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This is a global player original podcast. When we last met on Thursday, the weird battle between

the COVID inquiry, Rishi Sunak and Boris Johnson was, little did we know it, only just warming up.

The chatter then was that the COVID inquiry would be taking the government to court

in order to get the documents they wanted. Instead, it turns out it's the other way around.

In an unprecedented move, the government will litigate against one of its own public inquiries, perhaps the most

important public inquiry to ever take place. So today's question is very simple. What the

hell is going on? It's Lewis here. Welcome to the newsagents.

The newsagents.

Right, that is one big question we're going to be delving into on the show today,

but we're also going to be chewing over another big, meaty question on this weekend newsagents.

Never let it be said, we go easy on you.

That is, are we all sleepwalking into a mighty house price crash? That's coming up later. But first, like the proverbial flies, we are drawn back to Boris Johnson. Two major

updates. Last night, there was this. Now, fortunately, I was doing the LBC Drive show so I could break

it myself. Extraordinary breaking news in the last, what, sort of 15 minutes or so, where

the Cabinet office confirming that they will take the COVID-19 inquiry to court over WhatsApp

messages that the inquiry is saying that the government must disclose. So as I say, when John and I spoke about this on Thursday,

we thought it might be that Lady Hallett, the chair of the inquiry,

the person the government chose to oversee this inquiry,

would be the one taking ministers to court,

demanding that they hand over all of Boris Johnson's unredacted communications and those of

one of his then number 10 aides, Henry Cook. Instead, we now know that it will be ministers,

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