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Lord Peter Mandelson expressed his concerns to the Prime Minister’s right hand man Patrick McFadden and warned that Sir Keir’s former deputy was being used to try and remove him from office.

In the messages, the disgraced former Labour peer branded Ms Rayner as “an instrument of destabilisation” and suggested the Blair-era Chancellor, and former PM, Mr Brown, “has it in for Keir and Rachel big time”.

The flurry of messages between the two men, who were at the time influential members of Sir Keir’s inner circle, revealed mounting concerns that the PM was not “leading from the front”.

Labour MPs were “mutinous”, the peer said, with Mr McFadden saying the Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP) was asking “who can we tax in order to pay benefits to others” every time they met.

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