New Testimony Raises Pressure on UK's Starmer over Choice of Envoy ...

Does anything remain of Starmerism?

Surreal: I was listening intently to every syllable of Olly Robbins’s evidence to the Foreign Affairs Committee on 21 April as I walked through sunlit central London, dodging cyclists, to a growth conference, featuring Ed Miliband and other ministers. This is a war of words and credibility that is just getting started. Very brief summary at the time of writing? Starmer tells the Commons he’s incredulous he wasn’t told about the Mandelson briefin…

In The Room | Does Olly Robbins’ testimony signal the end for Starmer?

Westminster watchers have had their popcorn out over the last 24 hours. On Monday, the prime minister, Sir Keir Starmer, was grilled for two hours by MPs. A day later, Sir Olly Robbins, ex-permanent under-secretary at the Foreign Office, meticulously responded to the Foreign Affairs Select Committee. The result: more doubts over Keir Starmer’s handling of Peter Mandelson’s appointment as US ambassador. On this week’s episode of In The Room, form…

New testimony raises pressure on UK's Starmer over choice of envoy ...