[Livia]

Originally Posted by MTVN

Downing Street is denying the Jewish Chronicle story:

"“It is not true that the Prime Minister knew about the International Development Secretary’s meeting with PM Netanyahu before Friday 3rd November. It is equally untrue to say that No 10 asked DfID to remove any meetings from the list they published this week."

https://order-order.com/2017/11/08/n...report-untrue/

To labour a hackneyed old phrase, they would say that, wouldn't they.

This is my area of work. I work for the government and travel to Israel a lot. If No.10 didn't know about Patel's visit I'd be very surprised. If they did and they are denying it... sounds more plausible.

Still, it gives Mrs May a chance to lurch away from yesterday's problem and collapse on to this one.