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ERG chair says Rwanda bill should be pulled; Sunak tells Covid inquiry that describing Treasury as ‘pro-death squad’ was wrong – live

ERG told by legal ‘star chamber’ that Rwanda bill is ‘partial solution’; PM says he was not aware of claims about Treasury by No 10 during Covid

Sunak says the PM had to balance competing interests during Covid.

Only he could do that, because only he saw all the competing arguments made by different cabinet ministers.

Your phone, you said, doesn’t retain, and nor do you have access to, text messages at all relating to the period of the crisis.

In addition, you said although on occasion you use WhatsApp to communicate around meetings and logistics and so on, you generally were only party to WhatsApp groups that were set up to deal with individual circumstances such as arrangements for calls, meetings and so on and so forth. You don’t now have access to any of the WhatsApps that you did send during the time of the crisis, do you?

I’ve changed my phone multiple times over the past few years and, as that has happened, the messages have not come across.

As you said, I’m not a prolific user of WhatsApp in the first instance – primarily communication with my private office and obviously anything that was of significance through those conversations or exchanges would have been recorded officially by my civil servants as one would expect.

Continue reading… The Guardian Read More ERG told by legal ‘star chamber’ that Rwanda bill is ‘partial solution’; PM says he was not aware of claims about Treasury by No 10 during CovidSunak says the PM had to balance competing interests during Covid.Only he could do that, because only he saw all the competing arguments made by different cabinet ministers.Your phone, you said, doesn’t retain, and nor do you have access to, text messages at all relating to the period of the crisis.In addition, you said although on occasion you use WhatsApp to communicate around meetings and logistics and so on, you generally were only party to WhatsApp groups that were set up to deal with individual circumstances such as arrangements for calls, meetings and so on and so forth. You don’t now have access to any of the WhatsApps that you did send during the time of the crisis, do you?I’ve changed my phone multiple times over the past few years and, as that has happened, the messages have not come across.As you said, I’m not a prolific user of WhatsApp in the first instance – primarily communication with my private office and obviously anything that was of significance through those conversations or exchanges would have been recorded officially by my civil servants as one would expect. Continue reading…