To court to prevent ministers being forced to hand over their messages. the government defied the covid inquiry s 4 o clock deadline to hand over material from borisjohnson related to the pandemic, and countered. with the public inquiry due to start in a fortnight, we ll be asking exactly how this is in the public interest. we ll be speaking to a kc who s a veteran of public inquiries past, a conservative party watcher and a leading lawyer. also tonight: the bbc interviews the poster boy for internet misogyny andrew tate, at present under house arrest in romania under suspicion of human trafficking and organised crime.
I preach hard work, discipline. i m an athlete. i preach anti drug, i preach religion, i preach no alcohol. i preach. no knife crime. every single problem in modern society, i m against. we ll bejoined by a prankster who ended up with a criminal record who says andrew tate is helping him mend his ways, and laura bates, the writer and founder of the everyday sexism project. and ahead of the government s expected apology and compensation for the treatment of lgbt+ members of the military when homosexuality was banned until 2000, we speak we speak to two former servicemen about their treatment and the impact on their lives. good evening. to some it might feel a bit like a looking glass world, when the former prime minister is now happy for his whatsapp messages and documents to be handed to the covid inquiry, but the current prime minister and his government are doing their utmost to stop that happening. rishi sunak s government has this afternoon called instead for a judical review.