Everything That Went Wrong for Starmer This Week
February 12, 2026
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as posted by the channelPrime Minister Keir Starmer’s cabinet circles the wagons as he survives another hellish week in office. One that saw the loss of his chief of staff, Morgan McSweeney, and his director of communications, Tim Allan, as the scandal over Peter Mandelson's ties to sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein rages on.
Nish and Coco are joined by Paul Holden, the “unofficial biographer” of Morgan McSweeney, to discuss his key role in the rise of Keir Starmer to power and his close relationship with Mandelson. Plus - reports that Labour Together hired a PR firm to investigate Paul and others looking into its funding under McSweeney.
Also, comedian Stuart Goldsmith on the serious business of being funny about climate change and why it goes all the way to the top of British intelligence.
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Paul Holden, Investigative Journalist and author of The Fraud
Stuart Goldsmith, Climate Comedian
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The Fraud: Keir Starmer, Morgan McSweeney, and the Crisis of British Democracy
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