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Sir Keir Starmer has said it is “a little bit far-fetched” to suggest the theft of his former chief of staff Morgan McSweeney’s phone was in any way linked to the release of files on Lord Peter Mandelson.There are concerns exchanges relating to Lord Mandelson’s appointment as British ambassador to the US could be lost as a result of the snatching of the mobile phone in London in October 2025.

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00:00Can you understand why people are suspicious about his phone being stolen just before, just as the Manderson scandal was
00:07unfolding?
00:08Well, the phone was stolen. It was reported to the police.
00:14There's a transcript of the call in which Morgan McSweeney gives his name, his date of birth, the details of
00:20the phone,
00:20and the police confirm that it was reported.
00:24Unfortunately, there are thefts like this.
00:26It was stolen, it was reported at the time, and the police have acknowledged and confirmed that that is what
00:33happened.
00:34And the idea that somehow everybody could have seen that sometime in the future there would be a request for
00:40the phone is, to my mind, a little bit far-fetched.
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