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Why Labour has (among other things) a Starmer problem and Kemi has a Tory problem - my latest polling and analysis in the Mail on Sunday @DailyMail
Data at LordAshcroftPolls.com
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Friendly note to Labour MPs ahead of the vote tomorrow to decide if Starmer should face an ethics probe:
If you vote against it, Reform will carpet bomb your constituency to ensure all your constituents know you voted to save the most unpopular PM of all time.
Vote wisely.
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There is now no ambiguity. Keir Starmer lied and lied and lied again when he said due process had been followed in relation to Mandelson's appointment.
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It's hard to see how Robbins evidence could be more devastating for Starmer. He's made clear beyond doubt No.10 decided Mandelson had to be appointed come what may. Everything Starmer has said about due diligence in relation to the process of his appointment has been a lie.
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The other question Starmer dodged was Mandelson’s links with Sistema, part of Russia’s industrial/military complex. Mandelson served on the board at £200,000 a year from 2013 til at least 2017, which meant he stayed on long after Putin’s annexation of Crimea (2013).
UK intelligence much more worried about this (and his China connections) than the unsavoury Epstein links. Its chairman was a Putin crony. British intelligence knew the board was riddled with Russian spies.
For once, Starmer can’t say he didn’t know. Much of the info was in the public domain. The Sistema issue was included in the Cabinet Office due diligence report which went directly to Starmer on December 11 2024.
Yet within a few days he’d gone ahead with Mandelson’s appointment.
He has yet to explain why he appointed to our most security-sensitive embassy a man who’d recently been on a board full of Russian spies.
Andrew Neil@afneil
Oh it’s gibberish alright. Cabinet secretary Simon Case advised Starmer in November 2024 to do the vetting then appoint Mandelson. Starmer can’t explain why he ignored that advice. If he had followed it he wouldn’t be in the mess he’s in now. Starmer can’t justify ignoring Case by pointing to what Wormald said many months later. Case stepped down December 2024, replaced by Wormald. Wormald went along with Starmer’s timetable. He could hardly reverse himself in a subsequent report. Also, he merely says it’s normal/usual to appoint then vet. Not that Starmer was right to do so. And I think we can all agree Mandelson’s appointment was anything but normal/usual.
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Starmer said “full due process was followed during this appointment, as it is with all ambassadors”. It’s not sustainable to claim that was a truthful statement. Or inadvertent. On Starmer’s instruction due process was specifically discarded to expedite Mandelson’s appointment.
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What Case now proves is Starmer specifically took the decision to appoint Mandelson without any proper due diligence at all, directly against the advice of his officials. Even though he was a major national security risk. Then lied about it. How is that not a resignation issue.
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@CamillaTominey @DPJHodges THAT interview with @TomHayesBmouth will go down as one of the WORST of all time, by any politician, anywhere, ever! Truly atrocious but you were amazing. The facial expressions need their own X feed. Well done!
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I think we can safely conclude that today’s broadcast round hasn’t improved what was already Starmer’s worst weekend in office 🙈
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@GBNEWS @CamillaTominey That was the most appalling political response to questions I have EVER seen. What a complete and utter knob. Camilla was amazing but her reactions were 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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‘He’s either lying and therefore a crook, or he didn’t know and therefore is an idiot?’
‘It’s neither of those options.’
@CamillaTominey pushes Labour MP Tom Hayes over what Sir Keir Starmer did, or didn’t know about Peter Mandelson’s security vetting.
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@JuliaHB1 @bbclaurak You should see the state of the utterly appalling interview with a Labour dickhead on @CamillaTominey , the absolute WORST political response I have ever seen. Camilla is priceless!
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What an utterly pitiful effort at covering the Mandelson vetting story on @bbclaurak show today. Soft soap interview with Liz Kendall, the hapless Govt minister sent out today, and an irrelevant panel.
Has anyone told the BBC that this is a story about a MASSIVE security risk to our country created by a Prime Minister who has lied and lied again about this scandal to save his skin?
Just imagine if this story was about Kemi Badenoch or Nigel Farage as PM. Do you think they'd have given it the same coverage? 🙄
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@Nanaakua1 I would give him until the next bus is due at the end of Downing St. Otherwise, Wednesday. The man is an arrogant fool, and we have had enough of his whiny excuses. Does he even know he’s the PM?
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How much longer do you give #keirstarmer as Prime Minister?
