Keir Starmer must resign
Responding to Keir Starmer’s shocking press conference, Scottish Green MSP Patrick Harvie has urged the PM to take responsibility for his actions and resign.
Patrick said:
“Keir Starmer has shown catastrophic judgement and his position is completely untenable. It is clear that his time is up. It is not a matter of if he will resign over this, it is only a question of when.
“Ambassador to the US is one of the most senior diplomatic appointments the Prime Minister controls. If Keir Starmer trusted the assurances of a man like Peter Mandelson, who had been forced to resign from government multiple times, then he is either too gullible to be PM or he is too incompetent.
“This issue is not going to go away. With more revelations every day, it will only get worse. How much longer will the Prime Minister drag it out for and how much lower will he sink?”
Patrick added:
“Every Labour MP must consider the responsibility they have now. This issue goes beyond the specific actions of Peter Mandelson.
“It’s impossible to avoid the suspicion that he wasn’t appointed despite his links to Epstein - but because of them. Labour wanted an Ambassador who was comfortable in the company of a corrupt, dishonest sexual abuser because they knew that’s exactly what Donald Trump is.
“When it came to Washington, Downing Street wanted someone with no shame, someone who had shown that they were already in the moral gutter, where Donald Trump and his far right government operate. A Prime Minister who has made that kind of choice simply cannot be trusted with power.”