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Pat McFadden: All Labour does is ask ‘who can we tax?’
Hundreds of previously classified files and messages were published after MPs pressed the government to explain Mandelson’s appointment and Epstein links.
Summary
Labour cares only about who it can tax in order to pay more in benefits, a senior Cabinet minister complained to Lord Mandelson. Pat McFadden, Sir Keir Starmer’s enforcer in Cabinet at the time, told the disgraced peer that every meeting he had with members of the Parliamentary Labour Party concerned the question: “Who can we tax in order to pay benefits to others?”