Is this the most consequential political crisis?

 I cannot recall a more febrile and fractured politician atmosphere than today - in the wake of the Mandelson scandal. Even during the dark days of the Boris Johnson - partygate fiasco and the proroguing of parliament- there was at least the feeling that eventually the - ship of state would right itself. But this scandal is different in a number of ways: a recently serving member of the administration as our ambassador to Washington, a history of bad and immoral behaviour, friendship with a convicted paedophile, taking sums of money, conducting a business meeting in his underpants, betraying his own government during the financial crisis of 2008/9, a wayward disregard for his friendship with the prime minister Gordon Brown, during this financial crisis. Mandelson was at the very heart of the new Labour project for over forty years. It could turn out to be the most consequential crisis and lead to the end of Starmer?