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.
I think the professional commentators currently think Angela Rayner will be the replacement premier, with Ed Milli as het chosen chancellor. Oh hell!
Just when you think it couldn’t get any worse…
What der Sturmer should have said:-
Think back to the time of Mrs Thatcher. She needed someone to fill a job with great diplomatic demands, Governor of Hong Kong. She found a candidate simply by turning to a suitable, able man who had recently been a leading Conservative politician. Why could I not do likewise?
Because there are no suitable, able men who have recently been leading Labour politicians, save for Peter Mandelson. I had to appoint him, warts and all. I was left with no choice.
DJ - although the prospect of political failure at senior levels seems to have been softened by the revolving door which to some could count as the real route to success.
Tammly and Anon - yes, too grim to contemplate for long but we may have to.
dearieme - yes he could have said that and if David Lammy were to pipe up and say "What about me?", Starmer could have said "Precisely" and given him one of his blank stares.
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