NB this was, I am sure, a faux pas: I don't for a second believe that this was a deliberate attempt by Shapps to erase history a la USSR. But whoever provided him that photo done messed up...
Yeah, cos it's so easy to accidently remove someone from a photo, and replace them with a synthesized background. If you flip through your own photos, I'm sure you'll be amazed at how many people are missing.
There's a wee bit Boris' right arm visible still and the underside of the plane looks odd.
It looks like something I would have produced by using a free app that removes a portion of an image and then uses the surrounding pixels to automatically replace the missing portion.
Accidentally posted or not, the erasing and saving as a new image certainly wasn’t and it’s telling that there’s a photo with Boris erased from it just one accident away from a cabinet ministers public profile. Poor Boris, sad to see.