Boris Johnson’s former principal private secretary Martin Reynolds was asked why, in April 2021, shortly before the PM announced a public inquiry, he turned on the disappearing messages function on a WhatsApp group for messages to No 10.
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Reynolds said he could not remember and could only speculate before arguing that he kept all his relevant WhatsApp messages.
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