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Simon Opher MP has said there needs to be a “clearout” of number 10 and has called for the Prime Minister’s chief of staff Morgan McSweeney to leave.

On the Today programme on Friday, the Labour MP said: “There’s a lot of anger amongst Labour MPs, because really we want to, I mean, yesterday, I want to be talking about the cancer care plan, not about Peter Mandelson.

“So I think what we need to do, I think what needs to really happen is that we need to, Keir Starmer needs to change his advisers in Number 10, I think he’s been badly advised, and he’s been really let down, particularly on this decision.

“I mean, I know in politics, we really rely on people to sort of cover our backs, our advisors, and I think they patently haven’t done this with Peter Mandelson, and I think so we need a bit of a clear out really at number 10.”

Asked whether this meant Mr McSweeney leaving, Mr Opher replied: “I think so yes”.

“If my chief of staff had done this I think he would be looking for another job to be honest,” he said.