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A special issue on the government in crisis, featuring: Ailbhe Rea on Keir Starmer’s most damaging week in office yet; Tom McTague’s political obituary for Morgan McSweeney; Andrew Marr’s exclusive encounter with a Prime Minister who has been strikingly re-energised by the attacks on him; and the former PM Gordon Brown on what the Mandelson-Epstein scandal has revealed about Britain’s decades-long complacency over – and complicity in – the scourge of international sex trafficking. Plus: