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Peter Mandleson wasn’t just nominated out of the blue. Especially not when we had a perfectly good US Ambassador already in situ. No, someone wanted him there. And that person (or persons) was prepared to overlook parliamentary norms to get him there. The question is, why? (*And I’m willing to bet it was the same clique who had already begun negotiating the Chagos Islands ‘deal’ before Starmer was even installed - ie. the same clique who seem to think this country is at their disposal to do with as they please).

🚨BREAKING: LABOUR MP GRAHAM STRINGER CALLS FOR KEIR STARMER TO RESIGN "This is a scandal - If the PM has lied... it's a capital offense and [he] would have to go."

Bullsh*t Alert Given the Guardians findings - how the hell can he survive as PM? Trust is GONE.

WHAT?! Did I just hear this right from Labour’s Emily Thornberry? She was asked “Do you think this could sink the Prime Minister?” in regard to Starmer misleading the Public and the House that Mandelson had passed the Security Vetting when he hadn’t. Her answer? “No because he was reading from a script” and “He’s only a human being” What the hell did I just listen to??

If you still refuse to resign after your 20th national scandal, you are a dictator. Keir Starmer is a dictator.

This is devastating (and potentially career-ending) for the PM, from @SamCoatesSky I'll be at @SkyNews bright and early tomorrow with the first reaction across all the front pages 💥 tune in 6am folks

Can it actually get any worse for Starmer? He’s up to his neck in the Mandelson fiasco, his story keeps changing by the hour, and every “clarification” makes him look more dishonest and less in control. Why is this man still in No 10 tonight?

The Prime Minister is either incompetent, gullible or a liar. Or all three.

I do not believe for a second that the Foreign Office would independently overrule the Security Services on someone who had failed vetting to become UK Ambassador to the United States without telling No. 10. Keir Starmer must think the public were born yesterday. It is disgraceful, and he should resign.

The idea a clapped out Foreign Office civil servant decided to take it on themselves to ignore the fact that Mandelson failed security vetting and instead nodded his appointment through, is for the birds. Denial will not save Starmer .

Good luck Marie-Claire 🩵

Olly Robbins resigns as top civil servant in the Foreign Office. I doubt that will be the end of the matter.

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So. To be 100% clear. NO TAX INCREASES ! LIAR LIAR PANTS ON 🔥 📛 FIRE. The Labour Government are bare faced liars 😔 😠

The moment he lied!

I've never seen so many scandals attached to one man, donkey field, Sue gray, Mandelson, McSweeney, rent boys, Lord Ali, beergate, voice coach, freebies, resignations, Chagos deal, Chinese spy case collapse, Chinese spy embassy, Chinese donors, U turns, now misleading parliament

Starmer’s government has been defined by implausible deniability.

David Lammy Must Also Go. Ministerial responsibility is not a complicated doctrine. It does not require proof of personal involvement. It does not require evidence that a minister gave a direct instruction or attended a specific meeting. It requires only this: that something of consequence happened in a minister's department, on a minister's watch, and that the minister is therefore accountable for it. Something of consequence happened in David Lammy's department. Foreign Office officials used exceptional powers to overrule the security services and grant developed vetting clearance to a man those services had explicitly declined to recommend. That decision was taken inside the Foreign Office. David Lammy was Foreign Secretary. The chain of accountability runs directly to his desk. He has two choices and neither is comfortable. Either he knew the override had taken place, in which case his silence while Keir Starmer told Parliament three times that due process had been followed makes him complicit in that deception. Or he did not know, in which case the most consequential and sensitive decision taken by his department in his tenure was made without his knowledge, which is a failure of ministerial oversight serious enough to warrant resignation on its own terms. There is no third option. No position from which Lammy emerges with his authority intact. Rachel Reeves, speaking in Washington, was careful to distance herself from the affair. Lammy has said nothing. That silence will not protect him. The doctrine that protects ministers from the routine decisions of their officials has never extended to the use of exceptional powers to override the security services on a matter of national sensitivity. This was not routine. Exceptional powers were invoked. Exceptional accountability follows. The Security Services said no. Someone in the Foreign Office said yes. David Lammy was in charge of the Foreign Office. In any serious political culture, that sentence ends his tenure. He should resign.

"To us he's just Peter" 🤮🤮🤮

Starmer should, but won’t resign. His arrogance, love of power & lack of integrity will see him clinging on. He has the skin of a rhinoceros. There must be a vote of no confidence. Parliament should be dissolved & a GE called. He’s a dead man walking. #starmermustgo