Sources say cabinet ministers warned PM against alienating civil service after firing of official over Mandelson scandal
Keir Starmer is looking increasingly isolated over his handling of the Peter Mandelson scandal with divisions emerging in cabinet over his decision to sack the Foreign Office civil servant Olly Robbins.
On another difficult day for the prime minister, the Guardian learned of concerns around the Cabinet table, a senior minister refused to say the dismissal was far and several mandarins called for him to be reinstated.
