The Prime Minister sacked Peter Mandelson as the ambassador to the US over his relationship with paedophile Jeffery Epstein on Thursday morning.
On Wednesday during Prime Minister’s Questions (PMQs) Sir Keir Starmer said that he has total confidence in Lord Mandelson.
The Shadow Housing Secretary James Clevelry has savaged Starmer raising the question over his judgement as just last week Angela Rayner quit over the stamp duty scandal.
The former Foreign Secretary said, “About a week out from the state visit of President Trump we have no ambassador and a Foreign Secretary that has been in the job for only a few days.
“What a total fiasco!!! And this is all Starmer’s fault. I can see him being gone by Christmas.”
Political Editor Martyn Brown of the Express said that Starmer is “grappling with a full-blown crisis” and it has been “a calamitous 14-months in government, the Express reported.
Labour MPs are reported to be furious, one told the Express, “People will say this raises questions about Starmer’s judgment but it really just confirms what we already knew.
“What was he thinking?
It shows once again that he’s not up to the job of Prime Minister.”
Brown wrote in the Express, “There are also still serious questions about what the Prime Minister knew about the whole unedifying saga and when. The public has the right to know the full facts.
And it raises serious questions about Sir Keir’s personal and political judgement.
Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch said, “Mandelson might have gone but, just as with Angela Rayner, Starmer dithered when he needed to be decisive. Time and again he puts party above country.
“He has no backbone and no convictions. There are now serious questions over what Starmer knew and when. We deserve to know.”
The Reform UK leader Nigel Farage told LBC, “The fact is, we can all make mistakes, misjudge people and have unwise friendships
But the fact is after the conviction, he was still trying to help him while he was Business Secretary with a business deal is just too much
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