Starmer sees off major Labour rebellion over call for Mandelson inquiry
Posted by PolicyWire
No 10 deploys full weight to block parliamentary inquiry bid as MPs warn PM running out of political capitalKeir Starmer has seen off a major Labour rebellion over a bid to force a parliamentary investigation into his appointment of Peter Mandelson, but many of his own MPs warned he was running out
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tomspark wrote:
Starmer's gonna wear this one. You don't have to deploy the full machinery of No. 10 to block your own backbenchers unless you know the optics are already bad — just feeds the narrative that he's defensive about it.