UK security sources said they did not trust Sir Gavin and that his new role 'certainly poses a risk'
His responsibilities as minister without portfolio include overseeing a National Security Council project that helps protect UK interests from international threats, as well as supporting Oliver Dowden in his duties as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, which includes Mr Dowden attending the National Security Council.
And a former minister also said Sir Gavin’s past record on the issue of national security would mean he would not be trusted by officials and the security services.: “Officials will have lost trust in him. They will think ‘sometimes a leopard doesn’t change its spots’. There will be that concern. Officials will have to be extra careful when showing him documents – and if that is the case, then there can be no trust.
Previously, Sir Gavin has strenuously denied being behind the leak in 2019, and has described it as a “shabby and discredited witch-hunt.”
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