The government is trying to get ahead of the Mandelson story before it engulfs Team Starmer. No doubt thanks to the traumatic events of the last time…
Labour has arranged for ‘Chief Secretary to the PM’ Darren Jones to provide a ministerial statement in the Commons after Starmer’s China trip update. This is for two reasons: 1) so Starmer doesn’t have to answer questions on Mandelson in the Commons during his own statement and 2) to try to push the onus around Mandelson’s peerage onto the House of Lords…
Starmer’s team is arguing that they can’t strip Mandelson of his peerage (they can) and that arcane Lords reforms should be pursued to the same end. This is not true – Starmer need only pursue primary legislation and ask his MPs to vote to remove Peter Mandelson from the Lords, which he does not want to do…
Downing Street has launched a probe by the Cabinet Secretary into the affair. This latest Mandelson blow up has implications for Starmer’s operation. More of that in Guido’s Labour Wars column later today…
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