There are a lot of embarrassed faces in Westminster this week. Many movers and shakers in politics and media, not least senior journalists and editors, had extremely close relations with the disgraced Mandelson for years. Those turning on him now enjoyed his briefings and hospitality over and over again…
Mandelson also had an extremely close relationship with under-fire Morgan McSweeney, whose enemies are now mobilising that proximity in an effort to whack him. For instance, check out this nugget planted in The Sunday Times:
“Having spent years in the political wilderness during Corbyn’s tenure as leader, Mandelson was brought back into the fold by Starmer’s chief of staff, Morgan McSweeney. The pair have struck up a close working relationship. Of McSweeney, Mandelson has said: “I don’t know who and how and when he was invented, but whoever it was … They will find their place in heaven.”
Also from the New Statesman:
“As chief of staff, McSweeney faces his greatest test yet. Can he succeed? Peter Mandelson praises McSweeney for his “brainpower, political depth, strategic thinking and courage”. He will, the former cabinet minister told me, “bring what is badly needed: a sense of project, political definition and scrupulous attention to good people, good policy and good presentation”.”
So few questioned it. An endorsement McSweeney will be regretting…
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