In a functioning democracy, Keir Starmer’s position would today be untenable over his “weirdly rushed” appointments of disgraced friend-of-Epstein Peter Mandelson as UK ambassador to the US and as his top adviser. An investigation has uncovered the fact that Mandelson failed the vetting procedure for his short-lived ambassadorial role from which he was removed for his closeness to Israeli spy and serial child-rapist Jeffrey Epstein.

However, the Foreign Office overruled the security decision because Keir Starmer had already announced the appointment. Since then, the Starmer regime has engaged in a rolling cover-up to try to save Starmer’s job. Starmer’s Israel-linked chief of staff – and Mandelson protégé – Morgan McSweeney was also sacrificed in the attempt to protect his boss.

Mandelson was always clinging to power

Starmer’s decision to suspend national security rules to protect Mandelson was already exposed in March 2026. But the latest revelations show that the government knew full well that Mandelson had failed vetting and was unsuitable for the role – yet steamrolled the vetting to install Mandelson anyway, then lied repeatedly about it.

Mandelson had repeatedly leaked privileged and highly lucrative information to his paedophile pal.

Mandelson was denied clearance in late January 2025 after the completion of enhanced ‘developed vetting’ by security officials. Rather than wait until vetting was completed, Starmer had already announced his appointment as the UK’s ambassador to the US. To save Starmer’s blushes, the Foreign Office overrode the vetting outcome.

The government published a 147-page batch of files relating to Mandelson’s appointment. However, the release – controlled by a Starmer lackey – left out any mention of Mandelson failing vetting.

This was no doubt linked to the fact that in February 2026, Starmer said Mandelson had passed the vetting process, claiming the “intensive exercise gave him clearance”:

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For God’s sake man, go!

As the Guardian noted, the scandal is nowhere near finished unfolding:

Further files linked to Mandelson are due to be released, but The Guardian reported that top UK officials have been considering withholding the documents which would show the Labour peer failed security vetting.

However, leading figures in other parties are already demanding his resignation for lying to Parliament and the public. Green MP Sian Berry said:

Keir Starmer has lied and lied again over his decision to appoint Peter Mandelson and he must resign. Starmer told Parliament ‘due process’ had been followed. This report makes clear that was untrue.

Tory and Lib Dem leaders Kemi Badenoch and Ed Davey were, typically, more wishy-washy. Both said that ‘if’ Starmer has lied he must resign. That he lied is now beyond even the most stubborn doubt. If he fails to step down, it can only be yet another sign of how fundamentally untrustworthy the man who never saw a promise he wouldn’t break really and obviously is.

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