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Posted on 04/20/2026 5:54:50 AM PDT by RandFan
Sir Keir Starmer will battle to save his job in Parliament on Monday by setting out further details of the “unforgivable” error by officials in not telling him Peter Mandelson had failed his security vetting.
In a Commons statement, Sir Keir will be faced with allegations he misled Parliament after telling MPs the proper process had been followed in appointing Lord Mandelson to the post of ambassador to the US, insisting he had been kept in the dark about the peer being red-flagged by security experts.
Sir Keir effectively fired the Foreign Office’s top official Sir Olly Robbins last week after it emerged Lord Mandelson had been given developed vetting (DV) status despite failing checks carried out by the agency responsible for assessing security clearances.
Whitehall veteran Sir Olly will give his own account to MPs on Tuesday at the Foreign Affairs Committee, it was confirmed on Monday.
The scandal has fuelled calls for Sir Keir to resign, both from opposition parties but also from his critics within the Labour movement who already fear an electoral bloodbath for the party in May’s contests in English councils and the Scottish and Welsh parliaments.
Scottish Secretary Douglas Alexander told Sky News he expected Sir Keir to survive to lead Labour into the next general election “but there are no certainties” in politics.
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It doesn’t matter much whether Starmer stays or goes. If he goes, Parliament gets to pick his replacement. And Labour has a commanding majority there.
So it will be a case of:
“Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss.”
Sir Oily was ambassador to the US, so the situation couldn’t be worse. UK is not an American ally or friend.
“He portrayed Epstein as someone he barely knew.”
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp37v4kyv3eo
Known Associate #2, did you know of Epstein’s ‘hobby’? No!
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Known Associate #N, did you know of Epstein’s ‘hobby’? No!
Correct. But I'll figure that they'll wait until May 7.
You have to be the saddest of losers to pick this fembo twerp as your leader.
I’m beginning to fear that Labour may be able to pull a Trudeau. The Liberals were going down but then Trudeau resigned, Carney came in and the Liberals won because all the toxicity was focused on Trudeau. Reform can’t make the mistake of focusing all the negativity on Starmer or the negativity will end when Labour switches him out for a more telegenic leader.
He’s not going anywhere.
He serves at the pleasure of the UK’s Deep State.
Oh that’s an interesting thesis. Reform are leading the polls but the vote looks split sadly.
Anything can happen in that kind of scenario.
The lefty parties could band together i.e the Greens, etc. who are also insurgent in their own way.
Carney won because he ran against Trump and there were enough weak minded Canadian voters to fall for that BS.
The other problem, ironically, is that the Conservatives are making a comeback. That will split the vote for Reform. The Conservatives in no way, shape or form deserve a comeback at this point. They were onboard with open borders, free speech restriction laws, turning a blind eye to immigrant crime and authoritarian COVID policies. They were the classic case of talking a good game but governing as liberal lite. I like what Kemi Badenoch says but I think they need more time in the wilderness. So I wish they would stay in 4th place. That would get the message across to them and let Reform win.
Labour has a huge majority in Parliament (done with only 34% of the popular vote, by the way). So there no coalition to fall apart. Unfortunately, that means the next UK general election probably won’t be until August of 2029.
So regardless of what Reform does now, Labour has plenty of time patch things up and then cause more mischief.
🙁
“Great” Britain has been a pathetic joke for some time.
That’s right. I say let him stay as he is a drag on their whole party leading to the May elections.
Well Reform isn’t going to do much better. Its leader is getting more wishy washy by the day.
The UK Caliphate is just a few years away.
The Daily T
It’s Keir Starmer’s darkest day in office. In a statement to the Commons this afternoon, the Prime Minister apologised again for appointing Peter Mandelson as US ambassador, but stopped short of admitting to misleading the House about the vetting process. Despite the Prime Minister laying the blame squarely at the door of the Foreign Office for not telling him Mandelson’s security vetting had been rejected, on today’s Daily T podcast Camilla Tominey and Tim Stanley say that the whole sorry saga is the final nail in the coffin for Starmer’s premiership, and he must resign. Elsewhere, Camilla and Tim look ahead to ousted Foreign Office civil servant Olly Robbins’s appearance before the Select Committee tomorrow, where they expect him to say that he couldn’t act on the results of Mandelson’s vetting as the Government had already announced his appointment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMt3dNk_pfc
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