The fallout from the Prime Minister’s decision to appoint Peter Mandelson as US Ambassador seems to be never-ending, but it’s far from his only controversial hire.
In this episode of The Independent’s In The Room, former Deputy Cabinet Secretary Helen MacNamara and ex-No. 10 special advisor Cleo Watson analyse Downing Street's hiring-and-firing crisis. How did Mandelson and Matthew Doyle (Starmer’s former Director of Communications) fly so under the radar? And why on earth is the Minister for Inquiries now the subject of an inquiry?
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