Oh dear. It’s safe to say that the Conservative party’s foray into WhatsApp hasn’t always been plain sailing. After MPs formed an official Tory MPs’ group on the encrypted messaging app to communicate with one another, many presumed their conversations would be secure. Alas this hasn’t proved to be the case – with the papers frequently filled with details of embarrassing exchanges on the group from bust-ups over Brexit to MPs outing each other for failing to understand what the customs union is.
Happily, a solution is on the horizon. In today’s i paper, Katy Balls reports that a number of Tory MPs are defecting to Confide – a “military-grade encryption” app with a self-destructing messaging system that deletes messages immediately after reading. The big plus is that even if an old foe has particularly quick reactions, you can’t take a screenshot on this system – so there’s no chance of your message being made public.
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