The fact (that I now accept) that they were using work-issue phones aside, 'I can't remember' is incontestable.
Unfortunately this also applies to 'I can't remember who deleted all my messages'.
Whether the summing up accepts this as remotely plausible is another matter. My guess is it will...
I can understand about emails. I am under the same strictures - when I use my XX.AC.UK account. And have been bollocked for gobbing off via it. But WhatsApp is private, even if you use it to chat about work, surely?
Indeed.
And while I have no time for Sunak or Johnson, I don't see why they should be made to surrender their WhatsApp messages.
I thought Sunak sounded confident and assured yesterday. Of course he was lying about what he could recall and indeed what he thought and said, but who can blame...