Cabinet ministers are calling for Keir Starmer’s chief of staff, Morgan McSweeney, to be sacked over press briefings from No 10 accusing Wes Streeting of plotting a leadership bid. Labour chairwoman Anna Turley says the prime minister has ordered a leak inquiry and will “take action” against those responsible. A tranche of 23,000 documents from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate was released by the US Congress yesterday, appearing to confirm that the photograph of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor with his arm around Virginia Giuffre is real. Emails also show Epstein claiming a victim – later identified as Giuffre – “spent several hours” with Donald Trump at Epstein’s house. New analysis of Adolf Hitler’s DNA suggests the tyrant had a “tiny todger”, says The Sun. Researchers found that the Nazi leader suffered from Kallmann syndrome, a genetic disorder that hinders the development of sexual organs. A previous study confirmed that the fascist dictator had an undescended testicle, lending gratifying weight to the wartime song about his “one ball”.

Trump’s Epstein nightmare is just beginning

As sex offenders go, says Edward Luce in the FT, “Ghislaine Maxwell is in a category of one”. Having been upgraded from a state penitentiary to a prison camp – “the equivalent of moving from a Travelodge to a Trump hotel” – Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking co-conspirator is being so “showered with benefits” that a senior official at the new jail says he is “sick of having to be Maxwell’s bitch”. A commutation from Donald Trump may follow. Who can say what she has done to deserve all this. But with the US government shutdown over and Congress ready to vote on unsealing Epstein’s trove of videos and papers – in addition to the 23,000 documents lawmakers released yesterday – we may be about to find out.

The system that protected Epstein has still not been held accountable. Along with Maxwell, just two others have faced consequences: Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Peter Mandelson. “All three are British.” But there are scores of prominent Americans – including “former senators, presidents, chief executives, billionaires and academics” – who also travelled on Epstein’s “Lolita Express”. Even if they aren’t accused of having non-consensual sex with teenage girls, as Andrew was, they “sustained Epstein’s world”. Bill Gates’s ex-wife Melinda says her divorce was prompted in part by her husband’s friendship with the late paedophile. And it’s an issue the MAGA base cares deeply about, as ultra-Trumpian Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene understands. She is one of four Republicans willing to vote in favour of unsealing the Epstein files, and promises to use her congressional immunity to read out the names of any men accused of sexually abusing young girls. The president keeps saying Epstein is a “dead issue”. The man is dead, but the issue is “very much alive”.