"There's a lot of anger amongst Labour MPs, because really we want to, I mean, yesterday, I want to be talking about the cancer care plan, not about Peter Mandelson."
"He's [Starmer] got to stop blaming Mandelson and saying, 'he lied to me'. Because, actually, he should never have been considering him in the first place. To say 'he lied to me' makes it look weak and naive and gullible. So it's just completely the wrong thing."
"I mean, I know in politics, we really rely on people to sort of cover our backs, our advisors, and I think they patently haven't done this with Peter Mandelson, and I think so we need a bit of a clear out really at number 10."
Keir Starmer faces calls to sack his chief of staff Morgan McSweeney amid a scandal involving Peter Mandelson. Labour and opposition MPs have branded Starmer weak and urged adviser changes at Number 10. Baroness Harriet Harman criticised Starmer for blaming Mandelson and called the decision naive and gullible. Labour MP Simon Opher said MPs want to focus on the cancer care plan rather than the Mandelson controversy. Opher urged a clear-out of advisers at Number 10 and said McSweeney should leave.
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