20/04/2026
END THE BLAME GAME SIR KEIR!!
Kemi Badenoch has called for the Prime Minister to take personal responsibility for the shameful Mandelson affair rather than blaming everyone else....
Will Sir Keir take any notice, or will we see yet another show of performative anger where the Prime Minister plays the role of the victim rather than taking ministerial responsibility for his failures?
Dear Prime Minister,
I welcome the fact that you will be making a statement in the House of Commons on Monday about further revelations relating to your appointment of Lord Mandelson as the British Ambassador in Washington. On Friday, you admitted that you had not given accurate information to Parliament previously. It is also obvious that you did not inform the House of these important errors at the “earliest opportunity”, which would have been last Wednesday.
As an experienced barrister you will know the importance of telling the truth, but you will also know that many people think you have been at best recklessly negligent and at worst dishonest about this whole affair.
You have failed to answer very simple questions about what you did and what you knew. This is contemptuous of Parliament, discourteous to the House, and against the fundamental requirement set out in your own Ministerial Code.
The Ministerial Code says that “It is of paramount importance that ministers give accurate and truthful information to Parliament”. It also continues to note that “Ministerial office requires candour and openness” and ministers “should be as open as possible with Parliament and the public, refusing to provide information only when disclosure would not be in the public interest which should be decided in accordance with the relevant statutes”.
Given the high standards to which you yourself have held former Prime Ministers, given the inaccurate information you have provided so far to Parliament, and given the requirements you have placed on all ministers in your own code, we must do things differently tomorrow. All members of Parliament should be treated with the respect that their democratic mandate should assure them.
I will be seeking answers to questions, which the British people will rightfully expect complete and truthful responses. No more evasion. No more digressions. Parliament and the public will want to hear you give us the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
This has been a ta**ry and shaming affair for you and your party, and for this country. Not only have you damaged our relationship with the United States and insulted the victims of the pa******le Jeffrey Epstein, but you have also undermined our national security by giving the highest diplomatic post to an individual that the security services found to be of “high concern”.
This affair reveals how you run your Government. If you show the same negligence to other key issues, it is no surprise that we are facing so many challenges. More fundamentally it is distracting you and your ministers from addressing the cost of living crisis, and Britain’s national security and economic challenges.
I am copying this letter to the Leaders of the other Political Parties in the House of Commons, whom you have in the past also treated with disdain by refusing to answer the questions, which it is their right as elected parliamentarians to ask of you.
Instead of another round of blaming everyone else and demeaning the office of Prime Minister, I trust we can look forward to a frank statement in which you will take due responsibility.
