BREAKING: It has been claimed that Suella Braverman told a mystery person they must ‘delete and ignore’ a top-secret email.
Mr Gove said Braverman is ‘absolutely’ a politician of integrity, and said that asking someone to ‘delete and ignore’ the top secret information is ‘standard practice.’supports HTML5 video
‘That would have been quite proper for the Home Secretary to have said to the recipient of something that was sent an error ‘please do delete and ignore it’.He added the message was intended for another parliamentarian and ‘so it’s not as though it was being sent out into the ether to persons unknown’.
Asked about Labour’s demands that the Government releases information about the chain of events, Mr Gove said: ‘When you are dealing with national security measures, then it will often be the case that there is information that you cannot share because that might compromise national security, or the effective operation of government.
‘We think that the papers and the warnings that were provided by the Cabinet Office and by the Cabinet Secretary to the Prime Minister should be sent to the Intelligence and Security Committee.