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Boris Johnson's old phone containing Covid lockdown WhatsApps still not handed to inquiry

  • WhatsApp messages on Boris Johnson's old phone have not been given to the Covid inquiry.
  • The Cabinet Office has provided the inquiry with Johnson's notebooks, messages and diaries, but not his old phone.
  • The phone likely contains important messages about the government's pandemic response and lockdown orders in 2020.
  • Johnson has forgotten the passcode to unlock the phone, so officials are helping retrieve messages securely.
  • The rest of Johnson's Downing Street correspondence has been handed over after a legal battle.
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