Pat McFadden told Peter Mandelson in May last year: "Every meeting I have is ‘who can we tax in order to pay benefits to others’."

Pat McFadden told Peter Mandelson in May last year: "Every meeting I have is ‘who can we tax in order to pay benefits to others’."

In a damning assessment of his own government, Sir Keir Starmer's former Cabinet enforcer Pat McFadden said it was asking the 'wrong questions'.