The Prime Minister’s office refuses to comment on whether Mandelson’s messages were lost in the incident involving the theft of his senior advisor’s phone. Starmer, of course, has nothing to admit. He has no choice but to remain in his position by denying everything. He appointed Lord Mandelson despite knowing of his relationship with Epstein and ignoring warnings from the Secret Service, and now it’s being claimed that the messages from Mandelson reached his chief advisor’s mobile phone, but that former Chief of Staff Morgan McSweeney was unaware of the messages because his own phone was stolen.
Could it be true? It could be! It wouldn’t be a surprise. The fact that phone theft is constantly increasing in a country and has even reached number 10 is both comical and shameful. If an advisor can’t even protect his own phone, how can he protect the state?
The fact that bicycle thieves steal dozens of phones every day, especially in central London around Oxford Circus, Piccadilly, and Regent Street, and then escape, has become routine. It was even revealed in police investigations four months ago that a gang had formed to do this.
The location where former chief of staff Morgan McSweeney had his phone stolen is a matter of great curiosity. If it was inside Number 10, the thief could have been inside. If it was while he was walking to the underground or to his car after leaving the Prime Minister’s residence, the thief was definitely one of the bicycle thieves, and someone might have snatched it from his hand while he was talking.
It’s both embarrassing and funny.