The high court will decide “very soon” whether ministers should be forced to hand over all unredacted files demanded by the Covid inquiry, MPs have been told.
In an attempt to allay concerns of a cover-up, the Cabinet Office minister Jeremy Quin faced down fractious MPs on Monday and denied there was any political involvement in the scrutiny of such material.
Legal action launched by the government last week had been expedited, he said, with the first hearing to go ahead “on or shortly after 30 June”. He claimed the government’s motive for the unprecedented move to try to limit the Covid inquiry’s powers had been “misinterpreted”.
