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He said, look, it would have been incredibly awkward for UK-US relations because the thing had been done.

It was a fait accompli.

This looks quite ugly.

And there is a beautiful irony.

that Keir Starmer,

might in the end be brought down, not by Peter Mandelson, but about the attempt to appoint Matthew Doyle.

Because at this point, it's like a pattern, right?

But this is the trouble, that I think the public is generous up to a point about something that looks like a genuine mistake.

When it looks like a pattern of behaviour, when it looks like cushy jobs, when it looks like, let's see what we can get away with now and please don't tell...

you know, my colleague David Lammy, then it starts looking really grubby.

And I think that's where people just lose faith.

I should say we haven't had a response to the Doyle claims yet from number 10.

And we're pretty keen to hear.

what they tell us.

We have heard on some of the other claims that, and this is in response to whether officials in the office have been nagged or cajoled or bullied by Morgan McSweeney, they say no.

This is their words.

As I said earlier, there's a distinction clearly between asking reasonably for updates on the appointment process.

I would draw a distinction between the idea of pressure and, you know, being kept informed about the process and the progress of the appointment.

So they will push back on the idea of the context that Ollie Robbins has just... We just wanted updates.

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