MI5 should investigate Boris Johnson as ‘a security risk’

David Bluckett has said that MI5 should investigate Prime Minister Boris Johnson as ‘a security risk’ following the leaks of TV footage and emails about the Downing Street parties.

The former Labour cabinet minister said that emerging evidence suggests that the Prime Minister’s staff do not have ‘the first idea about the potential of cyber attack’ and that the counter terrorism division of the Metropolitan Police, together with MI5, ‘should take a very urgent look’.

Blunkett’s comments follow an allegation that Johnson left top-secret documents lying around when visitors came to his Downing Street flat – prompting his aides to ban him from taking the files upstairs.

Blanket told LBC Radio that there is a problem within Downing Street concerning appropriately understanding ‘the genuine security that they should have in place’.