Scotcast – Mandelson, Starmer and Sarwar: what occurs subsequent? – BBC Sounds – Worldwide Dispatch

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Will Sir Keir Starmer survive the Peter Mandelson scandal? Effectively that was a query for Anas Sarwar as we speak – and the Scottish Labour chief didn’t precisely give the Prime Minister an emphatic defence.

However how did it get to this? Why has Peter Mandelson been so central to Labour politics for thus lengthy, what affect has he had in Scotland and what is going to turn out to be of Starmer’s authorities?

Martin Geissler and Natalie Higgins converse to Simon Pia – a Labour advisor in the course of the Gordon Brown years, who had a entrance row seat in authorities on the time Peter Mandelson was sending info to his good friend, the disgraced paedophile, Jeffrey Epstein.

Scotcast is the BBC’s Scottish information podcast. This episode is hosted by Martin Geissler and Natalie Higgins.

Get in contact: scotcast@bbc.co.uk

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