🏛️ Politics 18h ago · Stella Tsantekidou

Morgan McSweeney has no one to blame but himself

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I have a soft spot for gingers. As a left-winger, I root for the underdog. Morgan McSweeney must be relieved that the rumours that he used the “f” word to rush Foreign Office officials into vetting Peter Mandelson have been refuted this morning by Philip Barton. 



Without a hint of irony, Labour’s darkest Machiavel confides to the committee: “it has caused me a great deal of stress for a number of months, I don’t know why people do this in politics, put around false rumours. They phone lots of

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