“I have to be honest about failure wherever I see it. The situation in Downing Street is not good enough. There have been too many mistakes.” “The Mandelson saga tells you everything you need to know. The depth of it, the number of people involved, the sheer level of corruption is probably the biggest political scandal we’ve seen in the last 100 years. And it’s not like the Prime Minister wasn’t warned. Everyone knew the guy was guilty.” “I think I thought Keir Starmer was good at first when he first came in. However, my opinion has changed a lot. I think he’s pretty awful now, especially with the whole Mandelson thing. I have – I think he’ll last a week. But yeah.” “I think it could be a tough week for him, but I think he’ll probably survive, yes.”