Covid inquiry: Johnson WhatsApp messages still missing due to ‘technical issue’

Covid inquiry: Johnson WhatsApp messages still missing due to ‘technical issue’

Former British prime minister Boris Johnson will start giving his evidence to the covid-19 inquiry on Wednesday (Tolga Akmen/PA)

Boris Johnson has denied deleting WhatsApp messages after it emerged that the former British prime minister has not been able to provide the covid-19 inquiry with any communications from February to June 2020.

It comes after the Times newspaper reported that Mr Johnson, who will begin two days of questioning at the inquiry on Wednesday, has told Heather Hallet’s probe that technical experts have not been able to retrieve WhatsApp messages between January 31 and June 7 – a time period spanning the early days of the pandemic and most of the first lockdown.

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