“Twenty-eight, twenty-nine, thirty!” Al Carns, a junior defence minister and a colonel in the Royal Marines, polished off the pull-ups with ease. The fireman he had challenged on camera was defeated. Military men hold a mysterious allure within British politics. People mention Mr Carns as a future Labour leader, even though he entered Parliament only … Read more
“The distraction has to end and the leadership in Downing Street has to change,” said Anas Sarwar, the leader of Scottish Labour, on February 9th. He is the most senior figure in the party to call for Sir Keir Starmer to resign after a bruising few days during which Morgan McSweeney, the prime minister’s chief … Read more
“RESTORING TRUST in politics is the great test of our era,” Sir Keir Starmer writes in the foreword to Britain’s Ministerial Code. He nevertheless chose to appoint someone with the epithet “The Prince of Darkness” as Britain’s ambassador to America, reckoning that Peter Mandelson, a political grandee and consummate networker, would help smooth relations with … Read more
Prime Minister Keir Starmer Wednesday said he regretted naming Peter Mandelson as ambassador to the US, following fresh allegations about the disgraced envoy’s close ties to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Keir Starmer’s government agreed to submit to the parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee all documents in connection to the appointment, following growing anger … Read more