Keir Starmer ‘needs a miracle’ to stay on as prime minister, says Labour MP amid Mandelson scandal – UK politics live

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A thinktank previously run by a Labour minister and the prime minister’s chief of staff is alleged to have paid a PR firm to investigate journalists who were looking into its funding.

Labour Together, once run by Morgan McSweeney and then by Josh Simons, now a Cabinet Office minister, hired APCO Worldwide to investigate journalists from the Guardian, the Sunday Times and other outlets and to identify their sources, according to claims in the Substack publication Democracy for Sale.

I’m sure he is angry because I’d be angry if I was him. However, he should have listened to the people who were flagging up that this was a catastrophic appointment.

And he didn’t. And that’s why we are here today.

What he’s enabled by putting Mandelson in that job… and that may come out, we don’t know what he’s done while he’s been in there.

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Source: www.theguardian.com

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