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Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, The Spectator's Daily Politics Podcast. I'm John Connolly,

and I'm joined today by James Forsyth and Katie Balls. Now, today the Prime Minister had a rather

unfortunate security lapse to give us a break from sort of the rolling sleeves scandals. Katie,

do you want to start us off by telling us a bit what happened to the Prime Minister

this morning last night?

So this is news which was revealed in Pop Bitch and is now leading the BBC website.

Boris Johnson's personal mobile phone number available online for 15 years.

And basically when the Pop Bitch newsletter went around yesterday, they're making the point

that actually if you were to look when Boris Johnson was MP for Henley and had a press

release at that time, his phone number is actually on the bottom of it. And the phone number,

we believe, has not changed since then. And I think this is interesting because last week

there were stories ultimately

saying that Simon Case, the cabinet secretary, had been suggesting, or had previously

suggested to the Prime Minister he should change his phone number because too many people

had his phone number. And there's been some interesting cases highlighted. For example,

I think someone actually just got in touch with Boris Johnson,

not knowing him, got the number for a friend to talk about their own, like, DWP-related

issue.

Boris Johnson passed them on.

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