Is Boris Johnson running Britain in secret by WhatsApp? PM clashes with No.10 mandarin over text messages - and Carrie Symonds is said to 'prompt' him as he phones ministers
Boris Johnson has clashed with Britain’s most senior mandarin after insisting on making top secret policy decisions on WhatsApp. Cabinet Secretary Simon Case intervened after concern that some texts from the Prime Minister’s official account on the messaging service appeared to have been sent by someone other than him. In a separate development, Mr Johnson’s partner Carrie Symonds is understood to have been overheard ‘prompting’ him in the background during confidential phone calls to ministers and officials. The Prime Minister has clashed with Britain’s most senior mandarin after insisting on making top secret policy decisions on WhatsApp, with some claiming to have been overheard his partner Carrie Symonds (pictured together) ‘prompting’ him in the background during confidential phone calls to ministers and officials The extraordinary WhatsApp dispute follows a move by Mr Johnson earlier this month to extend the use of a secret Downing Street WhatsApp group for routine messages to se