The Treasury’s top official deleted his replies to David Cameron’s lobbying texts after his password was wrongly entered on his phone, the government has claimed.
The former PM sent dozens of messages to senior officials and ministers, pleading in vain for government cash to prop up failed financiers Greensill Capital.
But Sir Tom Scholar, the Permanent Secretary at the Treasury was unable to publish his replies to 12 messages from Mr Cameron because his phone had been reset.
The blunder was revealed in response to a Freedom of Information request lodged by Bloomberg. In one of Mr Cameron’s messages to Sir Tom on March 6, the former PM appeared to predict a Bank of England interest rate cut five days before it was announced.
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