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…
Tom Baldwin, author of Starmer’s hagiography, spoke to Times Radio:
Tom Baldwin: “I think he’d like to do something. He’s very dutiful and driven by service. That’s why he came into politics. I think that’s characterised his time as prime minister. He hasn’t always sought popularity or been good at being popular. But I think he has some of the necessary qualities that we actually do want in a prime minister. That resilience, that relentlessness, that ability to carry the weight and the job really does weigh very heavily on people and he carries that weight very, very well.”
Jo Coburn: “NATO Secretary-General?”
Tom Baldwin: “I think that’s something that he would be interested in. I think it probably requires Andy Burnham’s government to support him in that and these are some of the questions which Andy Burnham has to resolve quite quickly.”