Opinion | The Guardian•Today at 05:00
Leaked WhatsApps, embarrassing emails: it’s bad for British politics that privacy is now dead | Simon Jenkins
Yet his sympathy was not even on the public record, in the 1500 pages of new revelations about the Mandelson affair. Millions of pounds that should years ago have been given to victims of the Windrush, Grenfell and Post Office scandals are still filling the pockets of lawyers and officials. The more than £200m being spent on the Covid inquiry – an exercise some other European countries completed in months – is inexcusable.