BREAKING: Starmer’s Chief of Staff Morgan McSweeney Resigns as Scandal Over Lord Mandelson’s Appointment Continues to Rage
Sir Keir Starmer’s Chief of Staff has quit Downing Street as the Government continues to reel from the Peter Mandelson scandal. The Telegraph has the latest.
The Prime Minister’s right-hand man quit after a backlash to him pushing for Lord Mandelson to be appointed ambassador to the US.
Mr McSweeney insisted Lord Mandelson was the best man for the job in Washington despite being warned twice by civil servants about the peer’s ties to Jeffrey Epstein.
The resignation will be seen as a final chance for Sir Keir to reverse his political fortunes after more than a year-and-a-half of his political authority draining away.
Lord Mandelson was appointed despite Downing Street knowing about his ongoing friendship with Epstein even after the late financier was convicted of child sex crimes.
Fresh revelations about the connections between the two men have plunged Sir Keir into the worst crisis of his premiership.
Mutinous Labour MPs had threatened to back a leadership challenge against the Prime Minister if he refused to get rid of Mr McSweeney. …
Mr McSweeney was seen as the mastermind behind Labour’s 2024 general election landslide and has been at Sir Keir’s side since he became Labour leader in 2020. …
Anger with Mr McSweeney had been growing among Labour MPs well in advance of the Lord Mandelson scandal.
He came under fire for his political management amid a series of highly unpopular policies including the winter fuel raid on pensioners and billions of pounds in welfare cuts, both of which led to about-turns.
Distrust among MPs then turned to fury over Mr McSweeney’s attempts to launch rearguard action against the sacking of Lord Mandelson in September.
Here is Morgan McSweeney’s statement in full:
After careful reflection, I have decided to resign from the Government.
The decision to appoint Peter Mandelson was wrong. He has damaged our party, our country and trust in politics itself.
When asked, I advised the Prime Minister to make that appointment and I take full responsibility for that advice. In public life responsibility must be owned when it matters most, not just when it is most convenient. In the circumstances, the only honourable course is to step aside.
This has not been an easy decision. Much has been written and said about me over the years but my motivations have always been simple: I have worked every day to elect and support a government that puts the lives of ordinary people first and leads us to a better future for our great country. Only a Labour government will do that. I leave with pride in all we have achieved mixed with regret at the circumstances of my departure. But I have always believed there are moments when you must accept your responsibility and step aside for the bigger cause.
As I leave I have two further reflections:
Firstly, and most importantly, we must remember the women and girls whose lives were ruined by Jeffrey Epstein and whose voices went unheard for far too long.
Secondly, while I did not oversee the due diligence and vetting process, I believe that process must now be fundamentally overhauled. This cannot simply be a gesture but a safeguard for the future.
I remain fully supportive of the Prime Minister. He is working every day to rebuild trust, restore standards and serve the country. I will continue to back that mission in whatever way I can. It has been the honour of my life to serve.
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Too little, too late.
And they still don’t get the anger over the grooming gangs.
Obviously depends on who does the raping.
I for one am relieved McSweeney has resigned. This puts my mind at rest. It shows me that everything is about to change for the better. It works every time. Whenever the government is ballsing something up and someone supposedly important resigns everything starts getting fixed and we get right back on track.
Now that this fella – McSweeney, that’s the name, right? – now that he’s gone, phew, we can all relax now. That’s going to fix everything.
I have resigned in the hope that my boss can continue to lead the government – you won’t believe what he’s promised me if it works?
I wonder how much compensation he will get for voluntarily resigning.
BTW who else has noticed how many Labour people have recently claimed to have advised against the appointment of Mandelson as Ambassador. I wonder how many really did so.
Not much of a landslide, not much of a campaign – Labour got 20% of available votes. Maybe Macsweaney is not the political god that Starmer and Mandelson’s thought he was. Maybe he has other qualities.
A portion of the 20% voted to get the Tories out not Labour in.
It is inconceivable that this complete and utter Next Tuesday has not been offered a bit of ermine as compensation for his treachery.
Yep next stop the UN,NATO or any other ghastly globalist organisation that is hell bent on making our lives a misery. Plenty of places in “The Swamp”.
What about the girls’ lives that have been ruined in Britain by the grooming gangs that Rupert Lowe is doing his best to expose
The MSN or majority of MPs are not bothered about them.
Same on them all
Well, the difference is that Epstein is dead, which is rather convenient: the government can blame him for everything and also use him to divert attention from the Pakistani Muslim grooming gangs.
