John Maitlis
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 28 Apr
John Maitlis’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He was basically finding a job for his mate.
Starmer wanted to keep Mandelson at arm's length.
They'd all seen the diligence that came back in December saying, warning, warning, this guy is a risk, with their red flags waved.
He's been called before a parliamentary committee to explain whether it was him that pushed that appointment through to get Peter Mandelson the job that he longed for.
Welcome to the News Agents.
It's John.
It's Maitlis.
And today we heard from Morgan McSweeney, who was the Chief of Staff to Keir Starmer until he was fired, stroked, resigned over the Mandelson affair last year.
And you'll remember this time a week ago, we were listening to Ollie Robbins, the most senior Foreign Office civil servant who had been summarily fired from his job.
on the Thursday night that Keir Starmer discovered that Maddison hadn't in fact passed the vetting process in the way that he had understood.
Ollie Robbins essentially took the floor and pretty much threw Keir Starmer, the Prime Minister, under the bus in a way only a senior civil servant can.
And today we were listening to Emily Thornberry and her parliamentary committee interrogate Morgan McSweeney
and ask him questions as to whether essentially it had been his friendship, his loyalty to Peter Mandelson that had made him push through an old mate for a job to which he really should never have been appointed.
There's one shot of him at the back of a hall.
When Keir Starmer's making a speech, which is shown every single time.
Yeah, that really came through.
And there was some really juicy nuggets in some of the evidence that we heard today.
The case essentially being built up against Morgan McSweeney, if I can go that far, was that he was basically finding a job for his mate.
His hero.
His hero.
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