Starmer’s Authority Under Strain as Mandelson Scandal Grows | Caroline Wheeler
February 7, 2026
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as posted by the channel“I think we are now seeing a meltdown in slow motion.”
The fallout from Mandelson scandal has exposed a deep leadership crisis for Keir Starmer that even loyal Labour MPs now see as increasingly untenable, says The Sunday Times’s political editor Caroline Wheeler.
Caroline Wheeler was speaking to Rod Liddle on Times Radio. Listen live every Saturday from 10am-1pm.
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