Last week MEE reported that the Foreign Office had been forced for the first time to confirm that a phone conversation between Cameron and Khan took place in response to a Freedom of Information request filed by Unredacted, a research unit based at the University of Westminster.

Unredacted asked which ministers or officials were present on the call to Khan. In response, the Foreign Office said: “The then Foreign Secretary, David Cameron, was the only person present on the call on 23 April 2024 with Karim Khan.”

But according to numerous sources with knowledge of the matter, including former staff in the prosecutor’s office, Cameron’s special assistant, Baroness Liz Sugg, was also present on the call.

When MEE put this to the foreign office, it declined to comment and pointed MEE to Cameron, who sits as a Conservative peer in the House of Lords.