Paul Holden

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Pod Save the UK · McSweeney: the man who made Starmer and his ties to Mandelson · 12 Feb 2026 podcast

regenerating is if there's a fundamental break, a really deep and fundamental break with this political project.

And the sad reality is, is I think this political project is not allowing that break to emerge by doing things like blocking Andy Burnham.

Because what you actually need is you need a leader

who just didn't get involved in this factual stuff, which just made the party utterly dysfunctional.

If you had an Andy Burnham figure like that, they could, I think, quite realistically, unite some of the party, bring it back together, bring its warring factions back together, build a progressive coalition that can somehow hold together a soft left, even a far left, with a centrist tendency as well.

Can I maybe actually make a suggestion for you guys?

Instead of saying consorting with a known paedophile, can you maybe replace what Zahra Sultana's phrasing in Parliament, which is being besties with the world's most famous nonce?

She does have a way with words, right?

Not necessarily running a political party.

They knew.

I'm sorry, they knew.

So the thing that strikes me is about this whole appointment process.

There's so much that we already knew by the time Mandelson was appointed.

I mean, first of all, this guy's called the Prince of Goddamn Darkness, for God's sake.

It's in the name.

Was he really?

Yeah.

Oh, right.

Apparently, that was by mistake.

Anyway.

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