Starmer's not fit to run the country: Kemi launches blistering attack on 'weak, lazy and incompetent' PM as Mandelson crisis threatens to force him out of No10

It emerged that security chiefs handed a dossier to Sir Keir's team about Mandelson's dubious links to Russia and his relationship to paedophile Jeffrey Epstein in 2023, further undermining the Prime Minister's claims he had no knowledge of the unsuitability of his appointment. The Tories plot a major Commons D-Day showdown over the scandal, using the same tactics first weaponised against Boris Johnson by Sir Keir himself. Armed Forces minister Al Carns was said to be on 'resignation watch', with some Labour MPs insisting that Sir Keir must either quit or face a leadership challenge in the wake of his 'serial failure of judgment' over Mandelson. Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey called on Sir Keir to publish a separate Cabinet Office due diligence report on the New Labour grandee, completed before he was appointed, adding that 'chucking civil servants under the bus isn't good enough'. Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar stood by his call for the PM to quit, saying the latest twist in the Mandelson affair 'demonstrates why I said what I said in February'.