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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Ben Glaze & Lizzy Buchan

Boris Johnson fails to hand 16 months of WhatsApps to Covid inquiry from old phone

Boris Johnson has not handed over his WhatsApp messages covering the first 16 months of the pandemic as he switched phone.

The shamed former Prime Minister claimed he had given “all material” demanded by the Covid-19 inquiry to the Cabinet Office - and urged the Government to pass it on to inquiry chair Baroness Heather Hallett.

But the Cabinet Office said it had only received messages from a phone Mr Johnson used from May 2021 onwards.

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