As his eighth attempt to legalise assisted suicide crashes out of Parliament today, Guido has seen fresh polling showing almost two-thirds of voters (63%) think the Bill’s champion in the Lords, Lord Falconer, should apologise and stand down as a peer. That’s for introducing Peter Mandelson into the Lords just months after Jeffrey Epstein’s first conviction…
69% say Falconer should publish all communications with Mandelson relating to the assisted suicide Bill, and 67% say Labour should publish any advice Mandelson gave on pursuing legislation via a private members’ bill rather than a manifesto commitment. Imploding…
Falconer’s links to Mandelson are replete: a longstanding family friend, flatmate and key architect of New Labour. He’s had his back since the home loan scandal and remains unembarrassed by their relationship. The Mandelson scandal is still rolling…
Red Wall Labour backbencher Jonathan Brash told GB News that Starmer should resign:
“I’m completely fed up about it, and I think it’s got to the point now where I genuinely think that, as far as the Prime Minister is concerned, it’s not a case of if, it’s when.”