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Anger among Labour MPs grows over Starmer's handling of Mandelson scandal
bbc ^ | Feb 5 | bbc

Posted on 02/04/2026 10:08:26 PM PST by RandFan

Summary

Anger is growing among Labour backbenchers over Keir Starmer's handling of the Lord Mandelson scandal

It comes after the prime minister told Parliament he was aware of the former business secretary's ongoing friendship with paedophile Jeffrey Epstein when he appointed him as UK ambassador to the US last year

Starmer said he was misled about the "sheer depth and extent" of Mandelson's relationship with Epstein

Asked on BBC Newsnight if the prime minister should step down, Labour MP Barry Gardiner said: "I think he needs to think very hard about what is in the country's best interest"

MP Rebecca Long-Bailey said Starmer's decision to appoint Mandelson was a "catastrophic misjudgement"

After pressure from the Conservatives and some Labour MPs, Starmer said the government would release all material relating to Mandelson's 2024 appointment - barring national security and "international relations" exemptions

There is a sense of fury across the Labour Party, with the latest events leaving the PM's authority severely weakened, writes our correspondent Harry Farley

Mandelson has not responded to requests for comment - the BBC understands his position is that he has not acted in any way criminally and that he was not motivated by financial gain

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...


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Labor are in open revolt! The end is near for Starmer with Epstein/Mandelson scandal bringing him down. Who knew what, when.

If Labor change leader there will be calls for a General Election.

The atmosphere in Westminster/London is described as febrile

1 posted on 02/04/2026 10:08:26 PM PST by RandFan
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To: RandFan

Labor are in open revolt!


They’re revolting, alright.


2 posted on 02/04/2026 10:23:35 PM PST by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: RandFan

If you follow the media in the UK, they are in a full-blown meltdown over Peter Mendelson, I don’t know who Mendelson and why people are in such a meltdown over him.

I know he’s a pervert based on the information from that latest Epstein files and he’s under criminal investigation over what he’s done.


3 posted on 02/04/2026 10:45:17 PM PST by srmanuel ( )
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To: srmanuel
The reason is that media has allowed Mandelson to play them ever since the late 1990s. So now when he has, or is, falling down it is important to show that one is very much on the right side of things. Or as a political commenter noted on his blog yesterday:

But one of the most telling comments, I thought, didn’t come from the legacy media but from social media in a throwaway remark that predicted: “You just know that in 9 months’ time they’re all going to be tearfully accepting awards from each other for their ‘fearless’ reporting of the downfall of Mandelson”.

Media: morally bankrupt

4 posted on 02/04/2026 11:04:23 PM PST by ScaniaBoy (Part of the Right Wing Research & Attack Machine)
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To: ScaniaBoy

keir the Clown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyY40mFRWBo&list=RDwuBRwMFK28U&index=11


5 posted on 02/04/2026 11:15:51 PM PST by an amused spectator (principled conservatism is Lefty subterfuge)
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To: RandFan

Disagree. I think this is Labour “lightening the troika.” I don’t think they actually disagree with Starmer but are desperate to try to cling to some power and are willing to throw Starmer overboard in an attempt to do so.

After all, they didn’t care when it was Jimmy Savile - Labour went to quite the trouble to help bury that one.


6 posted on 02/04/2026 11:24:08 PM PST by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: srmanuel

Mendelson is the original “spin doctor” - responsible for deflecting many, many, many scandals that should have sunk Labour under Blair and later.


7 posted on 02/04/2026 11:25:37 PM PST by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: RandFan

They all have been screwing every one of their people for years. Now they pretend to be angry over just a few kids.

Give me a break.


8 posted on 02/04/2026 11:50:45 PM PST by griffin (When you have to shoot, SHOOT; don't talk. -Tuco)
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To: RandFan
The end is near for Starmer with Epstein/Mandelson scandal bringing him down.

Rubbish. Labour knows that if a General Election is called, Reform wins. To minimize the already small possibility of an election being called, Labour will stick with Starmer.

Given that that oily creep Farage is distancing himself from Tommy Robinson (because Robinson's of a lower class than Farage), the "reformation" of Britain is unlikely to happen.

When looking at politics in Britain everything, and I mean everything is affected by what social class one's a member of.

9 posted on 02/05/2026 12:16:45 AM PST by Rocco DiPippo (Either the Deep State destroys America or we destroy the Deep State. -Donald Trump)
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To: Rocco DiPippo; RandFan

Well, Labour does not need to call an election even if they change party leader. The new party leader will be the new PM.

Unfortunately, if Starmer is kicked out - as he should be - it is likely that the hard left will gain the upper hand in Labour. In that case there will be another couple of hard years for Britain before the next election, when Labour will be ousted.


10 posted on 02/05/2026 12:48:35 AM PST by ScaniaBoy (Part of the Right Wing Research & Attack Machine)
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To: RandFan

Noticed that many Trump haters turn out to be “friends” of Epstein?


11 posted on 02/05/2026 1:05:22 AM PST by paudio (Charlie Kirk is this era's MLK)
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To: paudio
Noticed that many Trump haters turn out to be “friends” of Epstein?

What a surprise - NOT!

Mark Steyn's friend Delingpole told him "that the people who really run the world possessed kompromat on everybody else, and you weren't allowed to advance into the upper echelons of the global political class unless they had something on you".

The Trump haters are to a man (and woman) in-people.

12 posted on 02/05/2026 1:54:34 AM PST by ScaniaBoy (Part of the Right Wing Research & Attack Machine)
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To: griffin

The issue has never been about a “few kids”.

It has always been about blackmail of public officials.

The “few kids” is just the excuse fed to the peons.


13 posted on 02/05/2026 1:55:24 AM PST by cgbg ("Your identity is how power treats you.")
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