Sir Keir Starmer still has confidence in Darren Jones, Downing Street said, after the Cabinet minister reportedly told Lord Peter Mandelson he was “so sorry” on the day he was sacked as ambassador to the US in a message that was not released as part of a tranche of documents this week.
It comes as questions have been raised about how the use of disappearing messages in WhatsApp has led to some exchanges being absent from the more than 1,000 pages of so-called Mandelson files released on Monday.