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Mike Pearse: UK correspondent on Keir Starmer's chief of staff quitting · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Another developments and the Epstein saga and Mandelssohn over in
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  Speaker 1: the UK, McSweeney, this is a Starmer's chief of staff
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  Speaker 1: has resigned, joining us as Mike Pierce, our UK europe
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  Speaker 1: correspondent Mike the latest.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, indeed, and this is going to be for secure Starmer.
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  Speaker 2: He's facing the most challenging week of his leadership so far.
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  Speaker 2: There are calls for his resignation, a possible vote of
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  Speaker 2: no confidence also coming as well. Now, all this follows
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  Speaker 2: the admission that he gave Lord mandels from the job
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  Speaker 2: of UK Ambassador to the United States. That was in
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  Speaker 2: spite of knowing that he had a relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.
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  Speaker 2: Now in that breaking news in the last couple of hours,
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  Speaker 2: morgam at Sweeney is his name, He's Starmer's chief of
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  Speaker 2: staff has resigned. He's an affect his right hand man.
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  Speaker 2: He says he takes full responsibility for advising the Prime
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  Speaker 2: minist to appoint Mandelssohn as a US ambassador last year,
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  Speaker 2: a decision he now says is wrong. He says it's
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  Speaker 2: damaged the ruling Labour party, the country and trust in politics.
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  Speaker 2: The story here is exploding. I can tell you now
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  Speaker 2: it comes as a new poul Reville. Starmer has the
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  Speaker 2: support of fewer than one in five people in the country. Now,
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  Speaker 2: even some of his own MP's are now saying it's
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  Speaker 2: only a matter of time before he pays the price.
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  Speaker 1: Now Rainer, who was former deputy now beckbing to she's
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  Speaker 1: sort of saying I didn't think Mandelson was a good idea,
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  Speaker 1: and Lemmy also saying that as well. So do you
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  Speaker 1: think Starmer's day is a number or Kenny survived something
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  Speaker 1: like this by dumping McSweeney.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know, we've got a whole load of documents.
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  Speaker 2: Last week the government has said it would release a
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  Speaker 2: whole load of documents that would sort of say one
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  Speaker 2: more or the other, who said what and whatever. I
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  Speaker 2: think the real challenge at the moment is there's not
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  Speaker 2: another leader in waiting. That will be quite a long process,
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  Speaker 2: but you know, we do expect that potentially there will
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  Speaker 2: be a challenge. This is Dorr's just not going to
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  Speaker 2: go away. It's in the news. Mandelsson's home was sort
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  Speaker 2: of raided on Friday last week with big boxes taken away.
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  Speaker 2: This story is so big here that there is some
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  Speaker 2: doubt as to just how long Starmer can stay. And
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  Speaker 2: if the opposition parties call a vod of no confidence,
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  Speaker 2: would some of the Labor MPs actually vote with it
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  Speaker 2: because some of them actually have come out, you know,
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  Speaker 2: both privately and public to say that they don't think
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  Speaker 2: Starmer's really is doing a great job here. So it's
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  Speaker 2: a bit of a wait and see. But you can't
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  Speaker 2: rule anything up.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Mike. We've covered the good of the Olympics
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  Speaker 1: this morning earlier on but you've got the bear in
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  Speaker 1: the agli.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm afraid. There have been some ugly scenes as
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  Speaker 2: riot police clashed with demonstrators. Police use tear gas and
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  Speaker 2: water can in Milan to end that protest. A number
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  Speaker 2: of arrest were made. Now. It came as around ten
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  Speaker 2: thousand people protested overclaims the games were damaging the environment
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  Speaker 2: and concerns over the cost of living. Some released fireworks
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  Speaker 2: and through stones at police as well. Meanwhile, officials are
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  Speaker 2: basically investigating sabotage on Italy's railway network, halting key lines.
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  Speaker 2: Now this led to people unable to get to the
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  Speaker 2: games on time. Cables would cut. An investigation into that
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  Speaker 2: is underway and in another development, get another appeal to
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  Speaker 2: stop spectators booing the American athletes has been made for
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  Speaker 2: a second time. The appeal was ignored at the opening ceremony.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think we quite heard it because of the
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  Speaker 2: microphones being close up to the action, but they did
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  Speaker 2: definitely did happen. Of course, that's over the use of
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  Speaker 2: ice immigration officers sent over to help to protect those
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  Speaker 2: from the United States taking part. So you know, some
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  Speaker 2: good news from Males Impis in terms of what the
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  Speaker 2: athletes are doing, but on the edges of it some
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  Speaker 2: ugly scenes as well, so not not particularly good if you're.
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  Speaker 1: In miland appreciate that. Mike psa UK europe correspondent. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not quite sure how if you are protesting about its
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  Speaker 1: effect on the environment, how firing off fireworks and stopping
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  Speaker 1: public transport is going to help you cause. But there
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  Speaker 1: you go. For more from early edition with Ryan Bridge.
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