Hammer Blow For Keir Starmer As Scottish Labour Leader Anas Sarwar To Call On Him To Quit
Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar is to call on Keir Starmer to resign as prime minister in a hammer blow for the prime minister.
He will make the incendiary demand at an emergency press conference on Monday afternoon.
It comes as No.10 continues to deal with the fallout of the Peter Mandelson scandal.
The disgraced former UK ambassador to Washington is facing a police investigation over allegations he passed market sensitive information to the convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein when he was business secretary between 2008 and 2010.
Sarwar’s ultimatum will be seen as a last-ditch effort to prevent annihilation for the party at the Holyrood elections on May 7.
Opinion polls show the SNP on course to be comfortably re-elected as the Scottish government, with Labour locked in a battle with Reform UK for second place.
Downing Street will now be on red alert for any government ministers following Sarwar and demanding the PM’s resignation.
Downing Street chief of staff Morgan McSweeney, Starmer’s closest adviser, dramatically quit on Sunday, saying he was taking responsibility for advising the PM to give Mandelson the ambassador’s job.
He was followed through the No.10 exit door on Monday morning by communications director Tim Allan.
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