Government Scramble To ‘Cover Their Backs’ On Mandelson Blame
April 20, 2026
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as posted by the channel“There’s absolutely no winners.”
Starmer was warned that Mandelson had “more red flags than you would expect in a normal appointment”, says senior fellow at the Institute for Government and former civil servant Dr Jill Rutter.
Dr Jill Rutter was speaking to Stephen Sackur on The Times at One. Listen live every Monday-Thursday from 1pm.
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