Starmer's Appointment Scandal: Misleading Parliament

0:00On April 17th, U.K. ministers are pushing back hard after claims that Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer misled Parliament on Lord Peter Mendelssohn's appointment as ambassador to the United States. Security experts recommended against clearing him, but foreign office officials overruled that advice anyway. Starmer had assured MPs that full due process was followed for the pick. Now, the foreign office's top civil servant, Sir Olly Robbins, got effectively fired over the vetting mess. Scottish labor leader Anna Sarwar called the Mendelssohn drama the tipping point that led him to demand Starmer step down, back in February. He stood outside the first minister's residence in Edinburgh with a giant letter to hype postal voting, doubling down on his stance. Sarwar says he doesn't know all the details of those internal talks, but insists, downing street and parliament need to answer the big questions about misleading lawmakers. Meanwhile, Chief Secretary Darren Jones revealed Starmer was furious when he learned the

1:01foreign office ignored the security warning. This scandal keeps heating up Labour's internal tensions as they head into key votes.