The Prime Minister got here beneath fireplace on the information channel over the Peter Mandelson scandal.
Political commentator Duncan Barkes mentioned Keir Starmer on GB Information Breakfast (Picture: GB Information)
Embattled Prime Minister Keir Starmer was accused of hypocrisy by political commentator Duncan Barkes, who mentioned the Peter Mandelson vetting scandal on GB Information breakfast. Chatting with hosts Ellie Costello and Alex Armstrong, he mentioned the Labour Celebration was stuffed with cronies regardless of Starmer’s protestations.
“I feel there is a sizeable chunk of the Labour vote who put their assist behind Labour within the Basic Election in 2024 as a result of they weren’t the Conservative Celebration,” he mentioned. They noticed the Tories as being stuffed with cronies and the entire stuff (with) Boris Johnson or Rishi Sunak et cetera, et cetera. And Starmer made an enormous level about saying, ‘Look, we’re not like that. Give us a shot. It’s going to be very completely different from what we have seen during the last virtually two years. It is not the case. And the Mandelson stuff is taking part in out, and notably what we heard with Sir Olly Robbins yesterday, makes it very, very clear that there was a component of like, properly, it is a job for the boys,” he mentioned.
He continued: “Anybody with a mind can see, put the safety vetting to 1 facet within the thought of main in direction of not passing him (for the job), Mandelson had a really clear monitor document prior to now.
“He was successfully sacked twice by Tony Blair. , he wasn’t nicknamed the Prince of Darkness for enjoyable.
“And…in fact, we all know, he remained associates with Jeffrey Epstein. All of those ought to have been pink flags.
“And what we heard yesterday with Olly Robbins. There was clearly strain to really approve Mandelson and get him into the job of the US ambassador,” he noticed.
His remarks got here following Dame Emily Thornberry’s quizzing of Sir Olly Robbins about what Sir Keir Starmer knew about Lord Mandelson on Tuesday, April 21, 2026.
Through the interrogation he claimed “the choice was taken by the Cupboard Workplace that there was no must vet Mandelson” and confirmed “my workplace had been beneath fixed strain” from No 10 to clear the Labour stalwart’s appointment as ambassador to the USA.
He additionally confirmed Emily Thornberry’s assertion that Morgan McSweeney had referred to as his predecessor with the exhortation: “Simply f***ing approve it!”
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