How MI5 bugged Number 10
In the 1970s, I spent four years working in Government under the premierships of Harold Wilson and Jim Callaghan. It was widely known that Wilson feared that MI5 was plotting against his administration but most of us though that he was being paranoid.
Now, in this story, we learn that since 1963 the secret service was bugging various parts of 10 Downing Street: the cabinet room, the waiting room, and the prime minister’s study. This only stopped when Callaghan had the bugs removed in 1977.
In most other countries, news that the secret service was bugging cabinet discussions would be explosive. I’m amazed that there isn’t media focus on and political outrage at this revelation.