Brown said Sir Keir might have been "too slow to do the right things" but backed him to "clean up the system".

Peter Mandelson ‘lied, manipulated and deceived everybody,’ said Steve Reed in a staunch defence of the prime minister and his chief of staff

Sir Keir Starmer is fighting for his political life amid mounting fury over his decision to appoint Lord Peter Mandelson as the UK's ambassador to the United States, despite being…