If you thought the Lord Mandelson scandal was Keir Starmer’s fault – considering he appointed the disgraced peer as US ambassador in the full knowledge of his intimate relationship with a convicted peado – you haven’t read your FT this morning. A hilarious long read blames everyone but Starmer himself…
The pink’un reports:
“The idea was that someone with a hotline to Number 10 — a seasoned politician like Mandelson — should go to Washington, rather than the previous Conservative government’s choice of Sir Tim Barrow, a career diplomat. The idea of Mandelson as ambassador was first promoted by Mandelson himself, as the former New Labour grandee sought one final high-profile public role.”
Uh huh…
It includes laughable source quotes such as: “it’s ironic really, because Keir didn’t even like Mandelson“. That must be why he ignored the advice of the entire government machine, showered Mandelson in praise in public, and appointed him anyway….
Speaking to Adam Boulton on Times Radio about kicking the Golders Green suspect, Heidi Alexander said:
“I thought that if I was in the shoes of that police officer, then if I’m honest, given the situation, and the fact that he had a backpack on his back, and they were worried about whether that might go off, I could, if I was a police officer, frankly, I could see myself having taken similar action.”