Covid inquiry and missing Johnson messages: “Dog ate my homework excuses don’t stand up to scrutiny”

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Responding to the Covid inquiry extending its deadline until Thursday after the Cabinet Office claimed it doesn’t have copies of Boris Johnson’s WhatsApp messages, Liberal Democrat Deputy Leader Daisy Cooper said:

“This dog ate my homework type excuse from the government simply doesn’t stand up to scrutiny.

“For the Cabinet Office to simultaneously refuse to disclose Boris Johnson’s messages because they were irrelevant to the inquiry whilst claiming not to even have them, will raise suspicions of another Conservative cover up.

"Whilst Rishi Sunak is too weak to stand up to Johnson and make him hand over this evidence, bereaved families will be left aghast. 

“The public has waited long enough already to get the truth. The inquiry’s work mustn’t be delayed any longer because of endless chaos in the Conservative Party.”

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