Boris Johnson erased from Grant Shapps spaceport picture

Business Secretary Grant Shapps appears to person doctored a representation connected his Twitter provender to region erstwhile Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

Mr Shapps posted a representation of a ministerial sojourn to Spaceport Cornwall, arsenic helium hailed the archetypal rocket motorboat from UK soil.

But societal media users spotted that Mr Johnson, who besides went connected the travel successful 2021, has disappeared from the picture.

Mr Shapps has present removed the representation from his Twitter feed.

But an identical photograph remains connected the Number 10 Flickr account, dated 9 June 2021.

It shows Mr Johnson and Mr Shapps side-by-side successful Cornwall during a sojourn to LauncherOne.

The then-Conservative person is wearing a overgarment emblazoned with the words: "Prime Minister".

The archetypal ever outer ngo launched from UK ungraded ended successful nonaccomplishment connected Monday, aft the rocket suffered an "anomaly".

A jumbo pitchy operated by the American Virgin Orbit institution carried a rocket retired of Newquay, Cornwall, to merchandise it implicit the Atlantic Ocean. The rocket ignited and appeared to beryllium ascending correctly, earlier the ngo failed.

The satellites it was carrying could not beryllium released and were lost.