UK's Starmer faces parliament over Mandelson vetting as resignation demands swirl

I have no particular love for him but I hope he doesn't resign. Can't see a single other face in parliament I would swap him out for at the moment.

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So Starmer should lose his job over the Epstein files, at the same time as refusing to join Trump's war? Britain has a crisis that exemplifies the struggle of many democracies... social media rules the game, and gives cynical people the power to steer public sentiment. As a result, who can lead?

He has done far better than I expected. Changing now over this fiasco, and it is massive mess up, could be a disaster for the UK. Kier has close ties with Europe and quite frankly our US relations are in peril because of Trump's madness. We need Kier, even if you don't like him. I vote we keep him, and I don't even vote Labour, never have in decades. We need closer ties with Europe more than ever. If we lose both the US and Europe we are truly isolated. The US can not be trusted under a Trump, Vance, Hegseth, Johnson administration. It should be very clear how muich they are manipulating things, it's more mafia than leadership, even though Trump keeps saying how great things are when they are clearly not!

This ‘scandal’ would have been a footnote in the Boris years. It would be hard to find someone on the same wavelength as Trump who ISN’T in the Epstein files.

The left wing parties need to wake up and stop eating themselves alive with infighting and resignation demands. Right wings parties can have rapist,lying, convicted felons as their party heads and still show a unified front.

so if starmer is being held accountable for this whole debacle is king charles also going to be held accountable for andrews "indiscretions" ? It seems inplausible that he and other members of the royal family were completely in the dark about what andrew was doing

the right own the media and are always hard on labour

This is such an absurd “scandal”. Just a relentless witch hunt by the right wing press.

I want to know who keeps pushing that guy, he has always had scandals yet is always given high access positions in goverment, somebody is paying/pushing for this. could be powers in the UK, could be from abroad, I think that is the big question here, why can't fairly smart people who know he is a train wreck waiting happen say no? its actually only under the current goverment that might end the guys career which is good because Mandy seems like a traitor to the UK based on reports.

I find he's got that deer in headlights look all the time.

Oh please dont let him resign. We need a little bit of global stability right now. Let Trump and Co screw themselves with Iran a little more. Hopefully Americans have their limit.

After this he need to commot to thr EU money laundering legislation to f*** these people up

All we need to do to safeguard democracy in Britain is put it at the top of a flight of stairs.

Why is UK politics so unstable?

Politicians have resigned over a lot less than this.

Poor guy

How many PM you changed lately? How it improved you life?

Canadian here, please if he has to be replaced, not someone pro-Trump. 🙏

Starmer lied to Parliament and protected a pedophile who's under the influence of the CCP. This is incredibly scandalous. There's no way he stays in power for much longer.