
PM rejects ‘far-fetched’ attempts to cast doubt on McSweeney’s account of phone theft
Keir Starmer responds after Kemi Badenoch spokesperson says she ‘raised eyebrow’ in relation to theft of aide’s phone UK politics live – latest updates Keir Starmer has said it is “far-fetched” to suggest that the theft of his former chief of staff’s mobile phone is somehow connected to a subsequent push for the release of documents relating to Peter Mandelson’s appointment as US ambassador. Downing Street has come under pressure to say whether key messages between Morgan McSweeney and the for














