Starmer's Mandelson Scandal: Blame Game Unravels

0:00On April 21, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer faces a major scandal over Lord Mandelson failing security checks for the British ambassador role to the United States. In Parliament, Starmer insisted he never knew about the bedding failure and claimed the foreign office never informed him. This week, Starmer fired Sir Olly Robbins, the top civil servant at the foreign office. Now Robbins prepares for a tense commons testimony, where he'll argue the Prime Minister pushed officials to approve Mandelson anyway. Newspapers across the board are roasting Starmer hard. The daily star calls his defense a sorry excuse. The telegraph paints him as a Monty Python knight, chopping off his own limbs, and the male blasted, as everyone's fault but his. Headmine screened that his story beggars believe. The independent notes it flagged the bedding issue seven months back, while the financial time says this fiasco exposes the real Starmer style. Meanwhile, officials plan to ban smartphones in all England schools, and food prices can

1:01mean nine pound pints by next year. King Charles marked what would have been Queen Elizabeth II's 100th birthday, with words on her hope that goodness prevails, even in, rough times like these.