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Was he trying to fit around an unconventional president like Trump?

Were there mitigating reasons why it made sense?

And now it just looks like cushy jobs for the boys.

And actually, over the weekend, I was talking to somebody who was describing how just about all the junior ministerial roles, not the cabinet level ones, which were made by Starmer, but the junior ministerial ones were all, they believed, made by Morgan McSweeney.

And they described it how it was basically mates and wives of mates and husbands of mates.

And this person said it was like WAGs City Central, like the Wives and Girlfriends Committee.

In other words, what you are starting to question, right, is the very integrity of the whole decision making process around Keir Starmer, which is why?

were you just finding your mate's jobs?

Or worse, were you trying to fire people but giving them consolation prizes in some of the highest offices in the world?

Yeah, I mean, if you just rewind back to Thursday, to the brilliant Pippa Queeran and the breaking of the story in The Guardian that Peter Mandelson had failed his vetting.

I mean, honestly, there is a world in which that story was not as big as Keir Starmer made it.

Keir Starmer could have said, if he'd been over on top of the briefing, he could have said, well, I understand that UK vetting, you know, were leaning against it, but that was not a decision that they had to make.

It was one for the UK.

Foreign office.

And that was taken.

And I didn't have anything to do with that because that's the separation of powers.

He could have left it there.

The fact that he has this tantrum and fires Ollie Robbins is actually the beginning of the problems.

Right.

He could have just said, yeah, of course, there were going to be differences.