A senior civil servant during the pandemic admitted setting WhatsApp messages to 'disappear' after the COVID inquiry was announced - but said he can't remember why.
Martin Reynolds, who was Boris Johnson's principal private secretary, turned on a 'disappearing message function' on a WhatsApp group titled 'PM Updates' on 15 April 2021, the COVID inquiry has heard. Asked why he did this during his evidence session, he said he can 'guess' and 'speculate' but he 'cannot recall exactly why I did so'.
He described Dominic Cummings - once Mr Johnson's ally and now his adversary - as the 'most empowered chief of staff Downing Street had ever seen'. Asked if the Cabinet Office was incapable of managing a crisis, he said: 'I do think there are many things that could have been done differently. It didn't have the plans and processes in place to move from the early stage through to the crisis stage.
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