Angela Rayner leads Epstein 'cover-up' revolt against Starmer as he says Mandelson 'lied repeatedly'
Keir Starmer's crisis escalated today as Angela Rayner put herself at the head of a Labour revolt on the Mandelson 'cover-up'.
The former deputy PM was among MPs demanding that Parliament's Intelligence and Security Committee oversees what material is released about the vetting process before Mandelson was appointed US ambassador.
The intervention came after a bruising PMQs where Sir Keir said the ex-Cabinet minister had 'betrayed' the country, and would be legally stripped of his 'Lord' title and kicked out of the privy council.
He said Mandelson had 'lied throughout' the process' of his appointment as envoy to Washington, and pledged to publish details.
Starmer ousted would be well deserved, but his replacement isn't something to anticipate with relish. Unless Labour is hiding someone competent of course, but that would certainly go against the ideological grain.
Imagine Seaside Ange as PM.
Good grief.
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I suspect that Stumbler has been so keen not to fail that he has avoided success.
"All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs."
~ Enoch Powell
Having said that typically those who lead the revolt seldom end up in charge.
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