- The Metropolitan Police are reviewing CCTV footage after the phone of Sir Keir Starmer's former chief of staff, Morgan McSweeney, was stolen in Pimlico.
- The loss of Mr McSweeney's phone means crucial messages relating to Lord Peter Mandelson's appointment as US ambassador will not be publicly disclosed.
- MPs had previously voted to force the publication of documents to investigate Lord Mandelson's links to Jeffrey Epstein before he was given the Washington role.
- Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch has called the phone theft "fishy," but Sir Keir Starmer dismissed any connection to the Mandelson files as "far-fetched."
- Lord Mandelson will be asked to provide messages from his personal phone as part of the ongoing disclosure of files concerning his controversial ambassadorial appointment.
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