Its A Cool Kinda Feeling

It sounds like McSweeney and Starmer have been discussing his future for several days We hear there was a call on Friday and a succession of calls on Saturday. The final call - and with it the decision for McSweeney to go - was on Sunday lunchtime It was partly McSweeney taking responsibility for the advice he gave over Mandelson, as he set out in his letter But there is also said to be concern about what is to come in the Mandelson files given the peer's closer relationship with McSweeney It's a point worth reiterating - that however bad the past week has been, there is much worse to come The Cabinet Office due diligence file, the welter of private Whatsapp messages between Mandelson and ministers, a huge volume of correspondence that went to Mandelson while he was in Washington The view in No 10 is that McSweeney had no choice but to go. That the pressure was overwhelming He was said to have been as downbeat as people have ever been over the past week But at the same time it leaves Starmer without the man who helped remake Labour by his side, the force behind his entire political project And as some McSweeney allies are pointing out tonight, if he had to go because of the advice he gave, where does that leave the man who made the decision?

I didn't go to Harvard. I went down the pit with my dad. That's where I learnt what real people in the real world expect from their politicians. There you go, answered it for you.