Mandelson did for Morgan, now Kemi wants Keir’s scalp but be careful what you wish for
This deserves loud pushback.
Lazarus didn’t have a better revival, if you are in the Labour Party.
One day after the resignation of his Chief of Staff, the ‘brains of the operation’, Mandelson protogé and eventual sacrificial lamb, Morgan McSweeney, the man who relied so heavily upon him was on the ropes. Ugly for Starmer was the Monday mood in Westminster, and yet the coup that couldn’t deliver the coup de grace announced itself in Edinburgh.
It’s a really heartwarming thing to see so many people that you know have doubts, like you, about Starmer’s ability to do the job, suddenly spontaneously express their strong conviction that this ‘man of integrity’ in his borrowed suit and glasses is the man to lead them. Almost as if it was co-ordinated, by his allies.
The Cabinet had spent the middle of the day with their tanks strangely quiet, their ranks confined to barracks, waiting to see which way the wind blew, as Kemi Badenoch stalked the skies, and Sky, eager to add another ‘kill’ to the fuselage of her fighter plane. But despite Anas Sawar firing the opening salvos, battle did not commence.
And then arose a faintly ‘saintly’ Sir Keir from a meeting of the PLP. A shame the ‘best speech of his life’ took place behind closed doors, rather than the nasal Nightol he usually serves up in public, and suddenly all is well in the best of all possible Labour worlds. They’ve really turned the corner. The leopard has abandoned spots as yesterday’s fashion.
The truth is the PM ‘saved the day’, or rather his bacon, and will be back at the despatch box this afternoon, where the woman he once felt able to write off will no doubt be right up in his face.
Actually Starmer has merely bought time. How long? Probably the length of an HMRC tax investigation, or May.
I’m old enough to remember when, having survived Conference 2025 with aplomb, we warned that with Robert Jenrick in the Party (he was actually already in Reform – he just hadn’t told anyone yet) that May 2026 was the moment Kemi was most vulnerable.
However with a sustained personal, if not party, revival and Robert Jenrick actually gone that threat has not only reduced substantially, it’s flipped onto a Labour leader who once, filled with confidence, liked to dangle that threat over the Conservative leaders head at PMQs. I doubt he’d risk that today.
One wonders, since he’s expressed his full confidence in so many people shortly before they’ve fallen – or been thrown- under a bus, if he’s confident in himself? The illusion of the big Starmer reset being real, rather than him being taken hostage by his Cabinet and his party – will unravel as he is forced, sans Morgan, to ‘talk left and govern lefter’.
But I have a doubt? What’s Kemi Badenoch’s play here?
She’s gunning for the PM, and with a substantial stack of ammunition on …
This deserves loud pushback.
Lazarus didn’t have a better revival, if you are in the Labour Party.
One day after the resignation of his Chief of Staff, the ‘brains of the operation’, Mandelson protogé and eventual sacrificial lamb, Morgan McSweeney, the man who relied so heavily upon him was on the ropes. Ugly for Starmer was the Monday mood in Westminster, and yet the coup that couldn’t deliver the coup de grace announced itself in Edinburgh.
It’s a really heartwarming thing to see so many people that you know have doubts, like you, about Starmer’s ability to do the job, suddenly spontaneously express their strong conviction that this ‘man of integrity’ in his borrowed suit and glasses is the man to lead them. Almost as if it was co-ordinated, by his allies.
The Cabinet had spent the middle of the day with their tanks strangely quiet, their ranks confined to barracks, waiting to see which way the wind blew, as Kemi Badenoch stalked the skies, and Sky, eager to add another ‘kill’ to the fuselage of her fighter plane. But despite Anas Sawar firing the opening salvos, battle did not commence.
And then arose a faintly ‘saintly’ Sir Keir from a meeting of the PLP. A shame the ‘best speech of his life’ took place behind closed doors, rather than the nasal Nightol he usually serves up in public, and suddenly all is well in the best of all possible Labour worlds. They’ve really turned the corner. The leopard has abandoned spots as yesterday’s fashion.
