The Peter Mandelson appointment as the UK’s ambassador to the US and then the Jeffrey Epstein files revealing potentially illegal activity when the former peer was the Business Secretary to Gordon Brown has rocked the government.
On Sunday Sir Keir Starmer’s chief of staff Morgan McSweeney resigned and on Monday the Prime Minister’s director of communications Tim Allan resigned.
Starmer is fighting for his political career and there is growing calls for him to resign and more than 50% of Brits want him gone also.
Former BBC political journalist and presenter Andrew Marr has predicted that Starmer will only last a matter of “days” as he is under constant pressure to resign.
Speaking to LBC radio, Marr was asked if Starmer has a chance to continue at the helm now his “right hand had been severed” amid McSweeney’s resignation.
Marr said, “I think it’s over for Keir Starmer. I would not be surprised to see him resign quite quickly now.”
He added, “If he decides to dig in and carry on it’s going to be an utterly miserable experience for him. There has to be a way out.”
Marr said he believes it is “over for Starmer” and said he could be gone “in days,” adding he was “never remotely a good enough politician for the job.”
There will be a left-wing candidate, probably Angela Rayner, and there will be a right-wing candidate, probably Wes Streeting.”
Long-term Starmer critic Brian Leishman told the Press Association, “Morgan McSweeney’s resignation as Chief of Staff to the Prime Minister is in the best interests of the Government. He was at the heart of the political misjudgements and errors that have been made since winning the general election.
“It is also in the best interests of the Labour Party, as he was instrumental in the lack of internal democracy and the culture of intense factionalism we are suffering from.
There must be a change in political direction and that comes from the very top, so the Prime Minister must look at his own position and question whether he should follow McSweeney’s lead one last time, and resign for the good of the country and the Labour Party.
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