A very convenient theft: GUY ADAMS investigates the curious case of No 10 chief, his WhatsApps to Mandelson and the handily timed disappearance of his phone

Some 117,000 phones are pinched in the capital each year, with around 80,000 taken via robberies. Yet in this case, the victim is no ordinary pedestrian but Starmer's ex-chief of staff Morgan McSweeney.


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