From The Times and The Sunday Times, this is the story.
I'm Manvin Rana.
It's been a frenetic week in Westminster, and it's only Monday.
We are now in the terminal phase of Kirsten Armour's Premiership.
And he's in a situation where he's either going to survive and be very,
very weakened going forward, or he's going to have to go.
This is a full blown crisis in Downing Street.
The Prime Minister's position is in peril.
But how did we get here?
When the new Epstein files dropped just over a week ago,
revealing the shocking extent of the relationship between Peter Mandelson and the convicted child sex offender,
the government.
was left reeling.
The UK Prime Minister has come under extreme pressure about what he knew about Lord Mandelson's connections to Jeffrey Epstein when he appointed him
as US ambassador.
By Wednesday, at Prime Minister's Questions,
Keir Starmer was loyally and publicly standing by his Chief of Staff,
Morgan McSweeney, a close friend of Peter Mandelson's who'd pushed for him to get the job.
Prime Minister McSweeney is an essential part of my team.
He helped me change the Labour Party and win an election.