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Boris Johnson erased from Grant Shapps spaceport picture
Business Secretary Grant Shapps has denied doctoring a picture on his Twitter feed to remove former Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
Mr Shapps posted a picture of a ministerial visit to Spaceport Cornwall, as he hailed the first rocket launch from UK soil.
But social media users spotted that Mr Johnson, who also went on the trip in 2021, had disappeared from the picture.
Mr Shapps says he wasn't aware it had been edited and has now deleted it.
An identical photo remains on the Number 10 Flickr account, dated 9 June 2021.
It shows Mr Johnson and Mr Shapps side-by-side in Cornwall during a visit to LauncherOne.
The then-Conservative leader is wearing a jacket emblazoned with the words: "Prime Minister".
A source close to Mr Shapps said: "Grant wasn't aware anyone had edited the picture.
"He removed it as soon as it was pointed out. Obviously he wouldn't endorse anyone rewriting history by removing the former PM from a picture."
A Labour Party source said: "The Tories might want to erase their own leaders - but the country is stuck with the consequences of their appalling record: a crashed economy, a broken health service, and an asylum system that doesn't work."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-64223974
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Boris Johnson erased from Grant Shapps spaceport picture
Business Secretary Grant Shapps has denied doctoring a picture on his Twitter feed to remove former Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
Mr Shapps posted a picture of a ministerial visit to Spaceport Cornwall, as he hailed the first rocket launch from UK soil.
But social media users spotted that Mr Johnson, who also went on the trip in 2021, had disappeared from the picture.
Mr Shapps says he wasn't aware it had been edited and has now deleted it.
An identical photo remains on the Number 10 Flickr account, dated 9 June 2021.
It shows Mr Johnson and Mr Shapps side-by-side in Cornwall during a visit to LauncherOne.
The then-Conservative leader is wearing a jacket emblazoned with the words: "Prime Minister".
A source close to Mr Shapps said: "Grant wasn't aware anyone had edited the picture.
"He removed it as soon as it was pointed out. Obviously he wouldn't endorse anyone rewriting history by removing the former PM from a picture."
A Labour Party source said: "The Tories might want to erase their own leaders - but the country is stuck with the consequences of their appalling record: a crashed economy, a broken health service, and an asylum system that doesn't work."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-64223974
