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Oops! No 10 braced for 'excruciating' revelations as messages between Mandelson and ministers to be released - UK polit
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2026/jun/01/peter-mandelson-documents-published-keir-starmer-labour-latest-news-updatesIn his Times story about the Peter Mandelson files, Matt Dathan says the documents will show that Mandelson “contacted some of Labour’s new intake of male MPs to meet up for dinner”. Dathan says Mandelson contacted ministers he knew to get phone numbers for MPs he did not know.
Dathan also quotes a minister who has seen some of the messages about to be published as saying:
They’re going to upset a lot of people, particularly Labour members. The content is a lot of sycophancy and fawning all over Mandelson. It’s going to be very uncomfortable about how he talks about some MPs, how he would love to speak with them and have dinner with them.
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Starmer’s will soon be stammering.