’t mention the virus’ has become a mantra, says Joan Twelves, while Joe Sim and Steve Tombs say the government is silencing discussion about the disease. Plus one reader describes how her husband’s death was not recorded as caused by Covid

The Guardian - UK

Making sure our public inquiries get results

Letters: We need a more rigorous system of accountability, says Michael Bichard, while Graham Murphy says we can’t rush the Covid inquiry

The Guardian - UK

Deadline passes for Government to hand over Johnson papers to Covid inquiry

With just minutes to go before the deadline, Rishi Sunak said the Government was still considering its next steps.

The Independent UK

George Osborne destroyed Britain’s safety net. The Covid inquiry should shame him into silence

His iniquitous austerity programme left the population sick, vulnerable, and unprepared for a pandemic, says the Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

The Guardian - UK

Sunak says Government ‘confident’ in position on Covid Inquiry demands

Rishi Sunak was speaking less than an hour before a deadline to hand over Boris Johnson’s papers and WhatsApp messages

Evening Standard

UK government refuses to hand over WhatsApp messages to COVID inquiry

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's government on Thursday said it would not hand over internal WhatsApp messages requested by a public inquiry into its handling of the COVID-19 pandemic and instead seek a legal challenge against the demand.

Reuters

West Lothian's Civic Centre café to start taking cash for first time since covid

Councillors agree that card only payment excludes many from using public facility in Civic Centre and drops pandemic ban on cash

Edinburgh Live

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Bike Perfect

Bespoken Word – the price of everything...

After the crazy cost increases of Covid, bike businesses are hacking prices everywhere trying not to be the ones that go bust after the boom. But Guy Kesteven reckons there’s more to whether something is really a bargain or not than the amount of money saved on the price tag

The Independent UK

Anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist guilty of plotting to destroy 5G masts

Christine Grayson, who believed the 5G masts were linked to the Covid-19 vaccine, has been convicted at Leeds Crown Court

Fortune

Star Flyer tests all-you-can-fly package as airline bets on remote workers

For just $286, those under the age of 26 can fly as much as they want between Tokyo and the southwestern city of Kitakyushu.

The Independent UK

Court rules Austria can't be held liable for early COVID infection at ski resort

An Austrian federal court says the state can’t be held liable for a COVID-19 infection from an outbreak at an Alpine ski resort as the coronavirus pandemic hit Europe The Supreme Court of Justice on Thursday announced its verdict in a long-running legal battle involving a German resident who traveled…

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Reuters

Spain expects more summer tourists than before pandemic

Spain expects to receive more tourists in the summer of 2023 than before the COVID-19 pandemic, after international tourist arrivals for April were 1.2% higher than in the same month in 2019, the tourism minister said on Thursday.

Daily Mirror

Boris Johnson 'ranted f*** this s*** in foul-mouthed tirade over Rishi Sunak'

Guto Harri, Mr Johnson's former communications chief, said the former PM burst out 'f*** this s***' in a foul-mouthed rant about the Treasury as relations with Rishi Sunak deteriorated

Evening Standard

Covid inquiry ‘may be flawed if it doesn’t get all documents it needs’

Lord Saville backed Baroness Hallett’s demand that the inquiry team should decide what material is relevant or not

Daily Mirror

Black people were THREE times more likely to receive Covid fines in England and Wales

Black people were about three times more likely to be hit with a fine for breaking coronavirus lockdown rules across England and Wales, new research has revealed

Chicago Sun-Times

Former Mayor Lori Lightfoot to teach at Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Lori Lightfoot heads to Harvard for a fellowship at the public health school; her course will be, in part, a study of how she steered Chicago through the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Guardian - UK

Rishi Sunak ‘confident’ on Covid inquiry position as deadline to hand over Boris Johnson documents passes – as it happened

If Cabinet Office has failed to comply with inquiry’s order to disclose the documents it could face legal battle

The Week

Is Boris Johnson tearing the Conservative Party apart?

It is almost a year since many Tories decided that Boris Johnson would have to go, “yet a whole two prime ministers later, it’s almost as if he never left”, said Gaby Hinsliff in The Guardian.

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