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Gordon Brown and Angela Rayner 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.were plotting against Sir Keir Starmer according to the messages seen in the latest tranche of the Mandelson files.

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.

The claim was swiftly pounced on by the Conservative Party, with Westminster insiders likening it to the infamous “there’s no money” letter left after the previous Labour Government.

Private messages, now made public, have an uneasy No10, with more files expected to be released in the coming months.

Lord Mandelson was removed from his plum Washington posting after further information about his relationship with the convicted American paedophile Jeffrey Epstein came to light.

Parliament then forced No10 to release thousands of documents relating to his appointment after fears of a cover-up by Downing Street was being carried out.

Rebellious Labour MPs, including Angela Rayner, forced the release by siding with the Conservatives in a process known as a ‘Humble Address’.

A powerful committee in Westminster has now spent months overseeing the release of the files, so that their public display does not conflict with an ongoing political investigation into the ousted Ambassador.

Lord Mandelson has consistently denied any wrongdoing.

Yet the process has already forced multiple resignations from No10, with Sir Keir’s former chief of staff Morgan McSweeney leaving his post earlier this year.

Sir Olly Robbins, the boss of the Foreign Office, was effectively sacked from his position after the second tranche of files was released.

In these files it was revealed that Lord Mandelson had failed his security vetting. Sir Keir and the foreign secretary announced they had “lost confidence” in the Mandarin and fired him.

The Mandelson scandal has engulfed Sir Keir for months, and led to allegations of a cover-up and demands from MPs for him to face a sleaze probe in parliament, and resign his post.

But despite allegations revealed in the latest drop, Sir Keir appointed Mr Brown to a new position shortly after the disastrous set of May local elections.

He was made Sir Keir’s special envoy on global finance, despite being considered by his critics as instrumental in the global financial crisis of 2008.

In the files, Lord Mandelson claimed that Mr Brown was using Ms Rayner to try and destabilise Sir Keir’s regime and impose a new Prime Minister.

“I doubt he thinks Ed is fit for purpose,” the disgraced peer writes, before telling Mr McFadden that Mr Brown “is doing to Keir what he has always done to successive Scottish leaders.”

At the time of his appointment to his new role advising the Prime Minister, he was accused of trying to undermine, No10 confirmed Mr Brown would be “tasked with developing new international finance partnerships”.

These would be done to “support defence and security-related investment” and would also include “measures that underpin the UK’s relationship with Europe”

The government has not released all of the files relating to the appointment of the 72-year-old peer to the post of US Ambassador.

Several documents have been withheld from publication so they would not prejudice a police investigation into Lord Peter Mandelson.

The Government confirmed that other “targeted redactions” had been made to prevent “real-world harms”.

It is understood that redactions were agreed on national security grounds, and that the Government intends to publish the withheld documents once the investigation is complete, or earlier if they cease to be prejudicial to the police’s work.