Boris Johnson grilled over thousands of missing WhatsApps at Covid Inquiry

[@mark-wu7sy]

The fact this person could become PM is a stain on this country that will never be removed

[@alasdaircook5673]

And a man who had been sacked from previous jobs for lying. Any one else applying for a job when you had been sacked for lying would be unemployable.

[@AM_o2000]

A stain on the electorate too. They put him in office.

[@Scarz3ny]

Yeah thank god we have unelected Rishi Sunak now and a mainstream media as our overlords who decide how we should feel about everything

[@bobinjc]

Incompetence in the political sphere is a global issue that we are all paying for.

[@dale-qz9dg]

It was him or Jeremy Corbyn, what kind of choice is that, frying pan or fire?

[@chrischarlescook]

A serial adulterer with an unknown amount of illegitimate children definitely knows what a factory reset is

[@edwardalexander9486]

Ha ha! Now - imagine that sentence said by the man himself to his coterie of weird people like Rees-Moggy. Good joke! More Whisky!

[@djabbt4171]

I would imagine he done more factory resets than he's got children, known or otherwise

[@j377yb33n]

@@djabbt4171 more factory resets than London bridges in his name too

[@BobGolob]

😂😂😂😂

[@PanglossDr]

Possibly not, He would probably just get a new phone.

[@Brokenribs18]

Oh wow it's almost like he was not only terrible at his job, but also deviously criminal in his conduct. Absolute shocker.

[@factstrumpprejudice6740]

Oh dear, Johnson is deviously criminal, who'd have thought?

[@BloobleBonker]

It is excruciatingly painful to hear this man's attempts to blather his way out of all accountability.

[@jenko2611]

Tell me about it he knows exactly what a factory reset is he has many people to inform him about tech at his reach

[@wattbenj]

We literally had the worst possible citizen as our worst Prime Minister, leading our worst ever government, at the worst possible time.

[@PollyFoxParanormal]

So the police can retrieve messages and other items that were wiped from phones, tablets, computers etc, but the covid enquiry can't find any tech wizards to retrieve Bojo's whatsapp messages? Got it.

[@harlequinems]

Same as every other time someone over a certain financial situation is in trouble, all of a sudden the police forget how to investigate anything. You would have more chance of sitting down for a conversation with Queen Victoria than getting a politician to face punishment (going by your username 😜)

[@williamdoyle1108]

Are there actually special programmes/equipment that can bring things back or Is it just scare tactics?

[@Umbrey_Dunctum]

​@@williamdoyle1108I'm not sure but I think when you use WhatsApp you connect to WhatsApp servers, much like when you use Google you connect to Google servers. I think, therefore, Boris's messages are still on a WhatsApp server.

[@bearwynn]

​@@williamdoyle1108 they exist, and they do work to an extent. When you delete something it doesn't really get rid of it, just marks the address in memory write-able by other operations. So when you wipe it the data still exists until something writes over it. There are wipe options that "zero" a device, where after wiping it it writes a zero over everything. Even these are recoverable sometimes, it just depends how many writes have taken place as there are still traces. Remember, digital storage is still on physical media somewhere. It doesn't just exist in a void.

[@guruware8612]

@@williamdoyle1108 nothing ever gets deleted, or do you still trust a button on your mobile to do what is written on it ? like a "don't collect personal data"-checkbox :) the only way to delete digital data is to shredder the hardware - twice, but backups are stored on every server a message passes, and people like to store everything in the cloud (which is just a simple server somewhere), and this servers do daily backups, which you can restore anytime. even printers store the data you print, or what is harddrive in a printer for? you might think of encryption, forget about it. having secrets? keep them in your head. note: that is not a conspiracy theory, its simple technical fact - me working in this sector.

[@rjScubaSki]

Should be criminal charges for perverting the course of justice, evidence tampering, and fraud.

[@scottishrob7119]

Should be criminal charges for the people who voted for him back in 2019. What a shame that Scotland has to share this island with you.

