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<\/p>\nRishi Sunak\u2019s personal mobile phone number has appeared online in a security breach.<\/p>\n
The PM\u2019s number was revealed after social media pranksters published audio of the phone ringing and his answerphone message responding. He was reportedly given a new, separate number when he came to power last year.<\/p>\n
But the pranksters\u2019 video appears to show his personal number, which he has used for many years including while Chancellor, is still in operation.<\/p>\n
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The breach comes after Biggles told the UK Covid-19 inquiry he was unable to \u00adprovide WhatsApp messages sent from the number.<\/p>\n
He claimed he had changed phones several times so \u201cdoes not have access\u201d to them.<\/p>\n
Previously Boris \u201cBozo\u201d Johnson\u2019s number was available online while Prime Minister.<\/p>\n
He was advised to stop using it on security grounds<\/p>\n
That led to a drawn-out process to extract his messages for the Covid-19 inquiry.<\/p>\n
A Downing Street spokesperson said: \u201cWe don\u2019t comment on security matters.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sunak is also reportedly planning to build a fence around his country home.<\/p>\n
It follows a protest by Greenpeace activists in August that saw them scale the roof of the Grade II-listed mansion near Northallerton, North Yorks.<\/p>\n
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The application, to North Yorkshire Council, says the wooden fence is to \u201cprovide a simple visual and modest physical barrier to discourage incursion\u201d.<\/p>\n
Earlier this month Sunak announced plans to banish smoking, increasing the legal age at which someone can buy tobacco by one year every year.<\/p>\n
He said: "We must tackle the single biggest entirely preventable cause of ill health, disability and death. And that is smoking. In our country smoking causes one in four cancer deaths.<\/p>\n
"If we are to do the right thing for our kids, we must try and stop teenagers taking up cigarettes in the first place. Because without a significant change thousands of children will start smoking in the coming years and have their lives cut short as a result."<\/p>\n
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