Starmer has spoken for the first time since sacking Peter Mandelson. He says he “wouldn’t have appointed” him as US ambassador “if I knew then what I know now.” The Trump state visit will be fun…
He told Sky News:
“Had I known then what I know now, I’d have never appointed him. I knew that questions had been put to Peter that he had not yet answered. Um, and he hadn’t answered them by the time it got to PMQs. There is, of course, a time lag in America, but I knew that there were questions that have been put to him, but I didn’t know what answers he was going to give to those questions.”
Starmer stood up at PMQs last week, declaring he had “full confidence” in Mandelson, knowing that there were more “very embarrassing” revelations to come about the relationship with Epstein and that the Foreign Office was investigating new emails. Starmer’s spokesman insisted this morning that the PM did not know or ask about the content. How can you declare full confidence in someone without knowing all the details?
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