[@thejonno2709]

Because the SNP is doing so much better with scandals lately... 😂 Remind me where are Salmond and Sturgeon at the moment?

[@system1912]

​@@thejonno2709completely agree under the SNP you can be arrested for something you said at the dinner table corrupt authoritarian b@st@rds.

[@T.E.S.S.]

you forgot the negligent manslaughter

[@petemills5704]

@@scottishrob7119 haven’t you all gone off in camper cans?

[@annastracke8585]

He is insulting all of us !

[@popgoesaweasle920]

He's done that from the first day he was voted in by the morons that reside I'm this country.

[@edmundblackaddercoc8522]

They all are

[@Lordknowswhere]

That's exactly what I feel.

[@jamesstokes1579]

Only care for his own pocket and ego

[@embalmertrick1420]

An enquiry is just a circus until we see people actually going to jail. What these politicians did deserves worse. 😡🤯

[@bobdigi500]

The term professional liar is a common insult used for politicians. But its literally true for this man.

[@adrianmacgrath5814]

How can this guy be allowed to lie under oath

[@paulqueenan178]

Because he has immune from prosecution, that's why , this is a total whitewash, it always was going to be

[@PollyFoxParanormal]

People do it all the time. Especially Tory MPs.

[@stevenbreach2561]

Does it for a living

[@royhills]

Because he has been careful to ensure that it can't be proved I suspect.

[@oystercatcher943]

We should push for perjury charges. Needs something clear and solid though. Might be something regarding the phone can be proven . Ie place/time reset? Possibly

[@johnhooton8299]

For a man who at the time ran the country and could send us to war, looked so shocked to find out you could factory reset a phone?

[@geordievillan]

He is a master manipulator. There is zero chance that he would be unaware of how to hide his messaging. IT's the sort of thing people like him will learn first about any technology.@@Tom-d7e7m

[@annphillips1086]

And who absolutely definitely didn't try to do it to his phone. No sir. Tampered with, you say? It's a mystery.

[@johnhooton8299]

@@Lummy62 I don't own a mobile phone, but I assume the data/messages like my emails are held externally from my device and only my contacts are held locally, as the number of messages that have gone missing is in the thousands

[@annphillips1086]

@@Lummy62 Who does?

[@scoonboon]

We all know why those “WhatsApp’s” disappeared. We all know. He was openly texting people about how he doesn’t care for human life, saying rotten things about the public and colleagues, and probably some sort of corruption too. It’s a disgrace this man was PM. Shame on anyone that voted for him.

[@jameshansing5396]

I’d suggest it was more about how they could make ££££ out of it ….

[@MsCheesemonster13]

@@jameshansing5396 Almost certainly both, I’m afraid. Johnson is an absolute horror.

[@christinegivens9048]

@@jameshansing5396yep.

[@michealcurrie8272]

Stupidity has no shame

[@Willywin]

Shame on those that didnt, the death count would have been far higher had vaccines been gifted to the EU at the expese of British lives as the left and EUrophiles wanted.

[@flaviaescobar3007]

I can’t believe he still keeps such a cheeky smile while he was responsible for the loss of so many lives and the trauma that the ones who had been there, had to get through

[@ruthbrodie6313]

It's incredibly difficult to watch him. The smirk is horrendous.

[@simonheathcote4173]

Duper's delight - hallmark of the psycho.

[@richmcnab8925]

“Factory reset?” He can’t claim to be that stupid after convincing everyone he had enough intelligence to lead the country. He keeps messing his hair up to make himself look like a harmless idiot too. He knows exactly what he’s doing.

[@fritzhenning1]

Stan Laurel had that (hair messing) off to a fine art.....and he always got laughs.

[@WeRemainFaceless]

So, if Boris is to believed, he doesn't know or understand what a 'factory reset' is on a mobile phone. Even my grandmother managed to Factory reset her phone without guidance. ... he's either lying, or he's dangerously incompetent. Considering he was Prime Minister of the UK for several years... I'm not sure which is worse.

