Sir Keir Starmer finds it staggering that he wasn't informed about the results of Mandelson's security vetting.
I find it staggering that he was even considered for the post

Better than last 5 PMs?
Not setting the bar very high are you, John?
... and I'm not sure how true it is either

If Labour WANT a Reform government, then they should keep on as they are

You can actually see the moment Ed Miliband thinks, what's the point burning through whatever political credibility I've got left energetically defending a man who's going to be gone in a matter of weeks.

Yes, but the only people who could get rid of him have a vested interest in keeping him in place, so they can continue with their graft & quite possibly avoid jail time - he's going nowhere soon
... and Vance would be even worse

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Burning wood for power worse for climate than gas equivalent, report finds - no shit!
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Exactly - I guess that the Civil Service also hasn't informed the PM that the Pope is a catholic, not what bears do in the woods

Are we seriously expected to believe that the government had no inkling that Mandelson might not be a 100% straight die, before appointing him?
- Because absolutely everyone else in the country knew

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What he has said & what the Mail/Spectator report that he has said are often very different.
Recently he said that we should talk to Putin, even though the probability of success would be low & even though he cannot be trusted. Somehow only the first part got reported

Policy is decided by the members not the leader. Polanski also hasn't said that the UK should withdraw. He has said that the US under Trump is an unreliable ally & we should look to build alternative defence partnerships, but at the moment NATO is the only game in town

It's also not Green Party policy

When traveling around Europe I rarely have to think about taking my passport or changing money, except when I travel to the UK

Who believes in this faux outrage about not being told that Mandelson had failed vetting?
Who in the right mind would have imagined that he could have passed?
Starmer knew he was a wrong 'un, but appointed him anyway - not despite him being a crook, but because

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Quite. Given his history, why was he even under consideration?
Why wasn't it suspected that it was likely that he wouldn't pass vetting?
Unless they knew he wouldn't & didn't care

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No 10 knew Mandelson failed security vetting seven months ago The Independent put revelations that Peter Mandelson had failed MI6 vetting for the US ambassador role to Downing Street in September – but a ‘furious’ Sir Keir insists he did not know until this week

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I will also vote Green, as I also did at the last, but I think the country would be better off with different leadership before then

As several have already asked, when was it ravelled?
The only people who could get rid of him have a vested interest in keeping him in place, so they can continue with their graft & quite possibly avoid jail time - he's going nowhere soon

Of course Farage will raise a fuss - so what?

In a time of crisis we need competent leadership. This is just the latest example of the opposite.
21 months of a 170+ majority & were no better off than under Sunak
There's never a good time for a leadership swap - better sooner than later

Labour has a huge majority - there won't be an early election, whether or not Starmer resigns, no matter what happens in the May elections and no matter what Farage has to say about it

He won't survive, nor should he

The famously anti-Labour Guardian? 🤨
No PMs have ever had such historically low approval numbers less than 2 years into their first term

But I guess it's academic. If he survives this, he won't survive the mauling Labour are about to get in the upcoming elections

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So he took a risk in appointing a notorious liar, twice fired for contravening the ministerial code & friend of Jeffrey Epstein to one of the most sensitive diplomatic posts & then looks surprised when it turns out he didn't pass his security vetting?

Or are you saying the Tories & Farage were just as bad?
Well excuse me, but I expected a Labour PM to be better than them

So that makes it OK???