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The WhatsApp chats will be handed to the inquiry, a spokesperson for the former PM says

Technical experts have recovered all relevant messages from Boris Johnson’s old phone that he had been advised not to use on security grounds and he will hand them over “unredacted” to the coronavirus inquiry, a spokesman for the ex-prime minister has said.

Government officials are helping him to try to retrieve the messages on the locked device relating to the early pandemic response, it is understood.

Government officials are helping him to try to retrieve the messages on the locked device relating to the early pandemic response, it is understood.

The SNP have called for a “full, independent inquiry” into whether Scottish Tory MP David Duguid has broken the ministerial code.

Device containing Covid-era messages up until May 2021 remains in former PM’s possession

The Cabinet Office had sought to withhold documents it regarded as irrelevant to the inquiry’s work.

The Cabinet Office initially tried to keep secret the cost of painting the Titan Airways jet. But he was forced to reveal the price following a complaint to the Information Commissioner’s Office

Exclusive: A parliamentary question has been submitted calling for a government-wide investigation into official documents