They worked closely with him ,he was an architect of new Labour,part of the inner circle.He was promoted ,had to be sacked ,failed upwards to the EU gravy train old boy network,,got found out again.Planned and executed labours 2017 failure ,got rewarded by Starmer despite the world telling Starmer he was trouble,which he no don’t by knew.Not to mention putting him in the house of Lords despite two scandals seeing him sacked previously.
You don’t get that without knowing where the skeletons are in politics.