Boris Johnson fails to hand over mobile with Covid WhatsApps before inquiry deadline

However, Mr Johnson’s office said his team was still working with government security officials on how best to switch on the old phone

Firstly it seems really funny that a team of government security officials are "figuring out" how to turn on an old phone when my own phone is probably older.

But secondly it would be really trivial for someone with basic technical knowledge to extract the memory storage component and recover the data even if it never turned on again.