Brown: Starmer is an honest man but faces serious workload amid leadership speculation
as the speculations are over Starmer’s Future as Prime Minister continues, brown has come to his defense, saying “Honest Man”.
But he acknowledged that Starmer faces “Serious” Fighting to keep your job.
“I mean, there’s always speculation. It happened to me, it happened to Tony Blair. It happens to everybody about how their future should be assessed,” he told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.
“But it is serious, and the task is very clear. The task is that we have to clean up the system, clean up the system completely, eliminate corruption and unethical behavior. And if we don’t do that, we will have to pay a heavy price.”
When asked if Starmer was the right person to lead the country, he said: “I can look in his eyes and I can see that he is an honest person. He wants to do the right things.
“Maybe he’s been too slow to do the right thing, but he’s got to do the right thing now, and judge what he does based on what happens over the next few months when he tries to do that, and I believe (he) will try to clean up the system.”
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A Labor minister has produced and reviewed a report on journalists investigating think tanks that would help bring Keir Starmer to power in 2023The Guardian has learned.
According to sources and documents seen by the Guardian, the research was paid for and later reviewed by Josh Simons, now a minister in the Cabinet Office, when he was director of Labor Together.
Simmons is close to the prime minister’s chief of staff, Morgan McSweeney, who previously ran Labor Together and whose own role in a material-gathering operation on journalists is under investigation.
In an agreement addressed to Simons drafted by PR firm APCO Worldwide, the firm agreed to “investigate the sourcing, funding and origins” of a November 2023 Sunday Times report about the thinktank, in addition to other journalistic investigations into the group.
The agreement stated that APCO would “establish who and what are behind the coordinated attacks on Labor Together”.
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Kim Johnson says Starmer’s situation is ‘irreparable’
Many Labor MPs believe it is a matter of when, not if. starmer Prime Minister will step down, one backbencher said as to his position “incorrigible”.
“I think he needs to seriously consider his position,” Kim Johnsonthe Labor MP for Liverpool Riverside told Times Radio.
“He is on the ropes and we have to think about the benefit of the country and the party. We have to consider the possibility of what could happen, the stability of the country could be at risk.”
Renner warns Starmer not to appoint Mandelson – report
angela rainerReportedly Starmer’s former deputy Told the Prime Minister that Mandelson should not be appointed As US Ambassador.
Rayner, who left the government last year over the stamp duty dispute, told friends he had privately warned starmer According to The Times, it would be a mistake to appoint Mandelson because of his ties to Epstein.
Renner is widely seen as a potential successor to Starmer, but is said to not want to be the one launching a challenge against the prime minister, The Times reports.
Brown says Epstein’s alleged leak could cause huge business damage
brown Market-sensitive government information states that mandelson Epstein allegedly leaked This could have caused “huge commercial losses”.
The former prime minister, who appointed Mandelson as business secretary in his government in 2008, said he felt “Shocked, saddened, angry, betrayed, disappointed”.
“This was economically secret information, it meant that because of it Britain was at risk, the currency was at risk, some of the trading that would occur as a result of it would be speculative and There is no doubt that huge commercial losses could have been caused and probably did occur.” Brown told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.
It comes as liberal democrat The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the UK financial regulator, has been urged to immediately investigate Mandelson, citing apparent leaks This may have encouraged insider trading.
Daisy CooperThe St Albans MP and deputy leader of the Lib Dems wrote to the FCA that sharing confidential information with a private financier “could have easily led to unfair and lucrative benefits in the financial markets, either by Epstein or by his associates”.
Our Banking Correspondent Kaleyna Makortoof There’s more on this story below:
Police executed search warrants at two properties linked to Mandelson As part of an investigation into “misconduct in public office offences”. Officers searched a house near Regent’s Park in central London and a property in Wiltshire on Friday. Mandelson has been living in a rented property in Wiltshire since being sacked as ambassador to the US over links to a late convicted pedophile.
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Brown: Starmer is an honest man but faces serious workload amid leadership speculation
as the speculations are over Starmer’s Future as Prime Minister continues, brown has come to his defense, saying “Honest Man”.
But he acknowledged that Starmer faces “Serious” Fighting to keep your job.
“I mean, there’s always speculation. It happened to me, it happened to Tony Blair. It happens to everybody about how their future should be assessed,” he told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.
“But it is serious, and the task is very clear. The task is that we have to clean up the system, clean up the system completely, eliminate corruption and unethical behavior. And if we don’t do that, we will have to pay a heavy price.”
When asked if Starmer was the right person to lead the country, he said: “I can look in his eyes and I can see that he is an honest person. He wants to do the right things.
“Maybe he’s been too slow to do the right thing, but he’s got to do the right thing now, and judge what he does based on what happens over the next few months when he tries to do that, and I believe (he) will try to clean up the system.”
Gordon Brown says there is systemic failure in government to carry out proper investigations
former prime minister gordon brown said there was a ‘Systemic failure’ The way senior appointments are made in the government.
while he believed Starmer Was “Misled and deceived” By mandelson When appointing him as US Ambassador he said that “it was not a sufficient explanation for what happened”.
“There is a systemic failure to conduct proper investigations, Going through the appropriate processes and indeed, in my view, what public hearings should be like for anyone coming into a senior position representing the British Government,” he said on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.
Writing in the Guardian, Brown said Mandelson “deeply regrets” making Mandelson a peer and bringing him back into government in 2008 As Business Secretary. He said he was told at the time that Mandelson’s record as EU Trade Commissioner was “spotless” and that he was not aware of any Epstein links.
“No one can say that I promoted her out of partisanship,” he wrote. “I did this despite her being anything but a friend to me, because I felt that her undeniable knowledge of Europe and beyond could help us deal with the global financial crisis.
“Now I know I was wrong.”
You can read Brown’s opinion in full here:
PM says ‘significant amount of material’ must be reviewed before Mandelson documents are released
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Prime Minister keir starmer one said “Very significant amount of material” related to the appointment of peter mandelson As Britain’s ambassador to the US, any documents will need to be reviewed before they can be issued.
Starmer believes the documents It would prove that Mandelson lied about the extent of her relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. During the vetting process before being given the top diplomatic post in Washington last year.
The Prime Minister had previously said he wanted to release the documents soon and raise it at PMQs, but was advised by police that doing so could risk prejudicing future investigations or the legal process.
Parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC), a cross-party group of MPs and peers with access to highly sensitive information, will play a role in vetting emails, messages and documents before they are released into the public domain, which could number in the thousands.
Starmer wrote a letter to Lord Beamish, chairman of the ISC, saying: “It is important that the documents are made available to Parliament as soon as possible, given that it is likely to contain a very significant amount of material that will need to be reviewed to establish whether it is within the scope of the document.”
This has done nothing to reduce anger among Labor MPs over the handling of the scandal, Some people publicly suggested that the Prime Minister should consider his position, while also There were calls for him to fire his chief of staff Morgan McSweeney, Who played a key role in the decision to appoint Mandelson as US Ambassador.
Meanwhile, Scotland Yard said inquiries are continuing Police searched two properties linked to Mandelson As part of an investigation into claims that she gave market-sensitive information to Epstein.
former prime minister gordon brown he has said He “deeply regretted” making Mandelson a peer and appointing him to a ministerial post in 2008. Writing in the Guardian, Brown said that the news that Mandelson was passing information to Epstein while he was Business Secretary “It’s a betrayal of everything we stand for as a country”.
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