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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And that's why I think this is so difficult for Keir Starmer right now.
There's a Commons debate on whether this whole matter should be referred to the Privileges Committee, the same committee that did for Boris Johnson when Harriet Harman was the chair of that committee.
And you've got Labour now kind of whipping and saying,
You mustn't support this.
We mustn't have this go to a privileges committee.
The fact that Starmer is in this position is pretty much largely of Starmer's making of the terrible judgments that were made in that period in November, December, January.
We've got to get him out to Washington in time for inauguration.
And it's got to be Mandelson.
You know what, John?
I agree with that, although.
Which is, I think, that really sticks in the craw of British public opinion.
And I was contacted, funnily enough, over the weekend by Luke Trill, who'd been doing focus groups and saying this is, you know, what we'd said on the podcast at the end of last week was exactly what was being said to him in focus groups, which is...
You just sacrificed a decent bloke, Ollie Robbins, to save your own bloody skin.
And that was... Somehow, I think that is so ugly.
When Ollie Robbins was trying to do his best in frigging difficult circumstances, when there was pressure from Number 10 just to get this done and to have Mandelson appointed.
And we heard in the committee today there was no plan B if Mandelson had not been approved.
And so you think...
Keir Starmer's willingness to sacrifice somebody else so that they can take the rap for his decision making and his flawed judgment, I think is what people think.
Well, in a moment, we will be putting all this to Tom Baldwin, biographer of Sir Keir Starmer and friend too.
We're firing if it's not nailing it.
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