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[โ€“] autotldr@lemmings.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This is the best summary I could come up with:


The leader of the House of Commons said that two years of WhatsApp chats with Boris Johnson had disappeared.

His spokesperson told the BBC that he has "sent all relevant messages in his possession to the inquiry and has complied exactly with their requests".

She asked 14 times for a meeting with Boris Johnson's chief of staff regarding the missing messages, "but had no response from his team".

Later on, she was told that she would have to pay tens of thousands of pounds in order to have her phone forensically examined, because the device belonged to her and not the government.

She added that she had since discovered that a similar problem has occurred with WhatsApp messages exchanged with Michael Gove, who was chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster at the time.

Again - whether he started a new WhatsApp account or transferred his old one to the new number, this would not affect the data stored on Ms Mordaunt's phone.


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[โ€“] FatLegTed 1 points 11 months ago

It wouldn't cost 10's of thousands FFS. GCHQ could do it as one of their daily tasks.