Morgan McSweeney
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112 appearances
5 recordings
4 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 28 Apr
Morgan McSweeney’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Well, I mean, so many of these relationships are fractured over all of this that, you know, Peter's friends have gone to the hills and there aren't many left who are sort of standing by him right now.
And I just thought that was very interesting as well.
The extent to which, you know, there were other people.
who morgan mcswindy said he spoke to two of whom i've known for a very long time and over the 20 30 years i've known these people they've never spoken about politics gossiped they don't want to do that and those are the sort of people who stay in the shadows and so the idea that it was just peter mandelson this fengali figure of peter mandelson's own creation that was that was so important it
It's actually probably, I thought, very convincingly put, you know, dispelled by McSweeney when he said, you know, there were lots of people I spoke to.
They just didn't publicise themselves in the way that Mandelson did.
There is a mutual loathing, which is kind of, you know, it does need underlining.
There is a mutual loathing between Starmer and Mandelson.
And I think it predates Mandelson's appointment and the subsequent sacking and the subsequent grief that is caused.
that Starmer wanted to keep Mandelson at arm's length.
And Mandelson was forever trying to be part of the inner circle because, you know, that's the oxygen you breathe if you're Peter Mandelson.
You have to be part of the inner circle where decisions are being made.
And he kept on trying to ingratiate himself in that inner circle.
And his attempts were being rebuffed.
And I think that Mandelson, you know, found that very difficult and found, you know, why isn't Starmer more interested in me?
And you had Morgan McSweeney, who would facilitate...
promotion of Peter Mandelson even though you did learn from McSweeney that Keir Starmer wanted the next ambassador in Washington to be a political appointment and he wasn't going to decide who that should be until after the presidential election.
Is that everything that could go wrong has gone wrong?
But they were told along the way.
Yeah.
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