I have little interest in what Keir Starmer will say in the Commons later today. I’ve only been in political journalism for four years, and I’m already onto the fall of my fourth prime minister. The death drawls of a premiership have a familiar and tedious air; whatever Starmer says about l’affaire Mandelson, the original sin was appointing an old chum of the world’s most famous nonce as our man in Washington. The exact details of who knew what when are secondary to that mistake.

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The Prime Minister’s speech will allow for various itches to be scratched. Tory MPs who made it through Partygate will enjoy Boris Johnson’s chief inquisitor being hoist by his own petard; Labour........

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