Met Police ‘too busy’ to investigate theft of Morgan McSweeney’s phone as texts with Lord Mandelson ‘could be lost’

Metropolitan Police officers did not investigate the theft of a phone which contained sensitive WhatsApp messages and text exchanges to Peter Mandelson because they were “too busy”. The device had belonged to Keir Starmer s former Chief of Staff, Morgan McSweeney, who would resign over the scandal relating to Lord Mandelson s appointment as US ambassador. Communications stored on the phone are now impossible to retrieve, creating a significant gap in the Government s mandated disclosure of all

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Met Police ‘too busy’ to investigate theft of Morgan McSweeney’s phone as texts with Lord Mandelson ‘could be lost’

Metropolitan Police officers did not investigate the theft of a phone which contained sensitive WhatsApp messages and text exchanges to Peter Mandelson because they were “too busy”. The device had belonged to Keir Starmer s former Chief of Staff, Morgan McSweeney, who would resign over the scandal relating to Lord Mandelson s appointment as US ambassador. Communications stored on the phone are now impossible to retrieve, creating a significant gap in the Government s mandated disclosure of all

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