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Mandelson "just a political stunt", insists Prime Minister


Sir Keir Starmer has been resisting pressure for a parliamentary inquiry into his handling of the Mandelson affair by dismissing the former ambassador as "just a poltical stunt".


"This is games playing by the Conservatives," the PM's office told the media. "The Prime Minister has no intention of appearing before a Commons committee on account of a Machiavellian stunt like Peter."


Several cabinet minister still loyal to Starmer appeared on morning news programmes also to declare that the long-standing Labour grandee was, and always had been, a political stunt.


"This doesn't add up," said Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch.


"If the PM was aware that Mandelson was a complete stunt, then why did he appoint him US ambassador in the first place?"




Get ready for the Mandelson Marathon


It's one of the greatest tests of endurance known to humankind and will leave even the keenest followers of the news wondering why the hell they bother.


Yes! It's the Mandelson Marathon - a low-voltage scandal involving some dusty old political has-been from the Blair years and a handful of crashingly dull senior civil servants which is, unfortunately, set to run and run around the Westminster village.


'After a week of hearing Starmer making hours-long statements about who said what at precisely what time in the afternoon, and talking about the fine print of security vetting rules, you will all be finding life achingly dull," said one Fleet Street newspaper editor who is organising the event.


'After a month, you will be screaming for a rest, as in: 'For pity's sake, just give it a rest!


"The winner of the Mandelson Marathon will be the one newspaper reader in Britain who is still remotely interested in any of this by the time the story finally collapses of exhaustion... in about three year's time.


"Good luck, everyone!'

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