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Cabinet Ministers Distance Themselves From Starmer Over Mandelson Scandal
Support for the prime minister appears to be draining away.
Cabinet ministers are distancing themselves from Keir Starmer as the Peter Mandelson scandal threatens to engulf his premiership.
Pat McFadden, usually seen as a Starmer loyalist, became the latest senior Labour frontbencher to question the prime minister’s judgment over the controversy.
Appearing on Times Radio, the work and pensions secretary repeatedly refused to that Olly Robbins was treated “fairly” when he was sacked by Starmer as the top civil servant in the Foreign Office last week.
Robbins paid with his job for giving Mandelson........