Richard Tice asked Cabinet Office minister Chris Ward about the release of files from the Humble Address at an Urgent Question:
“Can the minister confirm… the position with regard to disappearing WhatsApp messages and deleted messages? Can they technically be retrieved from the system in order to be given to the Intelligence and Security Committee?”
Ward replied:
“He raises a very interesting question. I’m afraid I really don’t know the answers to it, but I imagine it’s one that a lot of people are considering, but I will come back to it.”
There is no strategy, deleting WhatsApps is helpful to the ongoing cover-up operation…
Andy Haldane, Burnham’s recent adviser on the economy who has not taken up a No10 job, told Andrew Marr on LBC:
“The market now suspects that this is a traditional tax-and-spend socialist government with better TikTok videos…
imposing windfall taxes on oil & gas or on banks or upping capital gains tax would […] repeat the mistake that Rachel made […] The Achilles heel, the fiscal Achilles heel of this government thus far has been its unwillingness and/or inability to cut public spending.”