BORIS Johnson has ordered a major probe into leaking of information from Whitehall – amid fears there’s a Labour mole working at the highest level of government.
The PM is said to be worried about an insider working at the top of the civil service, the Daily Mail reported.
Government sources said Boris was concerned after multiple top-secret documents were leaked in the general election campaign.
One source said: “There was a pattern through the campaign of unhelpful documents being released. The intention was to embarrass the Government.”
The insider added: “It does suggest we have a Labour mole and we are going to root them out.”
One of them was a Treasury document about Brexit which appeared to contradict some of the PM’s claims about how goods would flow to Northern Ireland after we leave the EU.
The documents were said to have only been passed around to a small number of people.
Jeremy Corbyn’s team brandished the documents in the final TV leaders’ debate of the campaign.
A senior Government source said it was an “initial” assessment and the PM hadn’t signed it off.
A separate inquiry is also underway after 400 pages of minutes about US-UK trade talks were leaked as well – and lauded by the Labour campaign.
Mr Corbyn claimed they were “proof” the Tories would sell off the NHS to Donald Trump if he got re-elected, but there were actually only four mentions of the health service in there.
But it was later revealed that his leak came from Russia, after analysts warned about interference in the election campaign.
President Trump even came out in the campaign to say he had no intention of including the NHS in trade talks between the two countries, which can finally start after we leave the EU.
After MPs passed the first stage of Boris Johnson’s deal at the end of last year, the UK is on track to leave on January 31 as repeatedly promised.
