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@NotFarLeftAtAll FM! Just when you thought things could not get any worse! The tax dodger and the king of the north. Labours dream team!

🚨 Rumours are circulating online about Angela Rayner and Andy Burnham are reportedly calling for a Motion of No Confidence Vote on Keir Starmer’s leadership. Will he Resign or be Sacked

@triffic_stuff_ Rayner is thick as pig poo. It’s laughable that she could be in a position of power. She can’t spell cat, never mind hold her own on a world stage of political heads

With rumours of a leadership challenge against Keir Starmer now circulating after Andy Burnham was seen secretly meeting with Angela Rayner yesterday, the usual Labour infighting is back in full swing. Starmer may well be on his way out, but don’t fool yourselves: things won’t get any better anytime soon. They could easily get worse. Just watch this painful old BBC Daily Politics clip where the great @afneil effortlessly dismantles her on corporation tax and capital gains tax. Rayner is utterly clueless. She knows nothing. She gets basic things wrong, dodges every specific, and just regurgitates empty talking points about “priorities” and “investing in public services” while Neil repeatedly presses for actual numbers, revenue figures, or policy details. It’s actually painful to watch her flounder like this. And even more painful to think this woman could soon be Prime Minister. In the end, even the unflappable Andrew Neil throws in the towel: “You don’t know, do you?” followed by a defeated “I’m lost” 😂 If this is the “brains” behind a leadership challenge, God help us all. 🤦‍♂️

@FPLfrasier Because he didn’t get fouled

Last man foul. No attempt to play the ball. Absolutely no attempt. Someone tell me why it’s not a red card and penalty.

@Dockon1Seats @Carra23 @WeAreTheOverlap @GNev2 Such charming fans

Just can’t help yourself can you Carragher, you red shite kopite cunt, surprised you didn’t spit on someone #everton #evertonvliverpool #utft #efc @Carra23 @WeAreTheOverlap @GNev2

@Dom_Szoboszlai1 Ali for Reina

Liverpool’s greatest XI of all time 🔴 Legends. History. Greatness. How many are you changing? 👇 #LFC

@LeonardBriscoe3 Deluded !

Bravo Keir for opening the strait and cleaning up Trumps mess. Who needs a navy when we have a leader of substance and this kind of soft power on the international stage?

@DrNeilStone Keir did it? You will be claiming he piloted the rocket to the moon and back, next! Your deluded! Stick to infectious diseases.

KEIR DID IT! HE OPENED THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ!! I'm so proud to be British 🇬🇧🇬🇧 That's MY Prime Minister 🥰🥰🥰

@Matt_Pinner Robin Reliant

If Margaret Thatcher was a Rolls Royce what is Starmer?

@davetv67 @AlanRee65146386 @AndyRejoinEU WTF is that supposed to mean?

@AlanRee65146386 @JohnP70475 @AndyRejoinEU

◇Cameron took UK out of the EU ◇Johnson killed 23,000+ ◇Truss crashed the UK economy ◇Starmer appointed the wrong man Get some perspective, folks.

@tom_watson Tom, He lied. David Maddox wrote to Downing St, Sept 25 to advise Mandelson (we just call him Peter) had failed security vetting. Why is it Starmer still claims no one knew? Stop treating the public as if we are stupid! He’s trying to save his own skin!!!

He is many things but Keir Starmer is not a liar.

@PolitlcsUK How convenient. Getting out of the kitchen because he can’t stand the heat!

🚨 NEW: Keir Starmer is flying to Paris this morning to co-host a virtual meeting of the "Strait of Hormuz Maritime Freedom of Navigation Initiative"

Labour’s audacious bid to cancel next week’s PMQs session after Starmer’s angry bust-up with Commons Speaker Keir Starmer is running scared. After his humiliating public clash with Speaker Lindsay Hoyle, who had to rebuke him live for dodging questions, Labour is now pushing to scrap next week’s PMQs entirely to avoid more tough scrutiny from Kemi Badenoch. This comes on top of the Mandelson vetting fiasco, where No10 first claimed he was cleared then admitted he failed US security checks. Starmer’s team is desperately trying to shut down the Commons rather than face the music. Classic evasion from a PM who can’t answer straight.

@JuliaHB1 Spot on 👏👏👏

Just to be clear... Lord Mandelson, a proven liar, failed security vetting to be the UK's most senior diplomat trusted with vital state and security secrets - but no one at the Foreign Office bothered to tell the PM or anyone else at Number 10 about it. Do they seriously expect us to believe this claptrap? Just how dumb do they think we are?! The Prime Minister is either a liar or a fool. Either way, he has to resign.

@owenjonesjourno Incompetence ! Eight fingers and two thumbs but not one of them on the pulse!

How is it possible that the Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary didn't know Peter Mandelson failed security vetting? Why would that information not be relayed immediately to them? What possible reason would there be to not do this?

@Peston So they should go for reasons of incompetence? As in a court of law, ignorance is no excuse!

Downing Street says neither the PM or the then foreign secretary David Lammy knew that Peter Mandelson failed security vetting to be US ambassador till a few days ago. Sources say they are incandescent that they were not told. The clear implication is that the permanent under secretary at the foreign office Olly Robbins over-ruled the vetting recommendation and never told ministers. If that is right, and no official is denying that, it is impossible to see how he keeps his job

@BethRigby Beth, how perilous is his position? Is ignorance an acceptable excuse or is it incompetence? Please advise or put this to him directly!

NEW: Anger in No 10 tonight - am told by a source that neither the PM nor his advisors were told, over a series of months, that Mandelson had been granted security clearance against the recommendation of UK security vetting. That suggests this information was held in foreign office and not shared. Big Qs now about the PM misleading the House. I am told the PM had been asking Qs about vetting and not been told this information while giving statements to parliament. Told this week PM had been trying to get answers about what happened since Tues night - Guardian got ahead of story. The critical point is that the minister has to have ‘knowingly misled’ the House, and clearly No 10 saying tonight the PM was not aware. I understand the PM had been intending to update the HoC as soon as No 10 had established facts, which they have been doing since Tues. So expect to see the PM come to HoC on Monday to correct the record I asked PM on March 16 whether he has misled the House when he said due process was followed. This is what he told me BETH RIGBY: On the Mandelson files, your national security adviser said the process was quote, weirdly rushed, and Mandelson was appointed before developed vetting had been complete. You told MPs in the House of Commons that due process was followed. Is there a possibility that you have misled the House when you said that? KEIR STARMER: No, and the independent adviser looked at that very question. I think on Thursday or Friday of last week, and answered it very robustly, that the process had been followed. The process wasn't strong enough. And amongst the changes that I intend to put into place is the fact that you can't announce someone until the vetting is finished. It wasn't an individual decision in the Mandelson case, that was the process. Well, you only have to look at that. in the light of the appointment, to realise that that needs to change. But on due process, the process that was there was followed, the problem was the process wasn't strong enough, but ultimately, it was my mistake and I have apologised for that and quite right to.

@ZOrtiz99 In desperate need of a meat and potato pie

What would you call this body type?!

@PippaCrerar In which case he should be sacked for incompetence as opposed to dishonesty.

BREAKING: Downing Street says that neither Keir Starmer nor David Lammy knew that Peter Mandelson failed his security vetting - and lays blame with Foreign Office official for overruling the decision.

@EdwardJDavey “If” what is with this “If”? Starmer has lied through his teeth in an attempt to save his own skin!

If Keir Starmer has misled Parliament and lied to the British people, he has to go.