[@nobbycheeseman2915]

The man thinks he can use his HIGNFY buffoonery to fool the Inquiry. And he will probably do it.

[@danielcraig4974]

He's lying obviously. Wake up

[@PollyFoxParanormal]

Right?!!! So a man who once "ran the country" doesn't know what a factory reset is or how to do it. OK Boris. Of course we believe you.

[@janchapman3445]

It's Boris, he's both

[@jackryan3487]

he's human wouldn't you do the same are you special ?

[@bearsbreeches]

I still can't understand why government business was allowed to be carried out on WhatsApp, knowing that all contacts should be recorded daily, how can they just 'lose' messages.

[@SlinkShady]

it's called corruption and criminality.

[@parametr]

Using WhatsApp for government business is palpably ilegal in a few European countries. Because those messages can be deleted, and because WhatsApp is owned by an American company. I know because I have created equivalents that a couple governments use (and own) instead of WhatsApp. No reason for UK to use WhatsApp, unless they explicitly want to delete messages and have unsupervised conversation with non-government people (donors?). And of course, don't care about USA knowing everything you write.

[@bearsbreeches]

Seems the bar is very low for people to be accused of corruption let alone be charged with anything. They just jump over it.

[@alasdaircook5673]

Surely it is against the official secrets act

[@danielwoods3563]

Johnson trying to misdirect and spin disclosure of the WhatsApp’s as some sort of voluntary transparency, when in fact the only reason they were needed is because this government was conducting business through opaque channels. Nothing to do with the “texture” of the personalities. We all know why they were using WhatsApp - to try and avoid public record.

[@TonyToning-ne7uq]

GUILTY!! should be the 1st to go to jail for manslaughter..

[@FreeSpiritBudgieLady]

What a bloody liar !…… and isn’t it strange that Sunak also “lost” his WhatsApp messages……….. damn them both !😤😠😡🤬

[@lesscotford1419]

All the way to Hades.

[@RogerBrown-ib8ww]

CANT LYE STRAIGHT IN BED

[@miniaturefun-guy]

“I’ve given you everything I think you need” I suspect he didn’t think he was required to hand over anything.

[@pault9744]

So Boris just gets away with deliberating misleading the enquiry......again

[@awtistiaeth4699]

yep!

[@FungeHucker]

INquiry ;)

[@awtistiaeth4699]

@@Lummy62 It is an inquiry into how the gov't dealt with Covid, so we're better prepared for the next pandemic, not an investigation into how it started.

[@grotzbully1340]

​@@Lummy62because the source of the virus is totally irrelevant to what the government did. It doesn't matter if its from China or from Norway. What matter and what the inquiry is about what the government did.

[@billpugh58]

It’s a Tory thing. Even their voters like being lied to.

[@TrueMarvellous1]

Political Manslauughter should be a crime and the lot of them should be charged.

[@diablothe2nd894]

You'd end up with every single MP in jail! But maybe that's a good thing 😂

[@hannah51238]

I think it is, isn't it? What's it called when businesses cause manslaughter......? You'd think it'd fall under the same category

[@5556665012008]

diseases aren't manslaughter, negligence maybe but you can't save everyone so any choice would kill someone

[@First_Principals]

Malfeasance in public office should receive a prison service.

[@paulkearnsmusic]

@@First_Principals Malfeasance in public office IS an offence - punishable by up to life imprisonment. In severity, it ranks alongside murder and treason

[@hummadruz]

One thing that stunned me about his appearance at the enquiry today is the simple fact that when he swore an oath to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth he didn't spontaneously combust!

[@djd8305]

💥

[@AlanKelso]

What thoroughly credible bloke. The honesty is just oozing out of his every pore. 😮‍💨

[@debmarch5432]

I will never forgive you for separating loved ones in care homes - the separation didn’t protect them - it killed them! They died of broken hearts!

[@mrrichardshort]

On the 'missing' messages. He states @5:12 ‘I've given you everything I THINK YOU NEED..’ So surely, he's not given everything we require...

