‘If someone had pulled the trigger’: MPs rue lack of challenger to oust Keir Starmer

PM clings on to power amid damaging fallout from Mandelson row on a day Commons mutiny filled the air

The most dangerous moment of Keir Starmer's premiership came just after lunchtime on Wednesday, when mutiny was the talk of the Commons tea room.

Anger is widespread across Labour - but it was at its most palpable among the party's new MPs, as the Conservatives used a humble address to force the disclosure of the vetting documents and communications linked to Peter Mandelson, disgraced by his close association with Jeffrey Epstein.