hello, i m matthew amroliwala welcome to verified live three hours of breaking stories, and checking out the truth behind them. let s start with two big political stories on the move today in the uk, the first regarding the current home secretary, the second concerning borisjohnson. the british prime minister rishi sunak says he believes suella braverman did not breach the ministerial code. the home secretary, one of mr sunak s senior ministers, was accused of asking civil servants to help her avoid taking part in a group speed awareness course after she was caught speeding. mr sunak says he has consulted with the independent adviser on ministerial interests and was advised that on this occasion, further investigation is not necessary. as for borisjohnson, he s ditched government appointed lawyers for his submission to the covid inquiry. it follows the news yesterday that the former prime minister faces a new police probe for potential breaches over covid lockdown restric
information borisjohnson and others should be giving to this official inquiry, a public inquiry as to how the uk handled covid and essentially there we seem to have reached to a point where the inquiry are saying, look, mrjohnson, handover, we have a ruling on this. he is not happy about it but they seem to be very insistent. mrjohnson is very unhappy about that. the second story is one in which borisjohnson finds himself at odds with the government, although they are in agreement about what information needs to be handed to the inquiry. he seems to be sort of suggesting that this information that was given to the police about his ministerial diary, which perhaps might suggest that there were further covid, breaking of covid regulations, something sinister about that, that there is people that don t like him. presumably in the new regime led by rishi sunak thatis the new regime led by rishi sunak that is behind it. those are the two stories and both somewhat unresolved it looks as thou
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