Oh pricey. Whereas most of us could have had an embarrassing IT cock-up sooner or later in our lives, most of us don’t have a Prime Minister for a son. So it was with some sympathy that Mr S noticed the news that Stanley Johnson had mistakenly emailed particulars of a non-public assembly he had had with the Chinese language ambassador to a BBC journalist.
What’s much less comprehensible is why the 79-year-old is freelancing for the Overseas Workplace within the first place. The federal government has insisted that Stanley was not performing at their request.
Johnson senior was making an attempt to relay notes from a dialogue he had earlier this week with Liu Xiaoming, who advised him that Beijing was sad with the dearth of communication over coronavirus coming from No. 10. Stanley managed to ahead on the message to setting minister Zac Goldsmith however in some way copied in a BBC electronic mail handle.
If Stanley is searching for an IT refresher, maybe he ought to get in touch together with his son’s former acquaintance Jennifer Arcuri. She has, prior to now, been very eager to administer a know-how lesson to the odd Johnson…