Starmer’s position is not secure into the weekend. Labour MPs continue to call for him to sack his chief of staff and ‘Starmerism’ architect Morgan McSweeney over his close relationship to Mandelson and insistence that his mentor was given the ambassador job. While many Labour MPs have confined their criticisms to a barrage of anonymous quotes to Lobby hacks, a growing number are going on the record. So far the following backbenchers have called for the McIavelli’s sacking:
If McSweeney goes, Starmer’s days will be numbered…
Speaking at his press conference on the Pride in Place programme which was obviously all about Mandelson, Starmer said:
“Tomorrow’s front pages are unlikely to be about the Pride in Place programme.”