‘Tech Bro’ Rishi Sunak Mocked In Commons Over Missing Covid Inquiry WhatsApp Evidence

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was mocked by Labour in the Commons on Wednesday, during Prime Minister’s Questions, over his missing Covid Inquiry WhatsApp evidence and his dire polling figures.

In a teasing question for Sunak, Labour MP Chris Bryant stood to ask: “What’s worse, losing your WhatsApp messages as tech bro, losing £11.8 billion to fraud as chancellor, presiding over the biggest fall in living standards in history, or desperately clinging on to power when you’ve become even more unpopular than [former Prime Minister] Boris Johnson?”

The prime minister, holding composure, replied: “What matters to me is delivering for the British people and that’s exactly what we are doing.”

The prime minister, who has consistently boosted himself as tech enthusiast, held an artificial intelligence conference sit down with tech mogul Elon Musk in November. On Monday, however, Sunak told the inquiry’s lead counsel, Hugo Keith KC, that missing WhatsApp records, directly impacting the ongoing Covid inquiry, were lost after he’d changed his phone multiple times since the pandemic and couldn’t get the messages to carry across devices.

Sunak served in the key role as chancellor under Johnson during the pandemic.

Labour leader Keir Starmer also laid into the prime minister and the Conservative Party chaos that followed the Sunak’s push to have his Rwanda bill, which passed vote on Tuesday. The opposition leader joked that ahead of next week’s Tory Christmas party that event clearly had a “nativity donkey” — in the form of Sunak — but that “the search for three wise men may take longer.”