If Starmer holds onto his powerful chief of staff, Morgan McSweeney, who persuaded him to appoint Mandelson as part of a praetorian guard to support a wavering and over-stretched PM, he may find himself, once again, using up valuable capital on defending colleagues in a mess when the country is tiring of this multi-part office drama. At the moment, McSweeney, fairly or otherwise, is taking most of the blame for being heedless about potential risks of crowning Mandelson as head of the UK’s most important mission.
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