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The prime minister has just about made it to Friday… but the crises keep coming. So is Downing Street a “boys’ club”? And how did two senior Labour figures with links to convicted paedophiles pass vetting?
Beth, Ruth and Harriet lift the lid on the weekend that led to Morgan McSweeney’s sudden resignation, revealing the three options that were on the table.
So now he has two women interim chiefs of staff – are claims that there’s a boys’ club in Downing Street valid? The ladies answer a listener’s question about whether women are being pushed on to a “glass cliff” just when everything’s going wrong.
Plus, Harriet explains what “structural misogyny” looks like in practice, why it matters for decision-making, and the proposal she’s putting directly to Sir Keir Starmer: creating a first secretary of state to drive culture change across government.
And as the Mandelson fallout continues, there are fresh questions over another vetting failure – Matthew Doyle’s peerage.
A source close to the PM rejected suggestions of a “boys’ club” in Downing Street, saying there were a number of “highly qualified and capable women that work in Number 10 “including Cabinet ministers and special advisers across the whole government who are often forgotten in all of this”.
Police search Peter Mandelson’s properties in Camden and Wiltshire
Labour MPs urge Starmer to reveal if he saw peer’s warnings about Mandelson’s Epstein links
Can Starmer survive the Mandelson scandal?Â
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