Will the private government messages MPs demanded on why Boris Johnson suspended parliament ever be revealed?

The government is adamant it will continue to ignore a demand it dismissed as ‘unprecedented, inappropriate, and disproportionate’

On Monday, the House of Commons passed a binding resolution ordering the government to release a tranche of internal messages relating to Boris Johnson’s decision to suspend parliament. On Wednesday, the government refused.

MPs had demanded emails and messages between nine government advisers, among them Dominic Cummings, Boris Johnson’s top aide, and Nikki da Costa, the prime minister’s head of legislative affairs.

They were trying to prove that Boris Johnson’s reason for suspending parliament was to stop MPs debating Brexit – and was not, as ministers say, simply a routine move ahead of a Queen’s Speech next month.