[@tessaninetails8065]

Boris should really stop thinking, he's crap at it

[@track2now]

Almost forgotten how brazen and unashamed this liar was

[@SpartanMikey]

Which tells you everything about how the Tories have conducted themselves since.

[@peterwainwright5994]

"Factory Reset"...saying this as though he's not got a clue!...his phone magically deleted itself! probably with any damning evidence?...what a surprise! he's a complete lying disgrace!!

[@Red-px1fr]

@@SpartanMikey Yep. Johnson set the bar depth-plummetingly low and Truss and Sunak have gladly passed under it. I don't know which of them is worse.

[@TinaButcher-r6m]

Yet nothing will happen to him, he's walked away laughing at us

[@annepollock8306]

Never forget. Never forgive.

[@JonMow]

"the app goes down and it goes back up again...."good lord! this guy used to be the PM. and people defended him

[@joshclayg]

Like his and his cabinets portfolio values.

[@annphillips1086]

They think it's cute.

[@George-hs2zm]

And in the meantime it just happens to have conveniently deleted a few thousand very damaging WhatsApps.

[@Ah_Lee_Sun]

His excuse is BS!

[@ians6323]

Fans think he's a man of the people. He's really a man who looks down on the people.

[@VoiceInTheCyberness]

It's a miracle! The App got baptised and came up clean!

[@Heket]

So he doesn’t know what a factory reset is? Bull 💩. Why couldn’t they get those WhatsApp messages from the other recipients?

[@alfsmith4936]

They couldn't find the app everyone else uses to recover them.

[@isabellewhite3505]

At 07:29 Johnson was unaware of the toxic language used - as evidenced in the WhatsApp messages by the KC He lies continuously without any self-awareness or shame.

[@Heket]

BoJo couldn’t find his arse with both hands. The idiocy of CONservative voters is astounding and toxic.

[@MrRedterrier]

After teaching young adolescents for 40 years you get a real strong indication of when students deflect, cover up, lie by omission and just blatantly lie.... enough said!

[@stormbringerseven8288]

Spot on.

[@tonyb9735]

To be honest though, it's not very difficult.; Boris is a desperately poor liar, albeit a prolific one.

[@janetmalcolm6191]

He didn't come with a good report from Eton anyway. Boris only cares about Boris is what was said. So there you have it.

[@taniayager3361]

No apologies acceptable as it is an insult to all in this country who lost their loved ones! The people want to know when are criminal charges going to be implemented for these traitors?

[@TheLion-b3h]

The entire culture of Parliament Elitism needs to be scrutinised thoroughly when it produces “examples” like this, something is broken. The Chocolate factory is producing ssshhh….. then telling us it’s a Lion bar….!?!

[@Jack-lo1uc]

They wernt lost to Convid tho where they

[@davegeorge7997]

This is costing millions to get what we already know

[@SirJakeusMaximus]

It's deeply disturbing having insight to the sheer level of incompetence in our government. I can see this country collapsing if we don't get competent people in quick.

[@lizangelo3773]

I think it already happened.

[@lesscotford1419]

Too fuckin late.

[@noneofyourbizness]

corporations now have control over the western world's governments, the UK government is no exception.

[@Lee_303]

It's not just incompetence, they're evil on top. All by design & the so called leader of the opposition is one of them!!!

[@KS-wl6eu]

Sadly, there isn’t much incentive for competent and honest people to become politicians. The money ain’t great and social media makes your private life public. Which leaves the door open for sociopaths and incompetents and chancers.

[@Notalloldpeople]

Just lying. If he has lost messages how can he say that he has provided everything the enquiry needs?

[@SpartanMikey]

And that the exact period that would be relevant to the Covid Enquiry is somehow “lost” because WhatsApp was apparently down. Funny, because I have almost exclusively used WhatsApp to communicate with individuals and groups for the past 7 years or so and it hasn’t “gone down” once.

[@nalanageek]

Didn't he actually say "I have provided all the information I think the enquiry needs".

