The PM’s failure was being a spectator as Morgan McSweeney set about finding jobs for his matesThis is the end, beautiful friend. It is the tragedy of almost all prime ministers that they are the last person to realise the...
Read MoreExclusive: McSweeney summoned by foreign affairs select committee in rare step, as Mandelson vetting row continuesUK politics live – latest updatesMorgan McSweeney, the prime minister’s former chief of staff, has...
Read MoreExclusive: McSweeney summoned by foreign affairs select committee in rare step, as Mandelson vetting row continuesUK politics live – latest updatesMorgan McSweeney, the prime minister’s former chief of staff, has...
Read MoreMPs jeered as PM said it is ‘incredible’ he was not told full story and he was wrong to appoint Mandelson as US ambassadorAt his press conference Nigel Farage was asked about reports saying that Keir Starmer knew...
Read MoreStarmer’s disastrous decision to make New Labour veteran the US ambassador has led to months of political outcryKeir Starmer is facing calls to resign after the Guardian revealed that Peter Mandelson failed the developed...
Read MoreThere has been a steady succession of departures by ministers and senior officials in the last two yearsThe exit of top civil servant Olly Robbins from the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) is the latest...
Read MorePM’s most senior civil servant now has task of rewriting civil service code and ‘making it recognised for improved productivity’ Antonia Romeo, Keir Starmer’s most senior civil servant, has been handed a...
Read MoreExchanges about US ambassador appointment may be lost after McSweeney’s phone was stolenUK politics live – latest updatesPeter Mandelson will be asked to supply messages from his personal phone as part of the...
Read MoreThe party seems to have woken up to its need for an old-style intellectual heavyweight to counter the vacuousness of recent yearsNature famously abhors a vacuum. So when Morgan McSweeney departed government, leaving a hole where...
Read MoreKeir Starmer responds after Kemi Badenoch spokesperson says she ‘raised eyebrow’ in relation to account of theftKeir Starmer has said it is “far-fetched” to suggest that the theft of his former chief of...
Read MoreThe comments were part of a broader address in which he condemned Nato alliesYesterday the Conservative party said that it wanted to ban political parties from distributing campaign literature in a foreign language. Announcing a...
Read MoreHaving painted London as a crime-ridden no-go zone, you’d have thought the Conservatives might cut McSweeney some slackIn recent years, the Conservatives and the rightwing media have gone to great lengths to tell us that...
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