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Just realised how stupid my last comment was. The permissions on ~/.emacs.d/elpa/gnupg were wrong. I've fixed them and the issue persists. Update above.
drwxr-xr-x 8 xxx xxx 4096 Sep 8 11:15 .emacs.d I couldn't figure out why this warning appeared either, I don't think I've ever touched the permissions.