Starmer under fresh pressure to sack Mandelson as MP claims parliamentary party ‘100%’ against letting him stay – UK politics live | Politics

At 10.30 at Commons, there will be an emergency question in Peter Mandelson. The speaker was discussed by the conservative Neil O’Brien A Foreign Ministry asks for a statement about the process of “the United Kingdom’s appointment of the US Ambassador of the United States”.

Emily Thornberry He announced that Labour was withdrawn from the competition to be the next leader. Inside A Post on Social Mediahe said:

I am very grateful to all workers who share their support.

But I decided to retreat.

It was a privilege to participate in this race with such bright women.

I will always be connected to this party and I will do everything I can to succeed.

On Tuesday, six deputies declared that they were standing in the competition, but when Alison McGovern published Labour’s latest nomination figures yesterday and last night, it was likely that only the two candidates would vote.

In order to be qualified, deputies must be nominated from at least 80 deputies. Bridget Phillipson passed this threshold and Lucy Powell seems to be sure that the candidates will reach this afternoon until 17.00 in the afternoon.

Here are the nomination figures published last night. Thornberry had the least support.

Bridget Phillipson: 116

Lucy Powell: 77

Bell Ribeiro-Ady: 15

Paula Barker: 14

Emily Thornberry: 13

Now that Thornberry has fallen, 13 deputies who nominated him are free to nominate one another.

Good morning. Keir Starmer knew that Peter Mandelson had made a long and close friendship with Jeffrey Epstein when he appointed Ambassador of Washingon. He also knew that Mandelson’s career was a scandal magnet for most. But Canterbury could not throw him the archbishop. Mandelson calculated that he would be the right person to establish a good relationship with the immoral Plutocrat narcissist, who is currently the United States (an old friend of Epstein), and Mandelson did this very successfully by all accounts.

But like Rowena Mason In the night story, Starmer is now under the pressure of abandoning the ambassador, because new revelations about his relationship with Epstein have made it difficult to defend – at least Mandelson continued to support him specially even after he faced charges for sex crimes.

Yesterday, the leftists Bell Ribeiro-Ady and Kim Johnson were about the only worker deputy who wanted Mandelson’s dismissal. However, this morning, in an interview with the program today, Andy McDonaldUnder the direction of Jeremy Corbyn and Starmer, a shadow cabinet Minister until 2021 said, saying that Mandelson should go immediately.

McDonald said program:

[Mandelson] He should go right away. His position is completely and completely defended and his / her duty causes the government and the Labor Party to damage more. I am afraid that if he does not do the right one and does not resign today, the Prime Minister must dismiss him.

Angela Rayner did the right thing. He was under pressure because he was accidentally unsuccessful not to pay taxes. This is on a completely different scale. He speaks about this morality and judiciary, and Peter Mandelson’s position needs to be completely defendable and must take action for his failures and take responsibility and take the political scene immediately.

More importantly, McDonald claimed that most of this or all workers’ deputies were the private opinion. When I was asked how many other workmanship deputies accepted what he said about Mandelson, McDonald replied:

100 %. People held their heads in their hands and I didn’t talk to anyone who supported Peter Mandelson. At the same party, as an association, it was widespread that we were brought under the microscope for something he did.

He should take responsibility for his actions and end it.

In the Labor Party, there is no one who supports Peter Mandelson today and should understand that if the Prime Minister hears it and weakens his position if he continues to support him. He cannot defend the debate.

McDonald replied when England was given to him that he was worth keeping Mandelson on duty because he helped him make positive decisions from the White House:

It must be a moral compass. There are women who have been damaged by the behavior of Epstein and their partners, and we should leave a marker in honor and say that it is completely and completely unacceptable.

And there will be results flowing from someone who has to fall into his swords and we will deal with it.

It will not remove the relationship between the United States and Britain. This will continue beyond the current prime minister and this president.

In part, this is only labor faction; The last collision in a war between Mandelson and the left since the 1980s. Mandelson said that he once wanted to refer Corbynite to a “sealed grave ve and left the leftists who returned in favor of MPs like McDonald. But that’s not just that. Opposition parties also demand Mandelson’s resignation and paper on the right Fire for him too.

It will be more and more than that day by day.

Here is the agenda of the day.

09.30: NHS UK is releasing the latest monthly performance figures.

9.45: Health Secretary Wes Streeting speaks at a policy in London.

10.3: Alan Campbell, the new leader of Commons, receives business questions in the room.

11.30: The Downing Street has a lobby briefing.

Afternoon: John Swinney, the first minister of Scotland, is receiving questions at Holyrood.

14:30: Defense Secretary John Healey speaks at the DSEI conference in London.

Afternoon: The new Prime Minister and the Secretary of Justice David Lammy is visiting a prison in South London.

17:00: Candidates for the Labor Party Assistant Leadership. As Jessica Elgot has reported, Bridget Phillipson will definitely be a candidate and probably only one deputy will be nominated – Lucy Powell.

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