Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown has told the BBC the situation facing Sir Keir Starmer is "serious" and suggested he might have been "too slow to do the right things" in the wake of the Peter Mandelson scandal. But, speaking to BBC Radio 4's Today Programme, Brown backed Sir Keir as a "man of integrity" who had been "betrayed" by Mandelson, and said Starmer was the right man to "clean up the system". Brown's remarks came as police concluded a search of two homes linked to Mandelson, after