Dear Editor
Were a prominent politician to hide their private life behind injunctions, one might wonder whether that politician could be compromised. Were that prominent politician seen to be involved in decisions which apparently favoured an inimical foreign power, one might wonder whether that politician was indeed compromised.
At what points on the long road from becoming a prospective parliamentary candidate to assuming one of the great offices of state, or indeed being invited by the monarch to form a government, would that politician have been subject to serious scrutiny by the security services? And once that politician was in power, would there be a process of ongoing review?
I’m sure I needn’t lie awake worrying about such hypothetical issues, for our ever-competent state must have considered all this and much more besides.
John Rigby
Chorley, Lancashire
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