Keir Starmer leaves 10 Downing Street.A Labour MP has declared “people don’t like” Keir Starmer as the party slumped to fourth place in a new opinion poll.
Sarah Champion delivered the damning verdict as the prime minister fights for his political life over the latest revelations about Peter Mandelson’s appointment as the UK’s ambassador to Washington.
It emerged last week that Starmer was not told by Foreign Office civil servants that Mandelson had failed security vetting to take up the post.
In the Commons on Monday, the prime minister said that “beggars belief”, but also admitted he had been wrong to appoint Mandelson in the first place.
The shamed former Labour peer was sa...
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