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Keir Starmer is Finished. But What Did We Learn From Mandelson/Epstein Affair? - Konstantin Kisin
16 Feb 2026
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Keir Starmer is finished, but what have we learned from the Mandelson and Epstein affair? Revelations that Prime Minister Keir Starmer appointed Peter Mandelson as Britain's ambassador to the US, despite knowing that he'd maintained his friendship with sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, have had and will continue to have a series of long-running consequences.
First, and most obviously, Starmer's goose is cooked. He will likely survive the week for the very same reason he's extremely unlikely to survive the year. His rivals can read the tea leaves.
As I predicted in the wake of Starmer's supposed landslide, which was in reality merely the British public punishing the Tories without any enthusiasm for Labour whatsoever, things were inevitably going to get worse for Labour with every day they spent in power.
The pretenders to Starmer's wobbly throne know they're likely to get trounced in the Gorton and Denton by-election later this month, having hemorrhaged votes to reform and the Greens' emerging Green-Green alliance, on which more later. They also know that local government, mayoral, as well as Scottish and Welsh parliamentary elections are coming in early May.
A scapegoat will be needed to explain the inevitable disaster that will unfold for Labour at those elections. Why depose Starmer now, only to be fed into the mincer for his mistakes a few months down the line?
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