Dismissed aide alleges Downing Street pressured to exonerate Mandelson

A cloak over Downing Street: how a high-profile envoy appointment turned into a crisis of trust There is a particular kind of silence inside corridors that know they have been hurried. It’s the hush of civil servants who once moved at the deliberate pace of statecraft but who, for weeks, found themselves being pulled along […]

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