The Commons Speaker said this afternoon that he had 'directed senior officials to consider what implications there are for security arrangements' in Parliament after the Whitehall leak. Junior Cabinet Office minister Julia Lopez insisted that was not the case and her understanding was 'it was a CCTV camera and it was not a covert device'. It came as Cabinet ministers demanded their offices be urgently swept for secret cameras after the exit of Mr Hancock. He warned that such footage could be used to damage national security should it fall into the hands of 'unfriendly governments'. Lib Dem MP Jamie Stone said: ‘It occurs to me that the security camera, and I think we are accepting they are security cameras, must have been pretty covert, surely to goodness.'

Source: The Nation June 28, 2021 16:41 UTC