[@evelynsommerville]

he didn't lose messages he deleted them does this man think we are all stupid 😡

[@system1912]

He scrubbed the phone and handed it in, how are they allowed to do this!? The police should have taken it immediately.

[@josephnott2956]

These are the police that stood out side no 10 when all the party's was kicking off ohhh nothing to see here

[@rrbh]

You mean the Met? Seriously? They probably had the goon who stands outside number 10 pop inside and reset the phone while Johnson uttered " hurry up you pleb,"

[@Ian-mj4pt]

​@@rrbhtype of crap he would do. He's a horrible excuse for a human

[@annemoncrieff3875]

This lawyer must be shattered when he goes home at night. The mps just have to appear for a couple of days this poor man doing it every day. His brain must be frazzled, so much concentration. Well done to him.

[@speevers9484]

The disappearance of the WhatsApp data should be treated as contempt of Court,this would enable the Court to punish the defendant for withholding evidence ...

[@vitroz]

This man is #evil. Please send him to prison or capitol punishment. He deserves every ill.

[@neilbenison2512]

Unfit for Office, I would quite happily sacrifice some of my taxes to pay for people to follow these jokers and shout shame every time they step out in public.

[@AnnQlder]

I’ll gladly fund that from oz 😂

[@J-PoN]

100% I’ve said the same since partygate How these filthy scumbags show their faces in public is baffling

[@geordievillan]

I'd help fund that, except he truly wouldn't care.

[@First_Principals]

I'd pay for the rotten tomatoes.

[@iskrajackal9049]

They wouldn't get it and if it were explained they wouldn't care

[@AndyBanner]

These missing watsapp messages MUST exist in the archives of the people he was communicating with...... How could it be possible to have lost them all?

[@Phil-cj3ko]

Absolutely right! You can't whatsapp yourself, only other people. Those communications are somewhere.

[@whatsthatnow308]

​@@Lummy62I have whatsapp messages from 2020, this is the second time you've spewed this mince on this thread, I seriously suggest you go and find out how Whatsapp works.

[@danielwoods3563]

Even if someone wipes the contents of their whatsapp messages, the recipients will still have those messages sent to them stored on their phone. So unless all the parties involved wiped their phones, it should still be possible to recover Johnson’s messages from the recipients phones. And if they all wiped their phones at around the same time, that would in itself be extremely suspicious.

[@madontherun]

Very True

[@edwardalexander9486]

Exactly.

[@Barry-tl3ru]

Those WhatsApp messages are retrievable

[@PaulaXism]

@@Barry-tl3ru I 100% guarantee GCHQ have every single one of them.. same as they have 100% of all your communications..

[@iskrajackal9049]

Surely the content is all on the network servers?

[@iwantsomecookies08]

"i dont remember such a thing." that was a "yes" for anyone who is unfamiliar with either johnson or his liability to commit purgery at this moment.

[@jamham9359]

Most obvious liar EVER.

[@peterebel7899]

loved by the Brits.

[@annepollock8306]

Not this Brit.

[@satanssurfer5965]

Trouble is he believes his own lies.

[@peterebel7899]

@@satanssurfer5965 This is the basics of Brexit the Brits voted for.

[@track2now]

All of this is just like when he was PM: obfuscation and protracted discussions besides the main point because he’s a compulsive liar.

[@cechzc2e]

All we need to know is, when are criminal charges to be implemented. Anything else is an empty platitude.

[@shaun906]

how to cover their ass3s better next time!

[@frankkeachie]

Why do politicians always seem to start with to make things completely clear and then try everything they can to cover it all up

[@Foldy435]

I bet there are tech guys that work on WhatsApp watching this laughing their asses off.

[@harlequinems]

Yep. WhatsApp backs up daily so if ever you switch phones you still have everything you need... Funny how that is overlooked for this

[@redmed10]

Inquiry should call whatsapp tech support.

