An influential Labour Party peer has joined the chorus of calls demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer over the appointment of Lord Peter Mandelson as U.S. ambassador despite his ties to deceased paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein.
This week, the long-running scandal enveloping Downing Street over the appointment of veteran Labour spin doctor Lord Mandelson to the top diplomatic posting in Washington rocketed back into the headlines after it emerged that he was selected despite having failed his security services vetting process.
Top civil servant Sir Oliver ‘Olly’ Robbins was sacked on Thursday in an apparent attempt to divert attention away from Prime Minister Starmer, who maintained that he was unaware that Mandelson had failed the vetting process before having decided to make the appointment, itself a tacit admission that the PM was not in control of his own government.
The claim has been treated with widespread
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