If Keir Starmer had hoped that his own indignation, doubtless sincerely felt, would put distance between Downing Street and the Peter Mandelson scandal, he was mistaken.

Amid dramatic and at times chaotic scenes in the House of Commons yesterday, the Prime Minister was forced into a humiliating u-turn as opposition and Labour MPs united to strike down his preferred method of releasing government documents that will shine a light on just how thoroughly Mandelson was vetted by Starmer’s government before being appointed as our ambassador to Washington.

It’s really not that long ago........

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