The truth is the PM ‘saved the day’, or rather his bacon, and will be back at the despatch box this afternoon, where the woman he once felt able to write off will no doubt be right up in his face.
Actually Starmer has merely bought time. How long? Probably the length of an HMRC tax investigation, or May.
I’m old enough to remember when, having survived Conference 2025 with aplomb, we warned that with Robert Jenrick in the Party (he was actually already in Reform – he just hadn’t told anyone yet) that May 2026 was the moment Kemi was most vulnerable.
However with a sustained personal, if not party, revival and Robert Jenrick actually gone that threat has not only reduced substantially, it’s flipped onto a Labour leader who once, filled with confidence, liked to dangle that threat over the Conservative leaders head at PMQs. I doubt he’d risk that today.
One wonders, since he’s expressed his full confidence in so many people shortly before they’ve fallen – or been thrown- under a bus, if he’s confident in himself? The illusion of the big Starmer reset being real, rather than him being taken hostage by his Cabinet and his party – will unravel as he is forced, sans Morgan, to ‘talk left and govern lefter’.
But I have a doubt? What’s Kemi Badenoch’s play here?
She’s gunning for the PM, and with a substantial stack of ammunition on …
Mandelson did for Morgan, now Kemi wants Keir’s scalp but be careful what you wish for
This deserves loud pushback.
Lazarus didn’t have a better revival, if you are in the Labour Party.
One day after the resignation of his Chief of Staff, the ‘brains of the operation’, Mandelson protogé and eventual sacrificial lamb, Morgan McSweeney, the man who relied so heavily upon him was on the ropes. Ugly for Starmer was the Monday mood in Westminster, and yet the coup that couldn’t deliver the coup de grace announced itself in Edinburgh.
It’s a really heartwarming thing to see so many people that you know have doubts, like you, about Starmer’s ability to do the job, suddenly spontaneously express their strong conviction that this ‘man of integrity’ in his borrowed suit and glasses is the man to lead them. Almost as if it was co-ordinated, by his allies.
The Cabinet had spent the middle of the day with their tanks strangely quiet, their ranks confined to barracks, waiting to see which way the wind blew, as Kemi Badenoch stalked the skies, and Sky, eager to add another ‘kill’ to the fuselage of her fighter plane. But despite Anas Sawar firing the opening salvos, battle did not commence.
And then arose a faintly ‘saintly’ Sir Keir from a meeting of the PLP. A shame the ‘best speech of his life’ took place behind closed doors, rather than the nasal Nightol he usually serves up in public, and suddenly all is well in the best of all possible Labour worlds. They’ve really turned the corner. The leopard has abandoned spots as yesterday’s fashion.
The truth is the PM ‘saved the day’, or rather his bacon, and will be back at the despatch box this afternoon, where the woman he once felt able to write off will no doubt be right up in his face.
Actually Starmer has merely bought time. How long? Probably the length of an HMRC tax investigation, or May.
I’m old enough to remember when, having survived Conference 2025 with aplomb, we warned that with Robert Jenrick in the Party (he was actually already in Reform – he just hadn’t told anyone yet) that May 2026 was the moment Kemi was most vulnerable.
However with a sustained personal, if not party, revival and Robert Jenrick actually gone that threat has not only reduced substantially, it’s flipped onto a Labour leader who once, filled with confidence, liked to dangle that threat over the Conservative leaders head at PMQs. I doubt he’d risk that today.
One wonders, since he’s expressed his full confidence in so many people shortly before they’ve fallen – or been thrown- under a bus, if he’s confident in himself? The illusion of the big Starmer reset being real, rather than him being taken hostage by his Cabinet and his party – will unravel as he is forced, sans Morgan, to ‘talk left and govern lefter’.
But I have a doubt? What’s Kemi Badenoch’s play here?
She’s gunning for the PM, and with a substantial stack of ammunition on …
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