[@faithlesshound5621]

@@redmed10 WhatsApp is owned by FaceBook, which was fined 110 million Euros for lying to the EU that they were technically incapable of extracting user information, before going on to do just that to insert FB advertising. I wouldn't expect straight answers from Meta about their ability to retrieve No 10's texts.

[@PanglossDr]

Yes, as they scroll through the 'missing' messages.

[@kellz5135]

​@@harlequinemsonly if you tell it to back up msgs daily.

[@djabbt4171]

Hes given everything he thinks the enquiry needs, but seemingly not everything the enquiry demands. Was it just me, or did anyone else see him try hard to hold a smirk back when he was trying to deflect questions about wiping whatsapp messages

[@Sneezy563]

Yes I noticed him trying to 'stifle a smirk' over the messages - a well known Johnson trait.

[@carolnoble4615]

How did he know what is relevant? The only people who knuw what is relevant is the enquiry people themselves.

[@Rapid_GT]

This is the guy who told you to stay at home and obey lock down rules, stay away from loved ones and all the other BS and he just literally laughed in your face and now some BS about WhatsApp messaged being conveniently erased! I think we get the picture what sort of guy Boris is !

[@dafa8592]

Should all of them put in prison life time

[@diirestraits4881]

Now, if telling lies was a difficult job then Boris has just made it look so easy.

[@timbrown4576]

How fortuitous for Johnson that 5,000 Whatsapps 'disappeared'

[@robakajackflash]

For someone who is such an experienced liar this is some weak child like lying

[@Red-px1fr]

His lying has always been crap, it's just that his immense privilege has allowed him to get away with it.

[@jezedwards3858]

An oath to tell the truth means nothing to these guys. No matter how ridiculous, they lie with lie with ease and impunity.

[@alanfrost4661]

Destroying evidence is surely contempt and is punishable

[@andrewneil6027]

This enquiry is a disgrace to our legal system. He’s a terrorist

[@alangibb9785]

I believe this enquiry is just the sideshow after the Circus that in the past 3, almost 4 years we have witnessed. Most of the clowns have left & all that's gonna happen is, once they have all been questioned, they will just be told that they ain't getting their jobs back. End of. Nobody will get prosecuted. I so so want to be wrong. But the shenanigans over those past 3/4 years is testament that some people can actually get away with murder.

[@eckhenderson8036]

he should be jailed with the rest of the tory squad.

[@followthetrawler]

He is a liar, not a terrorist. And why is the inquiry a disgrace in your opinion?

[@crayontom9687]

@@followthetrawlerit’s an establishment stitch up to give the appearance of scrutiny. There’ll be a report and some media hand-wringing for a few days, that’s it. Nobody will be in jail or the stocks as a result of this, so nothing will change

[@MASO204]

They are just taking anything he says for gospel, they should have a WhatsApp professional there to prove his statements true or false@@followthetrawler

[@rymixxx]

Community note: for a man whose career and indeed entire life is based on lying, you'd rather expect he'd be better at it.

[@peterlpool1387]

“This place is insane. Zero discipline.” Boris Johnson’s Britain in a nutshell. Tories aren’t fit for purpose!

[@johnseabrook1703]

Parliament is unfit for business.

[@stormbringerseven8288]

Neither is commie labour.

[@michaelmulhall5007]

@@stormbringerseven8288Tell me what labour has got to do with Boris johnson been a absolute dummy that you couldn’t trust to pack a shelf in Tesco ?

[@malcolmmitchell6529]

None of them are. IGNORE THEIR " ELE CTION"

[@petershaw6727]

Surely the people he communicated with would still have those conversations...

[@notbloodylikely4817]

This is an insult to the families of the bereaved and the victims. I suspect this will get worse as the week goes on.

[@maf74]

Proof, if needed that Bojo has no shame.

[@adrianvassallo5630]

The thing about WhatsApp messages is you cannot loss them when switching mobile phones or if the phone crashes they are in i cloud so they can be found or retrieved not rocket science

[@powderandpaint14]

Exactly, it's an app. The messages are stored in the app, not in the phone.

