Starmer has claimed this morning that it is “a little bit far-fetched” to draw a link between the timely theft of Morgan McSweeney’s phone and the Mandelson files. The quote is vintage Starm-bot:
“Well the phone was stolen. It was reported to the police. There’s a transcript of the call in which Morgan McSweeney gives his name, his date of birth, the details of the phone and the police confirm that it was reported.
Unfortunately, there are thefts like this. It was stolen. It was reported at the time and the police have acknowledged and confirmed that that is what happened.”
The idea that somehow everybody could have seen that sometime in the future there would be a request for the phone is, to my mind, a little bit far-fetched.”
Again, this line is total nonsense. The phone was reported stolen in October, after Mandelson’s sacking. Labour was already bracing for the Tories to use a humble address motion to extract evidence. Is it ‘far-fetched’ to expect McSweeney to tell the police he was the Chief of Staff? Or at the very least back up the phone? Which usually happens by default anyway…
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