Covid inquiry live updates: Johnson aide turned on disappearing WhatsApp messages – BBC News

[ad_1] Covid inquiry live updates: Johnson aide turned on disappearing WhatsApp messages - BBC News BreakingBreaking newsClose breaking news SummaryMartin Reynolds - who headed the private office of the prime minister during the pandemic - has been giving evidence at the Covid inquiryThe inquiry heard that Reynolds turned on the "disappearing messages" function in a WhatsApp group of top officials in April 2021Reynolds said he could not recall why he did so, but that he may have been worried about someone leaking his exchanges to the pressHe acknowledged that ministers should have been planning "far more vigorously", and there was an absence of contact with the PM during a 10-day period in February 2020Also due to give evidence today is Imran Shafi - who was another private secretary - and Johnson's former director of communications Lee CainThis phase of the inquiry is looking at political governance during the pandemic. 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