Grant Shapps Posts, Then Deletes, Picture With Boris Johnson Edited Out

Grant Shapps has sparked some response after he posted a photograph of himself – standing subsequent to a wierd blur – visiting Spaceport Cornwall over the weekend.

Though the picture was posted on Sunday, the day earlier than the tried first ever satellite tv for pc launch from the UK, the picture itself was not from that very same day – though the enterprise secretary didn’t clarify that in his caption.

As an alternative, he wrote: “The UK authorities is delighted to be backing the FIRST ever satellite tv for pc launch from European soil. Elevate-off scheduled Monday at Spaceport Cornwall, Newquay 🚀”

He then inspired individuals to affix Virgin Orbit’s livestream for watch the Begin Me Up mission.

However, trying again on the firm’s earlier posts, we will see that the unique picture comes from June 9, 2021, when Shapps was the transport secretary in then-prime minister Boris Johnson’s authorities.

Within the authentic picture, Johnson is standing within the centre, proper the place there was a blur in Shapps’ current picture.

Shapps can be sporting a jacket which says “transport secretary” in it, a element which was not edited out within the new submit.

In some unspecified time in the future on Tuesday morning although, Shapps deleted the submit.

HuffPost UK has approached the BEIS division for remark.

When requested by journalists in regards to the picture, the prime minister’s spokesperson refused to remark.

One reporter in contrast it to “Stalinist revisionism”, in a reference to Leon Trotsky being airbrushed out of historical past underneath the Soviet Union.

It’s additionally price noting that Shapps appeared to share one other submit from his go to with Johnson to Spaceport Cornwall final 12 months, on June 9, 2021.

His caption then learn: “We’re happy to announce a joint UK/US Taskforce to assist facilitate the reopening of transatlantic journey.”

He tagged each Johnson and POTUS, the US president Joe Biden.

Johnson was ousted from workplace again in July after a wave of MPs left his authorities, led primarily by present PM Rishi Sunak and former well being secretary Sajid Javid.

Shapps then turned a vocal supporter of Sunak’s marketing campaign to get into No.10.

When Liz Truss was elected as an alternative, Shapps was drafted in briefly as house secretary when Suella Braverman abruptly stop.

Truss then stood down after lower than two months, Sunak was elected and Shapps was appointed in his present function as enterprise, power and industrial technique secretary.