Cabinet Ministers have begun to scrub their X profiles of any mention of Peter Mandelson. It won’t be that easy to edit out their association Prince of Darkness…
Darren Jones – who was put up in the Commons yesterday afternoon to claim that primary legislation is not the route to strip Mandelson of his peerage – has overnight deleted a very old X post from 2009 in which he celebrates Mandelson’s performance on the Labour Party Conference stage:
The post was still live as of yesterday. Expect to find no mention of Mandelson on any minister’s X by close of business today. Harder to accomplish with Department of Justice releases, eh…
A Tory source tells Guido: “The PM’s Chief Secretary is trying to erase his professed love for the ‘best pal’ of a convicted paedo. With Pat McFadden and David Lammy junior ministers under Mandelson when he was taking Epstein’s dirty money and dishing out state secrets, this scandal goes right to the heart of Starmer’s government.” McSweeney and Starmer protected him for as long as they could…
UPDATE: Wes Streeting is now doing the same.
Green Deputy Leader Rachel Millward said:
“The reality is that it’s Zack Polanski who brought the nation, Andy Burnham. And if we hadn’t had the success of the Green Party in this last year since Zack’s been leading, which has been unprecedented, phenomenal success and a growth from about 60,000 members to 230,000, if we hadn’t had that much pressure on Labour, then we’d probably still be in the Starmer regime, which was pretty much ushering in a Reform government with its lurch to the right. So actually, what we’re seeing now is that we’ve set the political agenda and the government is picking that up.”
