Labour, Mandelson and Keir Starmer
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Sir Keir Starmer is facing his toughest week as Prime Minister yet as MPs will decide whether or not to order an investigation into his involvement in the Peter Mandelson scandal. On Monday, Speaker Lindsay Hoyle decided to grant a debate on Sir Keir being referred to the Privileges Committee.
Labour Party royalty turned out in force earlier this month to attend the funeral of Phil Woolas, the popular former MP and minister who had been a key ally to a series of modernising party leaders.
More revelations about Peter Mandelson’s failed security vetting have raised concerns among Labour MPs, who are also worried about the party's prospects in the May elections
Other seats up for grabs are spread across the North, the Midlands and the South. Traditionally Labour-voting cities like Birmingham, Manchester, Newcastle and Wolverhampton are all holding elections, with discontent with the government making the outcomes less predictable.
A LABOUR MP has broken ranks to call for Sir Keir Starmer to resign amid the Downing Street “psychodrama”. Backbencher Jonathan Brash insisted the Mandelson affair has led him to call for the
Keir Starmer’s Labour Party is projected to lose seats nationwide in UK local and regional elections on May 7. Nowhere will that sting more than in the race for the Welsh Senedd.
The situation goes from bad to worse for Sir Keir Starmer. He gave an interview over the weekend insisting he could “fight on” and win the next general election. However, opposition parties have
Keir Starmer was facing a mutiny among Labour MPs - but one thing is keeping him in power, according to reports.
Doubts about Keir Starmer’s future as prime minister has fed months of plots and paranoia within the Labour Party about who if anyone might be ready to take his place.