Even though, disgusting as Epstein was, I would hazard a guess that the number of his victims is minuscule as compared to the mass abuse carried out by members of the above mentioned community.
I’ve never believed that Epstein topped himself. Like many others, I think he was swapped out with someone else, all paid for by his wealthy friends, and now he’s alive & well in Andinia or Israel, heavily disguised and living off the proceeds of his many offshore accounts, while he waits for Grisly Maxwell to slip away to join him later.
Apparently his death was announced a day early? Also he has a brother…
He was also not a ‘paedophile’ which is pre-pubescent children, usually taken as 13. Hebephilia being the attraction to pubescent children, typically 11 to 14.
I’m sorry that you’re discovering only now that the people who hold power in this country (and any country really) don’t give a damn about you or any other ordinary person that doesn’t serve them some useful purpose. (And when they do, only in so far as they are useful to them.)
Now if we can just get a majority of the voting public to realise this and act on it, we might just manage to put the government and it’s institutions in their place.
Why does the headline say “resigns” when the article correctly reports him to have resigned. Is there a grammar problem at DS.
Another Mc Someone was on GB News this morning saying that Starmer had never met Epstein but other Labour supporters are saying that Starmer, Mandleson and Epstein were members of the Trilateral Commission, created to bypass democracy. Could somone please asked Kneel whether he has met Ep, or not, and has he ever been a member?
List here, on my phone so tricky to search it
https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:VA6C2:081f4d18-6d78-48f3-9e5a-0f403149f8f0
Starmer mentioned somewhere as a former member
Scrolling through there are a lot of members from politics and business, revolving doors etc. I am sure they all have my best interests at heart and are fully accountable and transparent in all their dealings and never have conversations behind closed doors which go unminuted, never attempt to influence national governments. Hold on – if they don’t attempt to influence national governments, what’s the point of them
existing?
Apparently they are helping solve the world’s problems and they explicitly say they want to influence national security strategies. They also say they recently met to discuss the impact of technology on democracy. I’m sure they are fully in favour of free speech. https://www.trilateral.org/about/
Yes, but he didn’t inhale – or was that another time, another place. Let’s not forget that Rory Stewart is, or was, also a trilateralist.
IS he now!!?? I did not know that. Very interesting.
I first heard about TC from a Robert Ludlum book about 35 years ago, everyone on the beach were reading the. Not really m6y thing found it too fantastic withe the ex CIA renegade hero armed with the equivalent of a mobile phone today. Any way Ludlum wrote one of his inspirations was the founding of TC by David Rockefeller; the othe being the Spaniard who flew Franco from Canaries to Morroco ending up the richest man in Spain.Can confirm I have see lists that Starmer was a member of TC
From a recent article on the Labour Heartlands website…
https://labourheartlands.com/the-labour-oligarchy/
“…Keir Starmer joined the Trilateral Commission between 2017 and 2018 while serving as Jeremy Corbyn’s Shadow Brexit Secretary. He never disclosed this membership to Corbyn’s team. He never declared it to Parliament. Research by Declassified UK reveals he was “one of only two serving British MPs to have been a member.”
I don’t think that very many people realise this is where all the idiotic destructive policy comes from. Starmer truly doesn’t care about us, he serves different masters.
”Mr McSweeney was seen as the mastermind behind Labour’s 2024 general election landslide…”
Wasn’t that the Tories?
That’s very good.
Westminster tittle-tattle. Meanwhile we have a few more years of possibly the worst government ever, regardless of which figurehead is nominally running it.
McVentriloquist falls on sword, Dummy next.
Quite. Starmer’s lack of “political instinct” to be laid bare.
Not quite as “forensic” as he was touted, is he?
McSwiney is a complete idiot; still believes in Labour.
Morgan McSweeney was the conduit between the globalist elites and UK politics. A protege of Mandelson he started Labour Together and projected Starmer to replace Corbyn and to eventually become PM. It’s fitting that the payback to Mandelson did for him.
One thing I have noticed since the GE is how many advisers, assistants etc to the Labour party when they were in opposition who are now just talking heads on the media and who didn’t make it to Government. They all remained fiercely loyal to Starmer and the party despite not getting the plumb jobs. It does make me wonder why they didn’t advance into Government positions, why they remain loyal and who the support teams are now and what they did before the election.
Media keeps saying McSweeney is smart and clever. The reality proves otherwise
I believe he’s smart and clever.
We are governed by droves of smart and clever people doing spectacularly dumb and destructive things. But that’s because they lack wisdom, courage and integrity.