{"id":84652,"date":"2026-02-08T18:28:49","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T18:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=84652"},"modified":"2026-02-08T18:28:49","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T18:28:49","slug":"mcsweeney-quits-as-starmers-chief-of-staff-over-mandelson-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/02\/08\/mcsweeney-quits-as-starmers-chief-of-staff-over-mandelson-scandal\/","title":{"rendered":"McSweeney quits as Starmer\u2019s chief of staff over Mandelson scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1VVmbF.img?w=534&amp;h=356&amp;m=6&amp;x=328&amp;y=134&amp;s=403&amp;d=146\" alt=\"Starmer appointed Mandelson as ambassador to the US with McSweeney\u2019s advice (AP)\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Mandelson has been ousted from Labour \u2013 but Starmer hasn\u2019t heard the end of it\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/politics\/mandelson-epstein-files-keir-starmer-labour-b2912045.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">Morgan McSweeney<\/a>\u00a0has resigned as Keir Starmer\u2019s<a title=\"Mandelson-Starmer latest: Morgan McSweeney resigns as PM\u2019s chief of staff over US ambassador scandal\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/politics\/mandelson-starmer-epstein-files-lammy-labour-latest-news-b2916215.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">\u00a0Downing Street chief of staff<\/a> over his role in the appointment of Peter Mandelson as US ambassador.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/mcsweeney-quits-as-starmer-s-chief-of-staff-over-mandelson-scandal\/ar-AA1VVhYL?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=69884ae4872d401da5dbd6ced8ad2eb4&amp;cvpid=772d0c05a84242d6fb116db1da970821&amp;ei=76\"> Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Morgan McSweeney\u00a0has resigned as Keir Starmer\u2019s\u00a0Downing Street chief of staff over his role in the appointment of Peter Mandelson as US ambassador&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":84653,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-84652","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Morgan-Mcsweeney.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84654,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84652\/revisions\/84654"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}