off the record

Some in government have blamed the 48-year-old adviser for being behind the briefings - and of importing a culture of off-the-record chats with journalists from opposition into Downing Street.

It's a word which comes up again and again at the moment in off-the-record conversations with ministers, government advisers and Labour MPs.

A chorus of off-the-record criticism, much of it strikingly personal, threatened to overwhelm the government.

The operator of an overdose prevention hotline told Salon, off-the-record, that the bulk of their funding comes through Medicaid, “which seems like a pretty major threat.”

The memo said that Google Chat is “off-the-record for direct and group messages” and includes “the ability to chat with external users.”