Sir Keir Starmer has clung on to his premiership after his whole Cabinet were strong-armed into backing his leadership. Daily Telegraph 09/02/26 Every member of Sir Keir’s top team publicly voiced their support within just over an hour of Anas Sarwar, the Scottish Labour leader, calling for Sir Keir to resign. Ministers were ordered by Downing Street to tweet their support for Sir Keir in an attempt to quell the Labour rebellion, The Telegraph understands. Special advisers in No 10, who are directly appointed by the Prime Minister, called ministers this afternoon to ask them to tweet their support. Cabinet members were the first to tweet their support, at the same time as Mr Sarwar was delivering a speech calling for Sir Keir’s departure. Posts endorsing the Prime Minister from more junior ministers and backbenchers came later. Sir Keir will attempt to shore up his premiership when he faces his backbenchers at a meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party tonight. Mr Sarwar has...
Breaking news......... Morgan McSweeney has resigned as Sir Keir Starmer’s chief of staff in the wake of the Mandelson scandal. The Prime Minister’s right-hand man quit after a backlash to him pushing for Lord Mandelson to be appointed ambassador to the US. Mr McSweeney insisted Lord Mandelson was the best man for the job in Washington despite being warned twice by civil servants about the peer’s ties to Jeffrey Epstein. The resignation will be seen as a final chance for Sir Keir to reverse his political fortunes after more than a year and a half of his political authority draining away. Lord Mandelson was appointed despite Downing Street knowing about his ongoing friendship with the paedophile even after Epstein was convicted of child sex crimes. Fresh revelations about the connections between the two men have plunged Sir Keir into the worst crisis of his premiership. Mutinous Labour MPs had threatened to back a leadership challenge against the Prime Minister if he refused to g...