Starmageddon – ex-military denunciation and ethics inquiry

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SUNDAY NEWS:

https://t.me/RichardsWatch/31796

CLEAR HINT AT ROOT CAUSE OF TRUMP’S DISDAIN FOR STARMER BRINGING SHAME UPON BRITAIN
Extract: ‘… Williams is not alone in sounding the alarm about Britain’s hollowed-out defence capability. Last week, Lord Robertson, who had returned to write the current Labour Government’s 2025 SDR, launched a blistering attack on Keir Starmer’s failure to match rhetoric on defence with action on spending. Sir John Major, the former Conservative prime minister, backed Robertson, warning that “defence cannot be an optional expenditure”.

Starmer’s response, politely disagreeing with Robertson and repeating the traditional line that “our Armed Forces are the best in the world”, provoked Williams to accuse the prime minister, in Trumpian uppercase, of a “BRIGHT SHINING (and DANGEROUS) LIE”… ‘

Continue reading (£0 Paywall) https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/4689563392eb6ae6

TODAY:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/04/28/politics-live-starmer-mcsweeney-mandelson-vetting-scandal/ (?Paywall) – emphases mine:

‘Labour MPs have demanded Sir Keir Starmer refer himself to the privileges committee over the Mandelson scandal.

Backbenchers have said that despite pressure from No 10, they will not vote to protect the Prime Minister from an ethics inquiry over claims he misled MPs.

The crunch vote is seen as a vote of confidence in Sir Keir’s leadership, after the Prime Minister held a meeting with MPs on Monday urging them to back him.

John McDonnell, the former shadow chancellor under Jeremy Corbyn, said Sir Keir should refer himself to the committee to clear his name. “When you’re under attack like this you don’t run from the attack, you run to face it,” he told the Commons.

Andy McDonald agreed, adding that the Prime Minister had made it clear “he has not misled this House. So in those circumstances, would it not be the right thing to do to embrace this process and wipe the floor with the critics that put these things to him?”

Nadia Whittome, the Labour MP for South Shields who is a fierce critic of Sir Keir’s, went further and said she would vote to refer him to the committee. The Telegraph understands another Labour MP on the Left of the party is also minded to abstain.

The revolt currently appears to be confined to MPs who are known critics of the Prime Minister.

5:17pm – Suspended Labour MP tells Starmer to ‘face the music’

Sir Keir Starmer should “face the music” and agree to an ethics committee investigation over whether he misled Parliament about the Mandelson scandal, a suspended Labour MP said.

Karl Turner, who lost the whip last month, told LBC he did not believe the Prime Minister had “deliberately misled” MPs, but may have inadvertently misled the House.

“If you’ve nothing to hide, face the music. Give your evidence. Prove that you’ve not done what’s suggested of you.”

He added: “I believe that the Prime Minister had not deliberately misled Parliament. I don’t think he did, but I do think there’s a prima-facie case for him to face the privileges committee inquiry. That’s why it’s there.”

4:33pm – Majority of the public think there should be a official inquiry on whether Starmer misled Parliament

Six in ten people believe there should be an official inquiry into whether Sir Keir Starmer misled Parliament about the Mandelson vetting saga, a new poll has shown.

A survey for YouGov found that 61 per cent of voters believe there should be an inquiry of the nature that MPs are currently debating in the Commons.

Just one fifth of voters do not think there should be one… ‘

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