Morgan McSweeney told MPs yesterday that seeing photos of Mandelson and Epstein together was like “a knife through my soul” – even though the pictures were already in circulation. We shouldn’t be surprised, says James Butler on Novara Live. The idea that behind-the-scenes figures like McSweeney and Dominic Cummings are political geniuses is massively inflated – and often depends on luck.

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