Sunak says he is 'expansively' helping Covid-19 inquiry after WhatsApp claims – Alloa Advertiser

Rishi Sunak has insisted he is “expansively” helping the UK Covid-19 Inquiry after it was claimed he is unable to provide WhatsApp messages because he failed to back them up. The Prime Minister wrote in his witness statement to the inquiry that he does “not have access” to the messages from when he was chancellor because he changed his phone several times, the Guardian reported. It comes as the second stage of the inquiry got under way on Tuesday. It will examine the key decisions made by the Government between January 2020 and February 2022. Asked by the BBC at the Conservative Party conference in Manchester whether it was true he no longer had the WhatsApp messages, Mr Sunak refused to be drawn, saying: “What I can tell you because obviously this is a legal process which is going on, is that I’m helping the Covid inquiry fully and very, very expansively with everything.” Asked again about the messages, he replied: “I think as people will know that this is the legal inquiry, there’s a full process, I submit a lot of different evidence and documentation. I will be interviewed, all of that will be transparent and public. “And of course
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