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UK government cites rights convention in legal battle with Covid inquiry

Lawyers argue request for unredacted WhatsApps breaches article 8 of European convention often maligned by Tories

Government lawyers have sought to rely on the European convention on human rights – maligned by many Conservatives – to avoid having to hand over unredacted files to the Covid inquiry.

At an unprecedented high court challenge to the demand by the inquiry chair, Lady Heather Hallett, for documents that include the entire WhatsApp history of Boris Johnson and a former No 10 aide, Henry Cook, James Eadie KC argued it would “breach article 8 rights”.

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