GB News@GBNEWS
'How much more of this man can the public take?' @Nanaakua1 looks at the chaos in the Labour Party to date as pressure mounts on Sir Keir Starmer to resign. 📺 Freeview 236, Sky 512, Virgin 604 🇬🇧 Become a Friend of GB News: gbnews.com/support
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The claim that nobody at the heart of government — ie close to Starmer — knew Mandelson had flunked his security vetting is unravelling at a rate of knots.
Starmer’s head of comms was alerted by the media last September.
Sources tell me multiple folks in the Cabinet Office (where the UK Security Vetting unit is based) had known for quite some time.
Cat Little, Cabinet Office Permanent Secretary, even had a copy of the UK Sec Vet January 2025 document concluding Mandelson was unfit to be US ambassador.
She informed the new cabinet secretary Antonia Romeo.
Soon there were about a dozen lawyers and officials crawling all over it.
Such matters don’t stay secret for long in the upper echelons of Whitehall.
But it seems the PM was still in the dark … until last Tuesday.
Mmmmmm
Andrew Neil@afneil
ANDREW NEIL: We are being led by a man who staggers from crisis to impotence. These are the questions MPs MUST ask the PM next week mol.im/a/15743191 via @DailyMail
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This is the circle it's impossible for No.10 to square. If, as they have begun claiming, Robbins was indeed precluded from informing them because of the rules, then there were no grounds to sack him. If the rules did not preclude him, then it's inconceivable he didn't tell them.
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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.
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We now have the Government response:
Neither the PM nor 10 Downing Street nor the Cabinet Office knew the Foreign Office had decided to ignore the fact Mandelson had failed his security vetting.
Call it the ‘know-nothing’ government.
But it leaves a major question unanswered: why would the FO take it on itself to make such a huge judgement call — and not inform/consult Downing Street?
What was in it for the FO? It hadn’t even necessarily wanted Mandy, unlike Starmer and the 10 Downing Street operation.
Doesn’t add up.
Andrew Neil@afneil
BREAKING NEWS (with the potential to be massive): The Guardian reveals Peter Mandelson failed advanced security vetting before becoming US ambassador. He was initially denied developed vetting clearance in January 2025 - weeks after Keir Starmer had officially announced his appointment. Foreign Office was ‘encouraged’ to deploy a rarely-used power to override the recommendation from security officials. The Government promised total transparency on the Mandelson affair after MPs forced it to release of a batch of documents about the process. But nothing it has released reveals this startling fact. Indeed, Starmer has always insisted Mandelson was subject to 'security vetting, carried out independently by the security services, which is an intensive exercise that gave him clearance for the role'. Developing …
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Starmer forced through Mandelson's appointment despite the fact he'd been red flagged by the security services. He then lied to the House about it. He then tried to cover up publication of the documents that would have exposed the lies. If that isn't a resigning matter, what is.
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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
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BREAKING NEWS (with the potential to be massive):
The Guardian reveals Peter Mandelson failed advanced security vetting before becoming US ambassador.
He was initially denied developed vetting clearance in January 2025 - weeks after Keir Starmer had officially announced his appointment.
Foreign Office was ‘encouraged’ to deploy a rarely-used power to override the recommendation from security officials.
The Government promised total transparency on the Mandelson affair after MPs forced it to release of a batch of documents about the process. But nothing it has released reveals this startling fact.
Indeed, Starmer has always insisted Mandelson was subject to 'security vetting, carried out independently by the security services, which is an intensive exercise that gave him clearance for the role'.
Developing …
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@Steven_Swinford @patrickkmaguire @oliver_wright This is excellent news. There can be no bloodbath too great for Labour on May 7.
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Exclusive from @patrickkmaguire and @oliver_wright
* Labour's internal MRP polling is said to be apocalyptic, in the capital and beyond. Labour is on course to lose *every one* of the 50 seats it holds in Sunderland, home to Bridget Phillipson, the education secretary. Most are predicted to go to Reform
* London, where all councils are up for election, is expected to be especially challenging. There are fears that the Greens could make significant gains in Camden, where Starmer’s seat is located, as well as Hackney, Lewisham and Lambeth
* Labour officials are so concerned by the threat now posed by the Greens in the central London councils they have long won by landslides that they have diverted almost all the party’s campaigning resources to contests in the heart of the capital
* One minister said that a bad night in London would be “existential” for Labour, given how many of its members were based there. The party leaders are well aware that Labour MPs are holding 59 out of the capital’s 75 parliamentary seats
* The minister added that the elections looked set to show that there were “no safe seats” for Labour, adding that they feared it was going to be a “bloodbath”.
thetimes.com/uk/politics/ar…
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