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Let me bring you some breaking news now.

Morgan McSweeney, Downing Street, Chief of Staff, has just resigned.

There's been another major departure from Downing Street, Chief of Staff, has just resigned. There's been another major departure from Downing Street, the Executive Director of Communications,

Tim Allen, has quit.

That's why the distraction needs to end and the leadership in Downing Street has to change.

A day of extreme jeopardy for Secure Stama

over the scandal surrounding Peter Mandelson

and his links with Jeffrey Epstein

is ending tonight with his cabinet rallying round him

and his backbench MPs applauding him

after he appealed to them for support.

To a point one pedophile supporter

cannot be excused as misfortune.

To point two shows a catastrophic lack of judgment.

Mr. Speaker, if I've just listened to the Prime Minister correctly,

he's essentially rolled the same pitch in relation to Matthew Doyle as he did with Peter Mandelson,

that they weren't clear with him. He appears to be the

most gullible former director of public prosecutions in history. The Prime Minister is the architect

of his own misfortunes, and all of the chaos and instability we're seeing is completely self-inflicted.

This is a Labour psychodrama right now.

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