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Pressure continued to build on Keir Starmer to remove his chief of staff Morgan McSweeneyDowning Street has defied calls to remove Keir Starmer’s most senior aide, insisting Morgan McSweeney retains the prime minister’s confidence, as frustration grows over a wait for documents on Peter...
<p>Pressure continued to build on Keir Starmer to remove his chief of staff Morgan McSweeney</p><p>Downing Street has defied calls to remove <strong>Keir Starmer</strong>’s most senior aide, insisting <strong><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/feb/05/no-10-defies-calls-to-sack-morgan-mcsweeney-over-mandelson-appointment">Morgan McSweeney</a></strong><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/feb/05/no-10-defies-calls-to-sack-morgan-mcsweeney-over-mandelson-appointment"> retains the prime minister</a>’s confidence, as frustration grows over a wait for documents on <strong>Peter Mandelson</strong>, which some fear could last for weeks.</p><p>Amid warnings from <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/labour">Labour</a> backbenchers that McSweeney’s survival would leave Starmer’s position “untenable”, Starmer apologised to victims of <strong>Jeffrey Epstein</strong> for appointing Mandelson, a close friend of the convicted child sex offender, as US ambassador.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2026/feb/06/labour-party-keir-starmer-peter-mandelson-morgan-mcsweeney-live-news-latest-updates">Continue reading...</a>
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