Keir Starmer is facing more Commons misery over the Mandelson scandal today as doubts rise over whether he can cling on.
Sir Keir will brave PMQs amid signs support is ebbing away, with Cabinet dissent surfacing publicly following damning testimony from the Foreign Office mandarin he sacked.
In the latest hint at trouble, Work and Pensions Secretary Pat McFadden repeatedly refused to say the ousting of Olly Robbins was ‘fair’ during interviews this morning. Instead he said it had been the ‘PM’s judgement’.
Many despairing Labour MPs believe it is now a question of ‘when, not if’ Sir Keir goes, after the latest
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