Is Keir Starmer really Morgan McSweeney’s puppet?

Get In: The Inside Story of Labour Under Starmer Patrick Maguire and Gabriel Pogrund

Bodley Head, pp.470, 25

Every government has its éminence grise. The quiet, ruthless man (or occasional woman) operates in the shadows, only to be eventually outed when the boys and girls in the backroom fall out among themselves or when someone pens a memoir. Think Peter Mandelson, Nick Timothy, Fiona Hill and Dominic Cummings.

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TaggedJeremy Corbyn, Jeremy Hunt, Journalism, Keir Starmer, Labour politics, Morgan McSweeney, National Insurance, political biography, Rachel Revves, the irishman

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Is Keir Starmer really Morgan McSweeney’s puppet?

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