Lord Bethell, a Tory hereditary peer, claimed to have lost all his messages during the pandemic, but has now produced a message from Michelle Mone to defend Rishi Sunak. However, a government lawyer stated that he lost access to messages prior to 2021, yet the message he posted is dated 2020. Similarly, Penny Mordaunt has raised concerns about Boris Johnson's deleted WhatsApp messages, stating that her exchanges with him vanished from her phone, and her attempts to discuss this with Johnson's No 10 were ignored.
Jeez. Penny Mordaunt has told the Covid inquiry that a series of WhatsApp messages with Boris Johnson mysteriously disappeared from her phone, and that Johnson’s then chief of staff ignored 14 attempts by her to arrange a meeting to discuss the matter https://t.co/J1eX9fdWug
Penny Mordaunt says she contacted Boris Johnson's chief of staff 14 times about Johnson's deleted WhatsApp messages but was ignored, and then told she would have to pay for any investigation herself. She later discovered that messages from Michael Gove had also disappeared https://t.co/ZxnzWPWyd1
If you missed this last night: the strange case of how Penny Mordaunt has told the Covid inquiry that Boris Johnson’s messages suddenly vanished from her phone, and how she tried 14 times to discuss this with Johnson’s No 10. https://t.co/N7Da3Nj3mg
“If this was a Labour government it would lead the news Part 5,328,138”Penny Mordaunt: Boris Johnson’s messages vanished from my phone | Penny Mordaunt | The Guardian … there is a real scandal here and both Johnson and Sunak at the heart of it https://t.co/DaQ3hHZPhb
NEW: The curious case of "missing" WhatsApps from Boris Johnson: Penny Mordaunt claims today she has been sleuthing for over 2 years to understand the "disappearance" of several exchanges she had with the then-PM. She says in May 2021 she "became aware that key WhatsApp… https://t.co/TLOyCTrR7E
Lord Bethell has previously had a government lawyer issue a witness statement that he had lost his phone in early 2021 and lost all access to SMS and WhatsApp messages prior to that date. The imessage he has posted is dated 2020. https://t.co/GLtx2kMsHq
Tory hereditary peer Lord Bethell "lost" all his messages for the time of the pandemic!! Weirdly he's now found one relating to Michelle Mone David Cameron who's now hidden his assets into a "blind trust" put Mone into the Lords. She's a liar & the rest of them are what?? https://t.co/owzsRXTfQ9
Extraordinary! Lord Bethell (@JimBethell) who told the #CovidInquiry that he’d lost his WhatsApp messages because his phone was lost, then broken, then given away, then erased, has managed to dig up a message from @MichelleMone & posted it to defend @RishiSunak Rats in a sack! https://t.co/dDJ6FqwTr9 https://t.co/5sAeaZWUfN