Amid a flurry of highly hostile briefings in SW1 Guido hears the Blairite cabal, brought into No10 in a drip since Starmer came to power, is turning against Downing Street Chief of Staff Morgan McSweeney. The architect of Starmerism, whatever that is…
Alongside the more standard complaints from Cabinet ministers’ SpAds about McSweeney, Guido hears Communications Director Tim Allan and National Security Adviser Jonathan Powell have joined the bandwagon of Morgan-sceptics. Allan already tried to point the finger at McSweeney over the Mandelson disaster…
There is an increasing number of Blairite old hands entering government. The ‘great replacement theory,’ anyone?
One Downing Street source tells Guido there McSweeney is in increasing trouble this morning: “It’s time.” Not that the McIavelli hasn’t weathered storms before…
Many in Labour still believe a Morgan exit would be cataclysmic for Starmer. Nonetheless a government source says the Streeting affair is blamed for “weakening the PM two weeks out from a Budget that was already going to be damaging.” Starmer’s phases are more like sneezes…
