Johnson’s successor, Rishi Sunak, following the short-lived premiership of Liz Truss, is also implicated in COVID crimes, which accounts for the extraordinary refusal of the Cabinet Office to cooperate with its own inquiry. This was at the time when Downing Street were working out scenarios that up to 800,000 people could die if such a policy was enacted.
The inquiry requested that Johnson hand over unredacted WhatsApp messages sent and received by Johnson from January 1, 2020, to Februunredacted diaries copies of 24 unredacted notebooks and unredacted WhatsApp messages sent and received by Johnson’s adviser Henry Cook.Īll Johnson initially provided to the Cabinet Office was WhatsApp messages from May 2021, the month he announced the COVID Inquiry and a period well over a year after his initial response to the pandemic during which he advocated the mass infection of the population with COVID through a murderous “herd immunity” policy. The inquiry is chaired by former High Court judge, Baroness Heather Hallett, who in 2009 acted as coroner in the inquest of the 52 people killed in London’s 7/7 terrorist bombings.īut before oral sessions are even underway, Hallett’s inquiry was plunged into crisis by the refusal of Johnson, and then the Cabinet Office, to hand over diaries, notebooks and WhatsApp messages from his period in office. The oral hearings are expected to last at least three years, until the summer of 2026. The first oral hearings of Module 2, dealing with the main decision-making and political governance around the pandemic, are scheduled to start in the weeks to come. The first inquiry hearings, examining the UK's resilience and preparedness (Module 1), is set to take place June 13. Prime Minister Boris Johnson holds a COVID-19 Press Conference with Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak, Octo
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