To those of us of a certain age, hearing that a Labour Prime Minister had sacked Peter Mandelson has much the same Proustian effect as hearing the Spice Girls again.
Either Mandelson had not been vetted, or he had been but Keir Starmer ignored what MI6 would certainly have put in front of him. Which was it?
Now, about the Labour whip in the House of Lords, about attendance at it, about the Privy Council, and about Mandelson’s Labour Party membership. Starmer could take away three of those four on the spot.
Assuming that Tony Blair was still a member of the Labour Party, then even Jeremy Corbyn’s expulsion of Alastair Campbell could not persuade him to resign. But expelling Mandelson may just do the trick. Starmer could then claim to have purged both Corbyn and Blair. There would be an audience and a market for that.
The question of the whip in the Lords is not going away.
ReplyDeleteLabour Peers should refuse it while he still had it.
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