on whatsapp about decisions, that were made, the environment in which they were taken, and why the government was slow to respond. mrjohnson made the point that former prime ministers would not have survived this level scrutiny if whatsapp had been around at the time of the falklands or the iraq war. he played down the psychodrama that evolved in number ten, which was charactised in some of the earlier sessions, and the contents of some of the whatsapp messages. but i would make a distinction between the type of language used, and the decision making processes of the government, and what we got done. and i would submit that any powerful and effective government has, and i think of the thatcher government or the blair government, has a lot of challenging and competing characters whose views about each other might not be fit to print. but you get an awful lot done. most of the early session focused on the decisions taken at the beginning of the pandemic. in his evidence the for