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Politics Unpacked

PMQs: Starmer's Mandelson Headache

Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

News & Politics, Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Kemi Badenoch was quick off the mark to challenge the prime minister over allegations about Peter Mandelson, repeatedly asking if Starmer was aware of their close friendship and if still he had "confidence" in the US Ambassador 


Hugo Rifkind unpacks the exchanges from the Commons with Times' Chief Political Correspondent Patrick Maguire and comedian Ria Lina. 



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PMQs unpacked on Times Radio. Unpacking the politics and cutting through the crossfire. So we'll be pausing and unpacking. Can we bade enough six questions to Kirstama at PMQ's? Of course. We'll also bring you then after that the best of the rest from the back benches. Joining me for this, as always, it's the Times' chief political commentator Patrick McIgoy. Hello, Patrick. Hello, Hugo. I say as always, you weren't here last week. You missed out. No, I know I did. I'm very, very sorry. It was the most thrilling week of my adult life. I was sorry for you for not being here. Was the experiences you were having that much better? I conducted some productive business, put it that way. You had a front row seat to the demise of

1:47.4

Angela Raina? Front row, maybe lower circle. Lower circle. That's still pretty good. We were also

1:54.6

joined by Ria Lina. Ria, how have you been? I'd be good, thanks. Last week, were you watching last week?

1:59.3

It was very exciting. I did. I did.

2:05.0

Last week was very exciting to the point that this week I'm going, what could we possibly be bringing up? Yeah, well, what do you think? Where do you think she'll go? I mean, Mandelson. Yeah, see, that's what you do. It's what Patrick could do. I'm not sure it's what she'll do. Yeah, by the logic of chemo probably.

2:15.6

Well, what she'll do is she'll append it on to the beginning of her first question

2:18.3

and then join it to something to do with either immigrants or the economy and then miss both points.

2:23.5

I would think what she's going to do, Patrick, what she's going to go in on is her offer to help work with the government to bring down welfare spending.

2:31.5

And she'll do this in defiance of the way that World War

2:34.7

3 looms on two fronts and have done since she started writing those questions. And also there's

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