Keir Starmer was left squirming today as he faced another Commons battering over the Mandelson scandal.
Sir Keir was told to ‘take responsibility and go’ by Kemi Badenoch as he struggled to defend his actions amid mounting signs of Cabinet unrest.
The premier effectively admitted that the Foreign Office was urged to consider his former spin doctor Matthew Doyle for plum diplomatic postings, saying there were ‘often conversations about other roles’.
Extraordinarily, Sir Keir also claimed that dramatic testimony by ousted mandarin Olly Robbins yesterday had vindicated him.
The bitter clashes came with many Labour MPs in despair, after the latest flare-up in the furore dashed
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