[@mcc4k]

Who pays for all the staff in this enquiry and what is the point, damage done and all involved get no punishment?

[@MalachiHut]

If the former PM didn’t know what a ‘factory reset is’ …. How was he allowed to run the country! School Boy error!!

[@yogeorgia6316]

Sorry, a man who has had multiple affairs seriously expects anyone to believe that he *doesn't* know what a factory reset is?

[@joannelewis3390]

When the narcissist means to harm you. He will if he got the chance do it again An apology is meaningless

[@garyt123]

These people can remember perfectly to claim a £1.10 parking ticket (even though they are millionaires) but inexplicably they can't remember if they were angry about the possibility of their whatsapp messages (made from a phone WE the public OWN) becoming public. Also its inexplicable how many ministers have been "factory resetting" their public property.

[@paulwhittaker5195]

@garyt. Well said, yes they seem to have selective memory don't they. I just wish that the British public could get to confront these lying thieving charlatans face to face without their security.

[@heartssmiles9032]

As an expert in data engineering, it's impossible for WhatsApp messages to disappear. Impossible. As long as you have a WhatsApp account any message can be retrieved, even deleted ones.

[@bionic4368]

He's slowly realising that his bullshitting isn't going to rescue him. He now knows his reputation is in tatters, and the history books will not show him in good light.

[@yettoexist]

why would he start telling the truth now? i doubt he would

[@andrewrobinson2565]

He ALSO believes that he didn't lie to Parliament. He CONSTANTLY DIVERTS from the subject.

[@GWills-ys6rd]

ALL PRIVILEGES AND TITLES SHOULD BE REVOKED. SOME MAY CLAIM HE HAS NO PLACE AT THE CENOTAPH!

[@CameliaCraftsDesigns]

This government needs a factory reset.

[@bernarddobson9183]

Blojo is clearly incapable of doing a factory reset of his phone. So, shouldn't the enquiry be looking for the person who did it for him on his instructions?

[@arronstone177]

A technical malfunction stopped the messages from being accessed. How convenient.

[@alantheinquirer7658]

His lack of understanding a 'factory reset' is a lie. What he didn't understand that it wouldn't delete anything that would end up as evidence.

[@bingowings65]

I hope history records this man for the monster he is!

[@mcpoeman]

Police can retrieve deleted data, if they choose to do so....

[@terryansell6641]

What a very very poor lying Ex prime minister

[@tbutterworth1692]

Luckily, the missing Whatsapps from the period in question would definitely not have contained any trace of dodgy PPE or test & trace app contract distribution activity. Absolutely no way, probably.

[@chrismurphy6070]

Or any dodgy Russians

[@markdessie816]

Who would have thought that Boris is a compulsive liar bet not the people who voted for him.

[@stevenbreach2561]

I did!

[@dommccabe17]

The stupid morons all thought he would be their mate and go for a pint for them. In reality he despises them all and used them entirely for his own personal advancement.

[@annemoncrieff3875]

Au contraire there is one female hairdresser in Wales who voted for him cos he did lie and in her mind that made him like the 'common' pple. Her words 'one of us'. Oh dear!!

[@cwill2065]

it was a case of him being the best option.....cope

[@rollyunicorn]

Everyone knew, but what choice was there for the voters? A compulsive liar or a rabid Socialist/Communist? Considering that most Politicians are compulsive liars the compulsive liar seemed the lesser of two evils!

[@sugarfree1894]

He can't stop himself smiling - duper's delight.

[@hamsterminator]

What i find eye opening about this enquiry is the utter disdain everyone has for eachother. I knew i didn't trust half of these characters- i assumed they at least trusted eachother seeing as they were being placed onto roles by those same people. Watching this, you see that people get put into positions with no reasoning and are shortly after discovered to be utterly useless.

[@leeshepherd6512]

Needs to be put on trial in a real court and receive a lengthy jail sentence.

