Labour MPs Call on Starmer to Step Down over Epstein Scandal
Several MPs from the ruling left-wing Labor Party have called on Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer to resign following the resignation of his chief of staff following the appointment of Lord Peter Mandelson as US ambassador, despite knowing of his links to convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
Blood has flowed in the waters of Westminster after Prime Minister Starmer was deeply politically wounded this week following his stunning admission in the House of Commons that he knew that Peter “Prince of Darkness” Mandelson – a long-time Labor operative and power behind Tony Blair’s throne – had continued his relationship with Epstein after the infamous financier served a prison sentence for child sex offences.
As part of their close ties, Mandelson apparently provided confidential government information to Epstein during the 2008 financial crisis that could be used to mislead the market, according to documents released by the US DOJ, which sparked a Metropolitan Police investigation this week.
On Sunday, Starmer’s powerful chief of staff and anti-Breitbart censorship campaigner Morgan McSweeney attempted to sacrifice himself to save the government, while taking “full responsibility” for advising the prime minister to appoint Mandelson to the critical diplomatic post in Washington.
However, after years of Labor’s methodical and brutal takeover, during which many influential rivals on the party’s hard left wing were either purged or sidelined, the knives appear to be coming out of its restless backbenches for Starmer.
Liverpool West Derby Labor MP Ian Byrne said The telegraph: “This will not stop with one resignation. A real change of political direction must now come and be led from the top.
“The Prime Minister must now think honestly about his own position and ask himself whether, for the good of the country and the Labor Party, he should follow McSweeney’s lead.”
Brian Leishman, Labor MP for Alloa and Grangemouth, said: “There needs to be a change in policy direction and it’s coming from the top, so the Prime Minister needs to look at his own position and ask himself whether he should follow McSweeney’s lead one last time and resign for the good of the country and the Labor Party.
Another Labor MP, speaking anonymously to the newspaper, predicted that Starmer would be seen as “the worst prime minister in the history of the Labor Party”, saying: “He is a coward who refuses to take responsibility for his own actions. He is a man of moral gravity, from whom neither decency, honesty or integrity can escape. A real disaster for this country and for the Labor movement.”
For his part, Prime Minister Starmer has attempted to rally the party against the prospect of losing power to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party, which has held a commanding lead in the polls over the past year amid Labor’s struggles to manage the Channel migrant crisis and improve the country’s economic well-being.
Starmer presented himself this week as the last man to defend the multicultural, pro-diversity globalist project in the face of the anti-mass migration movement led by Farage.
It remains to be seen whether this will be enough to quell anger among rank-and-file Labor MPs, many of whom have expressed outrage at being linked to the Epstein scandal by Starmer’s decision to appoint Mandelson as US ambassador.
A Downing Street spokesperson said Starmer would address the nation on Monday, saying in a statement: “The Prime Minister recognizes the need for the Government to tackle the issues highlighted by Mandelson’s revelations.
“Work began last week on this matter. The Prime Minister has asked officials to act quickly to make changes. He hopes to inform the country tomorrow.”
Some have suggested that the government should abandon the “New Labour” philosophy developed by Mandelson and others in the Tony Blair era and revived by McSweeney and Starmer.
Lord Maurice Glasman, the founder of Blue Labor, a faction that advocates for the party to return its focus to working-class issues, said on Sunday that he had advised against hiring Mandelson and that the outcome was inevitable given the foundations of New Labor’s ideology.
Speaking to Sky News, Lord Glasman said the party must “repent” of the “sin” of “love of globalization” and the “cult of success and money”, which he argued New Labor represents in conjunction with “Maoist managerialism” like Mandelson.
“The Labor Party must repent and reject New Labor as a foreign body that has taken over the party. And that is where it is leading: perversion and pedophilia.”
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