I can't see him resigning and I doubt his unpopularity can increase much anyway.
He does seem stuck between a rock and a hard place on this though.
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Keir Starmer battles calls to resign over Peter Mandelson vetting
Badenoch said she did not believe Starmer’s account that he found out only on Tuesday that Mandelson had failed a security vetting check in January 2025, before his ill-fated appointment as UK ambassador to Washington.
“All roads lead to a resignation,” Badenoch said. “It doesn’t matter what story the PM is telling — at some point there is deliberate dishonesty.”
Senior British politicians seldom directly accuse opponents of lying, but Badenoch took the gloves off. She suggested Starmer could not be trusted to tell the truth, even on issues such as the war with Iran. “What else is he lying about?” she said on the BBC.
Her attack raises the pressure on Starmer, whose defence in the Mandelson case rests on his assertion that he was kept in the dark about the security vetting failure by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office.
Sir Olly Robbins, head of the FCDO, was sacked on Thursday night after Starmer “lost confidence” in him, as the prime minister shifted the blame. Morgan McSweeney, Starmer’s former chief of staff, has already quit over the Mandelson affair.
Starmer was said to have been “furious” to learn about the vetting failure this week, apparently only discovering what had happened as officials prepared to release documents about Mandelson’s appointment to parliament.
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