Cabinet Secretary Denies Record Of Starmer Appointment Meeting
The Cabinet Secretary has informed the Conservative Party that no record exists regarding a mid-December meeting involving Keir Starmer and Lord Mandelson. The specific details of the meeting remain unknown. This lack of documentation concerns officials because the meeting involved a consequential appointment. The absence of a paper trail has led to suggestions that the lack of records may have been deliberate to avoid future accountability. A mass disclosure of documents via a humble address has revealed no minutes or decision notes regarding the Prime Minister's recent consequential appointment. There is no documentation from Keir Starmer or Morgan McSweeney explaining the calculations or risk assessments made at the time of the decision. A former head of the Foreign Office security team provided evidence that vetting documents were written down and then shredded.
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“the Cabinet Secretary has written to the Tories after they asked us some questions... and she has said they can find absolutely no record.”
“The Tories, and she has said they can find absolutely no record. I thought was really interesting of any meeting which Stammer made this decision. They can find no minutes from any such meeting and they can find no decision note.”
“They can find no minutes from any such meeting and they can find no decision note. And that kind of matters because this is obviously a big consequential appointment.”
“The whole thing is shrouded in secrecy. We also had evidence from someone at the Foreign Office's security team, the former head of their security team.”
“Antonia Romeo has written to the Tories and she has said they can find absolutely no record of any meeting at which Starmer made this decision.”
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