Cabinet ministers have turned on each other over the release of messages relating to Lord Mandelson’s appointment as UK ambassador to the US, The i Paper can reveal.
The second tranche of the so-called Mandelson files contains hundreds of private Whatsapp messages and email exchanges between the peer and current and former Cabinet ministers, senior civil servants and advisors.
However, there were strikingly few exchanges published between Mandelson and a number of senior Cabinet figures, including Sir Keir Starmer and Chancellor Rachel Reeves, which has breeded resentment in the Prime Minister’s top team.
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The disparity has angered some in Cabinet who fear they have been exposed to far greater scrutiny than some other colleagues.
