In this episode of Whitehall Sources, Calum Macdonald, Kirsty Buchanan (former adviser to Theresa May) and political strategist Jo Tanner unpack a turbulent week in Westminster and beyond.

🔹 Russian drones breach Polish airspace – NATO faces its biggest test in decades as Donald Tusk invokes Article 4.

🔹 Israel & Gaza tensions – Keir Starmer hosts Israeli President Isaac Herzog amid escalating violence, Doha strikes, and growing Labour Party unrest.

🔹 Peter Mandelson & Jeffrey Epstein – Mandelson admits "embarrassment" as more Epstein correspondence emerges, raising questions over Starmer’s judgment.

🔹 Labour Deputy Leadership contest – why the demand for a “Northern woman” is exposing divisions inside Labour.

We also discuss:

• Andrea Jenkyns’ viral "I’m an insomniac" song and her veterans charity idea 🎶
• Tube strikes, mopeds, and how AI imagines Jo Tanner…

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