[@redmed10]

Its amazing how this one lawyer who seems to be asking all the questions is able to handle all the information that is involved in this inquiry.

[@carmellewis2466]

The questioner's called Hugo Keith KC. Look him up. He's very experien ced in managing high profile complex cases.

[@willtricks9432]

He has a lot of information and several targets to aim the questions at

[@gingerssmelllikecabbageand8708]

Mate the guy can pull your pants down and grease your arse with out knowing

[@runklestiltskin_2407]

The dog ate my homework

[@chrisashton9218]

I fed it to the dog

[@edwardalexander9486]

No? Not the answer? How about the phone went into space like elon musk's first electric space-pollution roadster. And then came back to earth - gosh, red-hot - and self-combusted in my back garden! Which was nice.

[@SpartanMikey]

It’s quite something when a former Prime Minister of the U.K. can make even Arnold Rimmer look competent.

[@colconn57]

I always thought there was a bit of Rimmer in him.

[@robpagett2709]

My favourite comment on here

[@STRING3R]

"If a job's worth doing, it's worth doing well. If it's not worth doing, give it to Boris"

[@gshockbabe6144]

He is definitely a smeghead.

[@ramonalavigne8953]

"Did you illegally accept donations to redecorate your residence?" "Yes, we were changing the colour from ocean grey to military grey"

[@Deathwish026]

criminals in parlimant getting away with shit. same story all the time. i await his book launch on it.

[@jumpa654]

Honestly, send him to jail! It's the least he deserves.

[@strikeforcealpha9343]

His answer for everything is going to be... I don't remember. And yet, you lot voted him in, well done guys.

[@patriciahiggins9188]

Dumb Britain

[@Sally237-s4w]

They don’t remember doing it lol.

[@robertshepherd-mo9vw]

I certainly didn't. Well, l don't recall.

[@carmellewis2466]

Nothing gets under the radar of this guy doing the questioning.

[@starmersbarber]

He's is a very competent person doing his job properly...in the world of politics, this must be a strange concept!

[@timsmith2279]

This guy should get hold of those phones 1. Now ask Boris to hand over his phone with WhatsApp missing messages 2. Should now ask all those who received these message from Boris to also hand over their phones. Boris has nothing to fear if he’s done nothing wrong.

[@jakehyams8659]

​@@timsmith2279mate, they did that. Boris forgot his password

[@Chancer02]

Which side is Boris on? Lee Mack's or David Mitchell's?

[@SashaGrace94]

This is up there with a Bob Mortimer tale 😂

[@michaelbridge4717]

Send him prison for perverting the course of justice

[@edix1673]

You can see him holding back a smirk as he "explains" the "app going down, and then... back up... somehow lost thousands of messages"

[@5556665012008]

It should still be possible to recover Johnson’s messages from the recipients phones. And if they all wiped their phones at around the same time, that would in itself be extremely suspicious

[@mountain_watcher_8730]

There should be a legal requirement that any government chat group must have a member solely for the purposes of recording and backing-up everything that is said. This should also apply to messages between two people. In this day and age a phone switchover or an app 'going down' should not prevent government communications from being brought up for inspection and scrutiny.

[@edwardalexander9486]

Yup - the "going down" thing. I think this shows the utter incompetence of his voice coaches, who clearly don't know how whatTF works.

[@getmotivated1707]

Work phones are a thing, it should be standard and automatically backed up, any communication using a non work device should be penalised heavily and trigger some sort of investigation. It's not as if we don't have the tech, old school honour system has to go, there's not a gram of honour among them. Same for procurement, the waste is unbelievable, our tech access is such that it should be far less of an issue.

[@zlamanit]

It's already against the rules to use WhatsApp for any “significant government business”. So they broke the rules again and nobody even questioned it.

[@ApplyWithCaution]

... all that would achieve is to stop them saying anything of substance in texts ... they'd go and have a f2f in the rose garden that no-one else can hear ...

[@azoriusmage]

"Constantly being lobbied to sack someone" What a lovely unified bunch of backstabbers