Was it Darling?
"We have never seen this level of detail on a budget situation before." -
"Officials are far from happy about the Tories getting hold of confidential documents, and they haven't ruled out calling in the police" -
There seems to be an air of astonishment about the Tories game-changing coup in getting hold of the most sensitive of sensitive Treasury documents. Some are arguing that it is proof that Osborne's famed mystical Treasury mole is alive and well. TB spoke to a friend earlier who used to work in the Treasury and he assured him that the ability to copy, not necessarily see, but copy a document like that was limited to a small amount of extremely senior people. Something about this document is different. This is by far the most significant leak yet and way beyond anything the Tories have been able to get their hands on thus far.
Darling really has had the raw end of the deal in the last two years, having had to pick up the pieces of his predecessors criminal economic hokery pokery. He stood his ground after an attempt to move him and is getting bolder and bolder by the day. It was well reported that he was against the lines that Gordon was using about Tory cuts vs Labour investments, no doubt because he had actually read this document. It has been speculated on before that Darling could be the one to eventually bring down the nutter next door...
Could this be the first stirrings of a plot to destabilise the Prime Minister in the run up to Labour Conference?
Prove he is a liar. Tick.
What's next?
Channel 4
"Officials are far from happy about the Tories getting hold of confidential documents, and they haven't ruled out calling in the police" -
Guardian
There seems to be an air of astonishment about the Tories game-changing coup in getting hold of the most sensitive of sensitive Treasury documents. Some are arguing that it is proof that Osborne's famed mystical Treasury mole is alive and well. TB spoke to a friend earlier who used to work in the Treasury and he assured him that the ability to copy, not necessarily see, but copy a document like that was limited to a small amount of extremely senior people. Something about this document is different. This is by far the most significant leak yet and way beyond anything the Tories have been able to get their hands on thus far.
Darling really has had the raw end of the deal in the last two years, having had to pick up the pieces of his predecessors criminal economic hokery pokery. He stood his ground after an attempt to move him and is getting bolder and bolder by the day. It was well reported that he was against the lines that Gordon was using about Tory cuts vs Labour investments, no doubt because he had actually read this document. It has been speculated on before that Darling could be the one to eventually bring down the nutter next door...
Could this be the first stirrings of a plot to destabilise the Prime Minister in the run up to Labour Conference?
Prove he is a liar. Tick.
What's next?
2 comments:
How strange you should pose this particular question, TB - that's just what I have been hearing around Whitehall.
Security was tight when GB was at
1 Horse Guards Road and has been even tighter since his departure.
This is far too sensitive a document to be one of the Admin. staff grabbing a quick photocopy, let alone taking the chance of e.mailing it out.
Don't expect to find any 'fingerprints', but if it is not Darling himself, it is somebody either very close to him, or more intriguingly, operating with his full knowledge and protection.
Fascinating...
WG
Indeed.
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