Labour MP calls for a ‘clearout’ of advisers in Downing Street amid Mandelson scandal - UK politics live

Pressure continued to build on Keir Starmer to remove his chief of staff Morgan McSweeneyNumber 10 clearly hoped that Starmer’s apology to Epstein’s victims on Thursday would help him regain the trust of the public and his MPs.He said yesterday that the victims of Epstein had “lived with trauma that most of us could barely comprehend”, and added: “I want to say this. I am sorry – sorry for what was done to you, sorry that so many people with power failed, sorry for having believed Mandelson’s lies and appointed him, and sorry that even now you’re forced to watch this story unfold in public once again.” Continue reading...