Ministers and No 10 aides are using disappearing WhatsApp messages despite transparency concerns
MPs, ministers and special advisers are using the disappearing messages function on WhatsApp despite concerns it means crucial records could be lost. Analysis by i found over a dozen examples of both ministers and special advisers having disappearing messages activated on numbers linked to them. Four of the individuals identified as having the feature turned on work in No 10 Downing Street, while two are current Cabinet ministers and two are in Labour’s shadow Cabinet. A further six were special advisers for ministers working across other departments. It is not clear whether these ministers and aides have additional phones which they use for government business, but many of the WhatsApp accounts identified are regularly used as contact points for journalists. More than 20 MPs from both the Conservatives and Labour also had the feature activated, which means any correspondence they have with an aide, minister or government official via WhatsApp may not be retained. Shortly after Inews contacted the Government about the use of the function, several of the individuals subsequently turned off disappearing messages on their WhatsApp accounts.
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