Politics latest: Starmer ‘upbeat’ and will not resign today says Number 10 – after losing two top aides in 24 hours

https://news.sky.com/story/politics-latest-mandelson-starmer-mcsweeney-epstein-files-labour-leader-12593360

Posted by spazbarracuda

37 Comments

  1. Antique_Historian_74 on

    Keir Starmer has declared he has complete faith in Keir Starmer.

    Labour insiders expect the campaign for a new leader to start by Thursday.

  2. His communications team has been rubbish anyway so this may work out better for him.
    We’ve finally got some stability, he should only resign if the committee find he overlooked evidence. I don’t understand why the media are all campaigning for his resignation- that should make us all suspicious. 

  3. Sensitive-Finding467 on

    Good, the country needs stability, not a revolving door of PM’s like the last lot.

    Let him face due process if he has done anything wrong, otherwise let him crack on with the job.

  4. There have been a series of failings here but I remain completely unconvinced that going back to the Tory-era revolving door of PMs is the answer. It didn’t serve us well then, it won’t serve us well now. I certainly don’t trust the media’s judgement on this either, given it’s quite obvious where their motives are.

  5. I’ve heard people saying the Uks economy and job market is getting better, is that true?

  6. Why is Labour getting more media hate than Reform, whos leader and MPs are mentioned far more times than even Kier himself.

    Oh wait the media is owned by the rich and they want to remain in power. How’d i forget that little fact

  7. There’s zero stability in politics anymore. I’m very bored of this constant merry-go-round of PMs we’ve had since Cameron, and the constant back-stabbing everyone does. When you can’t maintain unity in any political parties whatsoever, then how to you expect the country to unite behind anything at all. The only party that is united is Reform, and they’re united by hate! The problem is more and more people become susceptible to that type of messaging when all they see are other parties constantly fighting each other and end up tarring them with the same brush. So they then look for something different.

    People are tired of constant turmoil and are looking for stability and this isn’t it.

  8. FreshAnimator1452 on

    Considering that every time he has to come out and said he has ‘full confidence’ in one of his advisors or ministers, they resign shortly after…

    I wouldn’t take any full confidence he indicates to have in himself at face value

  9. FabianTheArachnid on

    As much as I’m not a massive Starmer fan it’ll be mad if Eptstein causes his demise and not that of Trump, who appears to be an actual fucking pedo

  10. We don’t need a revolving door of PMs, I think pragmatically we need a stable government and he’s been much better than recent versions. Absolutely there’s a lot of room for improvement, maybe there’s a chance now for a better comms strategy and refocusing

  11. I agree with not resigning over this.

    It’s subjective, but my take is that both Starmer is the best Prime Minister in the last 10 years, and that the bar is so low that a traffic cone could be too.

    If we set the morality now that a bad appointment is cause for resigning, we have no idea or guarantee when will be the next time that we have a PM who will have the same level of decorum. PM Farage would never resign over corruption, treason, pedophilia rings, country sabotaging, or national asset striping matters.

  12. 99thLuftballon on

    I’m not sure why, every time someone shit has to resign, it’s treated as a huge personal disaster for Starmer.

    When the director of the BBC was forced out by Trump, people acted as though it were the apocalypse, despite the BBC having been a right wing PR platform since David Cameron replaced the board with tory stooges. A change in BBC leadership is drastically needed.

    Now, right-wing strategy chief McSweeney, protégé of bizarre right-wing entryist Maurice Glasman and driving force behind most of Starmer’s unpopular or ridiculously partisan actions, has gone.

    Also, the head of Labour communications – the department most regularly identified as completely ineffectual – has resigned too.

    How is this not just people who are rubbish being weeded out?

  13. Inside_Swimming9552 on

    Why is him resigning even on the table? Because someone in his cabinet turned out to be dodgy?

    If that’s the metric we wouldn’t keep a PM for more than a week in this country. Morality and politicians go hand in hand like tuna and jellybeans. So if we have a PM who seems to be trying to do the right thing, was a human rights lawyer and appears to be clean. We shouldn’t be looking to kick him out because of the pieces of shit he inevitably finds himself surrounded by.

  14. King_CurlySpoon on

    Good, look I’m not the biggest Starmer fan but as long as he’s in Downing Street, Farage isn’t, I see that as a win, Kier is by far the lesser of two evils

  15. ApprehensiveDare2649 on

    Utter lunacy if Starmer goes over the Epstein files when the people actually in it seem to be getting a free pass.

  16. It’s insane that he has to keep saying he’s not going to resign over small bumps, and it’s all thanks to the tories throwing people at the pm role to see what worked.

    Stop expecting him to resign over bullshit.

  17. CharmingTurnover8937 on

    The comments here are amusing. If he was a Tory or part of Reform, you would all want him gone.

    Typical Reddit. Hypocrites.

  18. FutilePenguins on

    Good! While I disagree with parts of what the government are doing, we definitely need stability over anything else

  19. SurpriseCentres7551 on

    Eh, I think he’s safe now if Labour can resist the urge to eat their own (actually… nvm)

  20. CthulhusEvilTwin on

    So he’s effectively on a political suicide watch now then? Great, marvellous, smashing…just what we need.

  21. Secure_Fall_420 on

    Why do all the comments say he shouldn’t resign! He’s shown he has terrible judgement and should not be making major decisions that affect this country if he thinks it is suitable to promote a close friend of a convicted child sex trafficker to a position of diplomatic importance just because they said “trust me bro I wasn’t even good friends with him” when it was already public knowledge that Mandleson was good friends with Epstein. You cannot trust someone to make important decisions on our future if they take everything someone says at face value and disregard any actual evidence. 

    The Tory’s did it therefore Labour can’t do it is such a dumb reason for allowing the PM to appoint someone he knew was friends with Epstein to a position of power. Grow up.

  22. ‘My ‘I will not resign today’ T-shirt is prompting a lot of questions already answered by my T-shirt’

  23. GreyFoxNinjaFan on

    Wonder if this will be a defining moment for him. Hope so. We need stability and some scandal-free time.

  24. Christ the extreme levels of hyperbole being thrown about by opposition and the media is insane.

    I’m no Starmer fan, but calm down.

  25. Not the biggest fan but happily keep a bit of stability… And someone not mentioned in the Epstein files!

  26. Disillusioned_Pleb01 on

    Resigning will only roll out the carpet for reform while moving Labour further left, which must be the voices from within

  27. Emotional_Bed6766 on

    3 more years of Labour, then another 12 after that please. Anything to keep the Tories away ❤️