he said the affair only began years after meeting the young man who was 15 at the time. he said he regrets the relationship and lying about it when itv tried to investigate. he has been talking to the bbc. phillip, come on in. good to see you. thank you. phillip schofield granted this interview because he wanted to say sorry, he wanted to show contrition and he wanted to correct some of what he sees as the false narratives in the public domain over the past week. are you feeling 0k to do this? are you feeling strong enough to do this interview? yeah, i have to. schofield described the enormous toll recent days have taken on him. it is relentless. it is day after day after day after day. if you do that. if you don t think that is going to have the most catastrophic effect on someone s mind. do you want me to die? because that s where i am. i have lost everything. schofield says he is extremely concerned for the welfare of the young man with whom he had an extramarital affair.
the tewkesbury borough safety group says, emergency services will no longer staff the event, until organisers come up with a safety plan. you re live with bbc news. now to the latest development here in the uk regarding material demanded by an inquiry into the government s handling of covid 19. former prime minister borisjohnson has said he is giving unredacted whatsapp messages dating back to may 2021 directly to the covid inquiry, bypassing the government which has refused to hand them over. yesterday, the cabinet office said it was seeking a judicial review of the demand for messages from the former pm and other officials to be handed over to the inquiry chair. thank you for being here on the programme. the story has become much more complicated in the last 24 hours. ~ , , , , hours. absolutely, there is this bi . ? hours. absolutely, there is this big? about hours. absolutely, there is this big? about what hours. absolutely, there is this big? about what the
you are handing it over to a judge, not making it public. thejudge herself can look at the messages and decide what needs to be redacted and what is in the public interest for us to know. i m sure we can trust a very experienced seniorjudge to make those decisions. the fact of the matter is, if it is whatsapp communications on government phones, it is government business and i think this is where ministers are running into trouble. i think there s a tendency, these days, for politicians to use whatsapp quite casually. whereas, if you are using whatsapp on government phones, it is. 0r whatsapp on government phones, it is. or even personal phones to conduct government business, there is a public interest in seeing that material. , :, :, :, material. i m sorry we have to leave it there. thanks material. i m sorry we have to leave it there. thanks for material. i m sorry we have to leave it there. thanks forjoining - material. i m sorry we have to leave it there. thanks forjoining us
hours. absolutely, there is this i big? about what the government hours. absolutely, there is this - big? about what the government is going to hand over to the inquiry and what it isn t. 0n the one hand, we have the cabinet office saying it is going to launch a judicial review of the inquiry. its own inquiry, it is resisting the call to share unredacted material, including whatsapp messages. 0n the other hand, you have borisjohnson who is no longer in government, saying he is perfectly happy to share his whatsapp messages with the inquiry. he s already shared them with the cabinet office, he says. but also, we know these are only whatsapp messages pertaining to may 2021 because of a security issue with his phone before that point. and of course, it s the period before may 2021, is when the three knockdowns happened, which the inquiry will be so interested in. that happened, which the inquiry will be so interested in. so interested in. that is the period ofthe so interested in. that i