What is the point of Keir Starmer’s government now? Morgan McSweeney’s departure may have been an attempt by the Prime Minister to buy some extra time, like a patient bargaining for expensive life-extending drugs, but it doesn’t change the diagnosis: this is a government that no longer works.

Ministers who had previously been very loyal to Keir Starmer had been privately saying it was only a matter of time that he went a couple of months before the latest revelations about Peter Mandelson’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. But even before that scandal first blew up in the autumn, MPs and some ministers had started to lose hope, having already stopped trusting........

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