Starmer lost his chief of staff on Sunday and is rapidly shedding support from Labour legislators after revelations about the relationship between former British ambassador to Washington Peter Mandelson and the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Starmer is due to address Labour lawmakers behind closed doors later Monday in an attempt to rebuild some of his shattered authority.
The political storm stems from Starmer’s decision in 2024 to appoint Mandelson to Britain’s most important diplomatic post, despite knowing he had ties to Epstein.
Starmer fired Mandelson in September after emails were published showing that he maintained a friendship with Epstein after the late financier’s 2008 conviction for sex offenses involving a minor. Critics say Starmer should have known better than to appoint Mandelson, 72, a contentious figure whose career has been studded with scandals over money or ethics.
I’m somewhat surprised proof is needed. Corbyn was ousted on far less
Corbyn was ousted because he won’t play the game. For better or worse you can’t change the world by been a stick in the mud. Corbyn may be a good man (which itself is debatable) but he was a useless politician.
I would be happy to see the back of Starmer for reasons other than this. He’s been Blair 2.0 which isn’t something anyone was asking for.
That’s fair
Corbyn got the boot because he led the party to its worst electoral defeat in 90 years, refused this reality and claimed “we won the argument”.
He was a shit leader who wouldn’t budge on anything, but what they (the media/the public) got him on was supposed anti-semitism from a nothing remark about a graffiti post
From where I was standing, the consensus on that always felt very manufactured.