Boris Johnson fails to hand over mobile containing Covid WhatsApp messages as inquiry's deadline passes

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Boris Johnson has failed to hand over his old mobile phone containing crucial WhatsApp messages at the centre of the ongoing Covid inquiry.

Despite the strict deadline for the submission of relevant evidence being set by the Covid inquiry, the former PM failed to hand over the handset in time.

Baroness Hallett, the chair of the Covid inquiry, had issued the Cabinet Office a 4pm deadline on Monday, July 10, by which to hand over all of Johnson’s WhatsApp messages and diaries.However, it's emerged the messages remain stored on Johnson’s old device, which he was forced to switch off in May 2021 following a major security breach.

The government had previously attempted to block the release of such messages, labelling them “unambiguously irrelevant material”, eventually losing their legal battle.

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