The “Number 10 probes Remain MPs’ ‘foreign collusion’ story was 'fake news'
23 Oct 2019
"Number 10 probes Remain MPs' 'foreign collusion'." This was a huge banner headline dominating the front page of The Mail on Sunday on 29 September.
Turn to page 2 and "a senior No 10 source" was quoted in bold type: "The government is working on extensive investigations into various MPs BUT no one asked the question whether such an investigation was actually REAL.
Yesterday a Cabinet Office spokesperson told openDemocracy: "There was never such an investigation."
In other words, the Mail on Sunday splash that Downing Street was investigating MPs was Fake News.
https://www.opendemocracy.net/…/british-journalists-have-b…/