US Edition‘Not Prepared to Walk Away’: Starmer Defends Premiership as UK Government Reels From Epstein Fallout
Starmer faces calls to resign after key aides quit over Mandelson's Epstein ties; police probes and DOJ files reveal possible misconduct, risking Labour's standing ahead of local elections.
- On Sunday, Morgan McSweeney, Prime Minister's chief of staff, resigned and said, `I advised the prime minister to make that appointment and I take full responsibility for that advice`.
- Further context: the US Department of Justice last month released documents suggesting Peter Mandelson passed market-sensitive information, and UK police searched two of his properties last week.
- Another senior aide, Tim Allan, quit on Monday as communications director, saying he would stand down to allow a new No. 10 and issued a brief statement.
- Keir Starmer was fighting to salvage his premiership on Monday after key advisers resigned and Anas Sarwar called for him to step down ahead of local elections in May.
- The scandal's scale has national implications as the Mandelson revelations dominate media, threaten Starmer's premiership 19 months after Labour's landslide last year, and boost Reform UK while senior government figures prepare documents.
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‘Not prepared to walk away’: Starmer defends premiership as UK government reels from Epstein fallout
Keir Starmer was fighting to salvage his premiership on Monday after the resignations of key advisers and growing calls from senior Labour Party figures for the British prime minister to step down, following bitter fallout from the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files.
What did Starmer already know about Mandelson and Epstein?
The Labour government is fighting for its life as the Peter Mandelson scandal continues to unfold. Yesterday, Keir Starmer apologised for believing Mandelson’s “lies” and appointing him as US ambassador when his friendship with the paedophile Jeffrey Epstein was public knowledge. Now, senior government figures are preparing to hand over private messages between Mandelson and Starmer’s top team. Editor Tom McTague is joined by Jim Pickard, depu…
British PM Starmer faces turmoil over Epstein scandal
Morgan McSweeney, PM Keir Starmer's chief of staff, announced his resignation on Sunday. He was once a protégé of former minister and ambassador to the US Peter Mandelson, who fell from grace over his friendship with deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Several European political figures resign over Epstein files
Two senior European political figures were the latest to fall over links to the disgraced US sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s influential chief of staff resigned in the wake of revelations about a former British ambassador to Washington’s ties to Epstein, followed closely by Starmer’s director of communications, who resigned on Monday, adding to pressure on the British leader. In Paris, the veteran politician Jack L…
Several key figures in the government have resigned, and the opposition is demanding a motion of no confidence.
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