How worried should Sunak be over private WhatsApp messages? Probably very - though maybe not for the reasons most think
It's easy to have witnessed events over this past week or so and to have been distracted from the fact that Rishi Sunak is still attempting to block vital WhatsApp correspondence as part of the Covid Inquiry's investigation that finally got underway on Tuesday.
The Prime Minister was asked directly last week whether he was worried about something coming out during the Covid inquiry proceedings that would embarrass him personally.
Sunak replied: "No, not at all.”
I mean, it’s not as though Sunak has anything to hide... Right?
This page being this page, as awkward and as contrarian as it sometimes is, the first thing I’d usually try and do to address the commentary on social media that speaks of ‘goverment cover-ups’ is by spending several days researching, writing and eventually publishing an article discussing why it isn’t a
Contrary to the view that Sunak might be ‘worried’ about the contents, he might not actually be ‘that’ worried for his record and policies as Chancellor [with their consequences] has been judged in the court of public opinion for the last several years already.
For many of the things you would expect Rishi Sunak to feel ashamed about, he was actually rather proud of his achievements as Chancellor; and he marked the consequences of policy as ‘trade-offs’ or ‘a means to an end’.