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live now to westminister and our political correpondent ione wells. a different response from boris johnson to the government in terms of the demands of the inquiry. that s right, and they have had different responses over the last week or so on this issue. the cabinet officejust week or so on this issue. the cabinet office just yesterday launched a judicial review, essentially a legal challenge, to the covid inquiry saying they don t feel it is right for them to hand over what they have described as unambiguously irrelevant material, for example, those containing conversations about personal or private matters of ministers or advisers or officials, so they have sought legal action against the covid inquiry. the covid inquiry has repeatedly said they think it is up to them to decide what materials relevant as part of their inquiry. the intervention by borisjohnson todayis the intervention by borisjohnson today is effectively him saying that he is willing to hand over th ....
That s not typical. it could happen here, but they may get some clues as to what they re focusing on by how they grant in this case. ian, talk about donald trump and his team. we often talk about the ways in which he operates, like a mob boss, the way he sends messages, perhaps not directly but through surrogates. the fact that you have alina hava showing up on fox one day saying he s worried the court won t rule in his favor and then another day saying they expect justices like justice kavanagh to, quote, step up. i mean, the subtext seems pretty clear. well, it s remarkably poor strategy. they re used to bullying elected officials who need to run for office in republican primaries who depend on trump s blessing. but of course the justices of the supreme court have life tenure, and they want to establish they re independent. i think that strategy of trying to pressure, bully, or intimidate justice kavanagh is ....
They would be able to also access some of those messages. this is all very tricky for the government, just the day after they launched this judicial review, there also hasn t been a huge amount of optimism about the government winning this legal challenge, only yesterday evening the science minister george freeman told the bbc s question time he thought courts would rule in the inquiry s favour. i think it ll clear up give people confidence, even if all this achieves is to make very clear that the inquiry will treat with absolute confidentiality anything private and we can get on with it but i think it s really important that the rules of this are made clear. george freeman also said it was actually worth testing if officials had a right to privacy because that s at the heart of it, isn t it? that s right, he feels that even though it s likely that courts won t rule in the government s favour, ....