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Is Keir Starmer really Morgan McSweeney’s puppet?

Two lobby journalists portray the PM as the pawn of ‘the Irishman’ and as ‘a passenger on a train driven by others’ – but there is much more to Starmer than that

Chris Mullin
Morgan McSweeney. Press Association
EXPLORE THE ISSUE 01 March 2025
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