Keir Starmer is the second prime minister to take a close interest in the proceedings of a mysterious and secretive cabal, the annual Peter Mandelson Memorial Dim Sum Supper.
This is a group that has nothing to do with Lord Mandelson himself: it is a group of my friends who were dining in Chinatown on the day of his resignation from Tony Blair’s cabinet in 1998. By coincidence, we were dining there again on the day of Mandelson’s second resignation two years later.
