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Labour MPs say Mandelson scandal is awful for Starmer — and self-inflicted
Documents relating to the appointment of the former US ambassador may not contain a smoking gun but the PM’s judgment is under fire from all sides
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Starmer has angered Trump — but Labour MPs, for once, are on his side
The thin-skinned US president could punish the UK for refusing to let him use British military bases. But standing up to Trump has proved popular at home
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Labour MPs’ verdict on Mandelson is worse than anything Tories could inflict
Arrest of former US ambassador and New Labour giant may not directly implicate the prime minister, but colleagues say his reputation is shot
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Labour’s elections U-turn could cost it more than the £100,000 legal bill
Dozens of councils now have just weeks to prepare for local elections. One of the party’s MPs called the backtrack ‘a total own goal’
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Starmer has clung on. But a reckoning could be weeks away
Labour MPs have closed ranks around the prime minister, while the lack of an obvious successor has bought him some time before the Gorton by-election
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Mandelson is still Starmer’s problem — and Labour MPs know it
The prime minister and his team can’t escape the fact they chose a US ambassador whose links to Jeffrey Epstein were far from secret
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As the Tories lose MPs, Badenoch reckons she can beat Farage at his own game
The Conservative leader has given short shrift to a trio of big names leaving her party for Reform UK. Will her strategy work?
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Labour MPs back Starmer on Greenland, but that won’t help him win votes
It’s tricky to shore up domestic support when global politics dominates the agenda — and May’s local elections are edging closer
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Netting Zahawi is a coup for Reform, but the party faces a new dilemma
As Nigel Farage’s party grows, it increasingly resembles the establishment it claims to want to replace
