Keir Starmer’s days as Prime Minister are numbered, Labor MPs have warned, after a week of bitter outrage over the appointment of Peter Mandelson as US ambassador despite his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein. Several MPs said the Prime Minister’s chief of staff, Morgan McSweeney, should take charge and resign, while one MP from the 2024 intake said the mood around No 10 felt ‘terminal’. Lucy Hogg talks to political correspondent Alexandra Topping

