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No 10

Breaking point

The prime minister’s former aide Morgan McSweeney saw the prime minister as his creation. The imbalanced relationship led to the prime minister becoming, as one Labour MP put it, “a pescatarian forced to eat dog meat”. Now that McSweeney is gone, Starmer has a chance to reset – if he dares to take it

By Rachel Sylvester

Epstein files

Shot in the foot

Despite what the former prince told Newsnight, a new year greeting and a confidential briefing reveal his links with Epstein were far from over, writes Jon Ungoed-Thomas

Brown’s letters

A warning ignored

The former PM wrote to Keir Starmer to express his doubts about hiring Mandelson and ex-Sun editor David Dinsmore, writes Catherine Neilan

Fifty shades of drey

Squirrel safe sex

New baited traps deliver a dye alongside an oral contraceptive, so it’s clear when blushing greys have taken the pill, writes James Tapper

For today

‘I don't think Keir Starmer’s got three days’

McSweeney resignation

Catherine Neilan

‘I don't think Keir Starmer’s got three days’

Ghislaine’s riches came from her father, and another fortune from Epstein

Maxwell’s millions

Alexi Mostrous

Ghislaine’s riches came from her father, and another fortune from Epstein

Orphaned brothers will lose their youth waiting for Afghan inquiry

Justice delayed

Ceri Thomas

Orphaned brothers will lose their youth waiting for Afghan inquiry

Bad Bunny: the planet’s biggest star has Trump fuming

Profile

Barbara Ellen

Bad Bunny: the planet’s biggest star has Trump fuming

The Observer Walk

Sadiq Khan: ‘Starmer has to stay. You wouldn’t sack a football manager after 35 minutes’

Mayor of London revisits the Tooting streets where he grew up and talks to Rachel Sylvester about rejoining the EU in his lifetime, Trump’s ‘rubbish’, Mandelson’s ‘arrogance’ and why he takes bodyguards to the cinema