Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says he has “changed his phone multiple times” over the last few years, and as a result the “messages haven’t come across” to his new mobile. He adds he is “not a prolific user of WhatsApp” where messages are being used as evidence during the Inquiry.
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00:00 You don't now have access to any of the WhatsApps that you did send during the time of the crisis,
00:05 do you? No, I don't. I've changed my phone multiple times over the past few years,
00:11 and as that has happened, the messages have not come across. As you said, I'm not a prolific user
00:18 of WhatsApp in the first instance, primarily communication with my private office, and
00:23 obviously anything that was of significance through those conversations or exchanges will
00:30 have been recorded officially by my civil servants, as one would expect. It's probably quite a long
00:36 shot, but do you recall changing phones around that time as it happened? Not around that time,
00:41 as I said. I have changed my phone multiple times in the years since then, and as I said previously,
00:48 every time that's happened, the messages wouldn't have come across. But as I said, I'm not a
00:52 prolific user of WhatsApp, and with the private office again, that would have all been recorded
00:57 formally on the record, or indeed, where I've had exchanges with other individuals,
01:02 some of those have been part of the evidence that's formed the inquiries deliberations.