Reputational Damage

Andy Burnham is as bad as Wes Streeting. Josh Simons would still be the Minister for Digital ID if it had not been shown that he had falsely reported to GCHQ that critical journalists, including Keir Starmer’s Independent opponent at the General Election, were Russian spies.

All overseen by Suzanne Ashman, the daughter-in-law of Tony Blair of the Tony Blair Institute, not to say of Donald Trump’s Board of Peace, that Institute’s digital ID is of a piece with the granting of unlimited access to identifiable patient data by NHS England to the Palantir of Jeffrey Epstein’s Peter Thiel, to the Palantir that was a client of Epstein’s Peter Mandelson, to the Palantir of ICE and IDF infamy, and to the Palantir with which Starmer and Mandelson had off-the-books meetings in Washington while Mandelson, under whom Streeting had learned so much, was Ambassador there.