Keir Starmer and the Labour Party are rotten to the core, with no integrity or moral compass. From defending the appalling behaviour of Peter Mandelson to backing Angela Rayner over her property tax scandal, Labour are unfit to govern. If Starmer had a backbone or an ounce of decency he would have sacked Mandelson as British Ambassador to the US over his close relationship with paedophile Jeffrey Epstein as soon as the disgusting revelations about their friendship were made public.
It is unbelievable that a PM would spend so much effort defending Mandelson but Starmer prioritised doing this over any moral and compassionate consideration for the many victims of Epstein’s sickening abuse. Britain has a proud record of standing up to protect the rights of women and girls and defend them from sexual violence across the globe but Starmer has damaged our nation’s credibility and long-standing work in this area.
Time after time, the British people have seen Starmer’s atrocious judgment. His approach to dealing with every political scandal – ranging from law-breaking, to corruption to tax avoidance – is to stick his head in the sand, defend his corrupt friends and hope the issue will go away.
Rather than adhere to the fundamental principles of serving your country and upholding standards, Starmer and his facile coterie of ministers brazenly defended Mandelson’s conduct and position. Just as he did with Rayner over her misleading and inconsistent statements about her under-payment of property taxes.
Despite hypocritically lecturing us in his haughty lefty lawyerly manner about the so-called high standards he would bring to
public office as PM, he went out of his way to defend Mandelson. Let’s be clear what Starmer did. He repeatedly expressed confidence in Mandelson, and sycophantic ministers and MPs were wheeled out to defend Starmer’s judgment, right up until moments before Mandelson was finally sacked. And rather than have the courage to come to the Commons to make the announcement himself, spineless Starmer pushed out a junior minister.
That cowardly conduct has consequences for Britain’s standing in the world. At the very moment Mandelson’s disgrace was unfolding, Europe was reminded of the danger on our doorstep. Russian drones crossed into Polish airspace, testing NATO’s defences and probing the West’s resolve.
For a country that has committed to defend every inch of NATO territory, this should have been a moment for Britain to show absolute clarity and strength alongside our allies. Instead, Starmer was consumed by political chaos of his own making, too busy defending Mandelson rather than facing down our adversaries in Moscow.
As if losing his ambassador were not bad enough, Starmer has thrown the very department that is meant to represent the UK abroad, the Foreign Office, into turmoil with a reshuffle of his Foreign Secretary and senior ministers.
When Britain’s global standing needs heft, respect, authority and conviction, Starmer has given the world Yvette Cooper, the woman who hid in her last job, who voted against tough measures to tackle illegal migration and spent her time in opposition making discourteous statements about President Donald Trump and even our partnership with our Commonwealth ally Rwanda. This is not a serious government. It lurches from chaos to crisis on a near-weekly basis. Its ministers don’t have the skills or aptitude to deliver on the policies required to build a successful economy and country for the future, as they are consumed with securing their own positions.
This week Britain will welcome our closest ally, the President of the United States. It’s a showcase moment for Britain’s leadership on the world stage, cementing our partnership and demonstrating the strength and value of our special relationship. Yet Starmer enters that moment having lost his ambassador to Washington following the disgraceful revelations.
To lose your chief diplomat in America on the eve of such a visit is catastrophic. It signals to Washington, and to the world, that Britain under Labour is unstable and unprofessional. Starmer’s response to the Mandelson scandal, along with his failure to sack Rayner, has shown the British public that our country is led by a PM who is incapable of standing up to scrutiny. Such a lack of moral integrity has shown exactly why Starmer is unfit to govern our great country.