Westminster fears release of ‘embarrassing’ exchanges in Mandelson data dump

Financial Times: Many fear highly embarrassing messages will emerge, including some that contain criticism of Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer himself. 

“There’s a lot of concern that there could be things that are irrelevant to the issue at hand, but very embarrassing — tittle tattle, ‘water cooler’ gossip,” said one person familiar with the matter.

A former Number 10 adviser said: “Honestly, I think this exercise is mental”…