(((Dan Hodges))) @DPJHodges · 50s That press conference has made things incalculably worse for Starmer. He could - just - try and defend the line he believed Mandelson when he said he cut off the rel… (View Post)

Probably needs a group from the Cabinet to go into his office his afternoon and tell him the game is up. He no longer sounds like he believes any of this himself now. Sad but it is the end. (View Post)

Journos now getting to ask questions. None will be about 'pride in place' whatever that was all about. (View Post)

(((Dan Hodges))) @DPJHodges · 21s Not sure if I misheard. But Starmer seems to be claiming Mandelson told him he “barely knew” Epstein. Which he then believed. I cannot comprehend how he thinks that … (View Post)

(((Dan Hodges))) @DPJHodges · 3m Keir Starmer, staggeringly, says he had no reason to disbelieve Mandelson when he told him he barely knew Epstein. That is simply not credible. https://x.com/DPJHodge… (View Post)