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Wow. Robbins reveals it wasn’t just Mandelson. Number 10 put “uncomfortable” pressure on Robbins to secretly find a golden diplomatic job for another man, Matthew Doyle. Doyle later was suspended from the Labour Party over friendship with Sean Morton, who Doyle campaigned for after Morton was charged with possessing...

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