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PM’s supporters say new Left-wing agenda would require fresh mandate Daily Telegraph 06/02/26 A leadership coup by Angela Rayner would trigger a general election, Sir Keir Starmer’s allies warned rebels. Supporters of the Prime Minister said on Friday that Ms Rayner’s Left-wing policy platform would require her to obtain a new mandate from the British people. Ms Rayner, a former deputy prime minister, argued in 2022 that the Tories switching leaders from Boris Johnson to Liz Truss and then to Rishi Sunak required fresh elections. Sir Keir is facing questions about his future as leader after his judgment was called into question over his appointment of Lord Mandelson as ambassador to the US last year, despite the peer’s friendship with Jeffrey Epstein. Ms Rayner reportedly told friends she had warned Sir Keir not to appoint Lord Mandelson because of the public evidence of his friendship with the paedophile. Some Labour MPs have told The Telegraph that Sir Keir has three weeks ...

Daily Telegraph 06/02/26 Is it all over for Keir Starmer, one of Britain’s least popular Prime Ministers? His only hope may be that as Lord Mandelson’s egregious conduct becomes a police matter, it might buy Two-Tier a little time. If investigators don’t begin interviews until next week, he could limp through the weekend and vanish into recess, possibly on another of his foreign trips. After which the PLP will struggle to ditch him before May – even if Labour loses Gorton and Denton, as seems more than possible since blocking Andy Burnham’s attempt to stand as an MP. Today’s car crash press conference should have been a moment, finally, for at least a show of contrition. Instead, it was an exercise in misplaced indignation, Gollum-like self-pity, and the all-too-familiar lawyerly attempt to downplay the nature of Mandelson’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, even though far too much evidence of their friendship has long been in the public domain. In perhaps the worst display of bu...

The grotesque Mandelson scandal is an epoch-defining indictment of the Labour establishment Daily Telegraph 05/02/26 He is a pathological liar who sold out his country to a foreign paedophile, a sordid, venal Machiavelli who personifies the Dark Tetrad of psychological traits, the reason why Sir Keir Starmer is about to be booted out of Downing Street, but might Peter Mandelson have actually once told the truth? “Petey”, as his mentor Jeffrey Epstein nicknamed him, titled his autobiography The Third Man, perhaps alluding not just to his central role, alongside Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, in building New Labour, including its culture of spin and bullying, but also to the 1949 film noir of the same name, set in Allied-occupied Vienna. The film’s anti-hero, the “third man” in question, played by Orson Welles, was a chThe US Department of Justice emails implicate Mandelson in Britain’s greatest political scandal since the Profumo affair. Epstein was convicted in 2008 of procuring a c...

Prime Minister Keir Starmer is under pressure from Labour MPs to sack his chief of staff, Morgan McSweeney, over his role in the appointment of Peter Mandelson as US ambassador. politics Home 03/02/26 On Tuesday, Mandelson, who was a key figure in the New Labour administrations of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, announced that he was resigning from the House of Lords amid the growing scandal over his relationship with the paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein. The government has also given material to the police after newly disclosed files showed Mandelson sharing confidential and high-level UK government information with Epstein. The Met announced on Tuesday night that it was investigating Mandelson for misconduct in public office. While most Labour MP fury is directed toward Mandelson, there are also renewed calls for Starmer to remove McSweeney, who was instrumental in the decision to appoint him as the UK ambassador to the US. Starmer sacked Mandelson from his ambassador role in S...

Why did a party so assured of its own saintliness keep on resurrecting the scandal-prone ‘Prince of Darkness’? Spiked 03/02/25 To misquote Jeffrey Epstein, ‘Bad Petey’. We already knew from previous releases of the Epstein Files that Peter Mandelson was overly chummy with the world’s most notorious nonce. We’d seen the photos of Mandy in various Ken-like outfits chatting with his ‘best pal’. We’d read his birthday wishes to the dodgy financier who just loved to share his ‘glorious homes… with his friends (yum yum)’. And we knew that he’d urged Epstein to ‘fight for early release’ after his 2008 conviction for procuring a child for prostitution and of soliciting a prostitute. But now we know just how corrupt their relationship was, thanks to the latest dump from the Epstein files. First, we discovered that during the 2000s, Mandelson allegedly received three separate donations of $25,000 from Epstein, plus an extra £10,000 for Mandelson’s future husband, Reinaldo Avila da Silva, to...

Is Andy Burnham a power player? Or just playing at power? lowcstaus opinions blog 03/02/26 British politics is in a constant state of flux. Parties built on the backs of working men transition, seemingly overnight, into ideological playgrounds for an out of touch, gentrified, gender bending elite. Yesterday’s military heroes are hounded through the courts by a government which states that today its ‘highest priority’, is servicing the needs of foreign activists, who encourage their followers to kill white people, police officers, and Jews. Weirdo insurgent parties run by gap toothed boob boosters and economically illiterate communists swoop in from nowhere, to gobble up millions of votes. And the once dependable Conservative Party, burns through useless, clueless Prime Ministers, faster than Bonnie Blue burns through paramours. It’s an ever shifting political landscape, dynamic, distracting, dizzying, and discombobulating. But however confusing things get, there is one rock,...

Dan Norris had whip removed last year after original arrest on suspicion of historical child sex offence Telegraph Reporters 02 February 2026 2:10pm GMT The suspended Labour MP Dan Norris has been further arrested on suspicion of rape, sexual assault, voyeurism and upskirting. The 66-year-old MP for North East Somerset and Hanham was suspended by the Labour Party and had the whip in the Commons removed last year after his original arrest on suspicion of historical child sex offences. Avon and Somerset police said it began investigating a man in his 60s in December 2024. He was initially arrested in April last year on suspicion of sexual offences against a girl, rape, child abduction and misconduct in public office. He has now been further arrested on suspicion of rape against a second woman, sexual assault against a third woman, and voyeurism and upskirting against a number of women. ‘Sensitive and complex’ investigations An Avon and Somerset Police spokesman said: “We are no l...