The Prime Minister is fighting for survival on Thursday as there have been so many calls from opposition MPs and Labour backbenchers for him to resign.
Sir Keir Starmer has said he is “sorry” for believing that Peter Mandelson’s “lies” and appointing him as the UK’s ambassador to the US.
Starmer delivered a speech in East Sussex on Thursday insisting he was provided with information over the “depth and darkness” of Mandelson’s relationship with convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
The Prime Minister insists that the relationship between Mandelson and the former disgraced financier, Epstein was “not known.”
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Starmer looking nervous said, “I am sorry. Sorry for what was done to you, sorry that so many people with power failed you.
“Sorry for having believed Mandelson’s lies and appointed him and sorry that even now you are forced to watch this story unfold in public once again.
“But I also want to say this, in this country we will not look away, we will not shrug our shoulders and we will not allow the powerful to treat justice as optional.
“We will pursue the truth, we will uphold the integrity of public life and we will do everything within our power and the interests of justice to ensure accountability is delivered.”
The Tory leader Kemi Badenoch said that the Prime Minister keeps making the “wrong decision again and again.”
Badenoch said, “At a time when Britain needs a leader, we have a Prime Minister who makes the wrong decision again and again.
“For months, I have been pressing the Prime Minister about his decision to appoint Peter Mandelson as ambassador and yesterday in Parliament, I finally forced him to admit the shocking truth.”
“Instead of standing up and taking full responsibility for this disastrous appointment, the Prime Minister is trying to make himself out to be the victim,” Mrs Badenoch added.
“Nobody is buying it. This morning, cabinet ministers are out there defending the decision to appoint Peter Mandelson, still claiming it was a rational appointment. They should be ashamed.”
The Tory leader is calling on Labour MPs to now make a vote of no confidence in the Prime Minister over his own action and “do the right thing.”
Badenoch said, “It is now up to Labour MPs to do the right thing.
“I know there are many of them who are horrified by what has happened. We saw that in the House of Commons just yesterday.
“They might now expect the Prime Minister to take responsibility, but we know he won’t.
“He will have to be dragged out of No10. So, I am making them an offer: if they want the change they know the country needs, come and talk to my whips and lets talk seriously about a vote of no confidence to force the moment.”
Badenoch fumed, “Britain is not being governed.
“Last night in Downing Street, what were Keir Starmer and his team doing? They were not thinking about the future of Nato, they were not up late talking about sorting out the cost of living, they were not planning how to re-industrialise Britain with cheaper energy, they were yet again desperately ringing around labour MPs trying to save his job.”
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