The government misled this newsletter over Liz Truss FOI - why?

Cabinet Office told us it treated an FOI request from Emily Thornberry ‘in the usual way’ - now cabinet secretary Simon Case had admitted that this isn’t true

We recently reported on the curious story behind Liz Truss’s £15,000 tax-payer funded bills for food and booze on private jets.

The story was based on a Freedom of Information request. What was curious was that the FOI response was sent straight to the news desk at Politico instead of the requester, Labour shadow attorney general Emily Thornberry, who ha…