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Sir Keir Starmer’s ex-communications chief should be stripped of his peerage over his ties to a paedophile councillor, Labour’s chairwoman has said. Anna Turley MP told Sky News “there’s no place […] in the Lords” for people like Matthew Doyle, who she suggested hadn’t been truthful before being elevated to parliament’s upper chamber earlier this…
Lord Mandelson would have been subject to a “thorough” and “intimate” vetting process before he was appointed UK ambassador to the US, a former head of MI6 has said. Sir Richard Moore, who left his post last September, told Sky News’ lead world news presenter Yalda Hakim he had not been part of the process,…
Sir Keir Starmer will chair a cabinet session today after earning a lifeline from Labour MPs during a crunch meeting in which he declared: “I’m not prepared to walk away.” The prime minister started the week battling the biggest crisis of his premiership amid the fallout from his appointment of Lord Mandelson as his US…
With a prime minister under extreme fire and unable to command a majority in the Commons on matters of personal authority, is politics too self-absorbed to fix a problem as broken as the system for special educational needs provision? Plans to reform the 12-year-old approach to SEND are expected to be announced within weeks –…
Parliament’s corridors are awash with rumours of Sir Keir Starmer being replaced after a torrid few days. Morgan McSweeney stepped down on 8 February after several Labour MPs publicly blamed him for the appointment of Lord Mandelson as ambassador to the US. Lord Mandelson was sacked from that position in September over his links to…
Sir Keir Starmer is fighting for his political survival as calls for him to step down grow, after the resignation of his top aide over the Peter Mandelson scandal. The embattled prime minister is expected to face the Parliamentary Labour Party today amid anger over his appointment of Lord Mandelson as ambassador to the US,…
In the end, the PM had little option. Faced with an escalating crisis and ever-louder calls from his MPs that someone had to take responsibility for the Mandelson scandal, the PM’s chief of staff, Morgan McSweeney, is gone. Politics latest: Starmer reacts as chief of staff Morgan McSweeney resigns It will be a bitter blow…
Morgan McSweeney was blamed by many Labour MPs for the disastrous decision to appoint Peter Mandelson as US ambassador. There has been a growing clamour from the backbenches for the chief of staff to fall on his sword and take the hit for his boss. As the architect of Labour’s election win in July 2024,…
A payment given to Lord Peter Mandelson when he was sacked as ambassador to the US is being reviewed after the latest revelations in the Epstein files. The peer lost his role in September last year over his relationship with paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein, just seven months into the job. However, anger in Westminster has…
Peter Mandelson committed a “betrayal of his country” by allegedly leaking government secrets to Jeffrey Epstein and putting Britain “at risk”, former prime minister Gordon Brown has said. Lord Mandelson, his ex-business secretary, has been accused of sharing market-sensitive information with the US sex offender after the 2008 global financial crisis. Mr Brown has since…