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In three volumes, with hundreds of emails, WhatsApps and memos, the Mandelson files handed over to parliament are one of the largest-ever government publications.

That’s a record that Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s administration would surely have preferred not to have to its name.

The documents reveal Peter Mandelson’s chatty WhatsApp messages with government ministers, including his scathing verdict on Keir Starmer – “beleaguered and bereft”.

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