Labour Peer Becomes Most Senior Person In Party To Call For Starmer's Resignation

Maurice Glasman said the PM must step down if he can't "own" his mistakes.

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A Labour peer has called for Keir Starmer to resign over the Peter Mandelson scandal.

Maurice Glasman has become the most senior figure within the party to urge the prime minister to resign, claiming he “cannot conceivably continue” in the job.

It comes after it emerged Mandelson – Starmer’s pick to be the UK’s ambassador to the US – failed security vetting last year.

The Foreign Office then overrode the security advice not to hire the ex-Labour peer and gave Mandelson the plum job in........

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