{"id":49521,"date":"2026-04-28T18:04:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T18:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=49521"},"modified":"2026-04-28T18:04:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T18:04:33","slug":"uk-pm-starmer-faces-vote-on-possible-parliamentary-probe-over-mandelson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=49521","title":{"rendered":"UK PM Starmer faces vote on possible parliamentary probe over Mandelson"},"content":{"rendered":"
Britain’s parliament will vote on Tuesday on a possible \u200cinquiry into Prime Minister Keir Starmer, looking at whether he misled the House of Commons over the appointment of former United States ambassador Peter Mandelson.<\/p>\n

Any such inquiry could have serious implications for Starmer’s future. He has so far resisted pressure to quit over his decision \u200bto hire Mandelson, but if found to have knowingly misled parliament, his position would likely become \u200buntenable.<\/p>\n

House of Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle said he had approved a request from opposition \u2060Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch for parliament to debate and vote on whether the Committee of Privileges should \u200blook into the matter.<\/p>\n

Read: Starmer’s Mandelson woes deepen<\/p>\n

Mandelson was fired by Starmer last September after his relationship with the late US sex offender \u200bJeffrey Epstein was found to be deeper than previously known.<\/p>\n

Doubts over PM\u2019s judgment<\/p>\n

That has raised doubts about Starmer’s judgment in hiring him, exacerbated by the revelation that a security vetting body had described the appointment as a borderline case and that it was leaning \u200bagainst granting clearance,\u00a0a decision foreign ministry officials overruled without telling the prime minister.<\/p>\n

Starmer’s centre-left Labour Party has a \u200blarge majority in parliament, which could allow the government to instruct its lawmakers to vote down the launch of an \u200cinquiry.<\/p>\n

On Monday, \u2060the government published a letter sent in September from former cabinet secretary Chris Wormald, saying he had concluded “that appropriate processes were followed in both the appointment and withdrawal” of Mandelson as ambassador.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson from Starmer’s office described Badenoch’s push for a vote as a “desperate political stunt” ahead of local elections due on May 7.<\/p>\n

Also Read: Mandelson scandal shatters UK PM Starmer’s promise of stable government<\/p>\n

Hoyle said \u200bhis decision to allow \u200bthe vote should not be \u2060taken as an indicator of whether Starmer had done anything wrong or not.<\/p>\n

If parliament did vote in favour of an inquiry, the committee, made up of lawmakers \u200bfrom the three biggest parties, would examine whether Starmer’s statements on Mandelson amount \u200bto knowingly or \u2060inadvertently misleading the House of Commons.<\/p>\n

The focus of any such inquiry would be expected to fall on Starmer’s statement that due process was followed when hiring Mandelson.<\/p>\n

The committee previously found that former Conservative Prime Minister Boris Johnson had \u2060knowingly misled \u200bparliament over rule-breaking parties held during the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n

Johnson had already \u200bstood down as prime minister by the time the report was published, but he resigned from parliament altogether after seeing a draft \u200bcopy of the findings.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Britain’s parliament will vote on Tuesday on a possible \u200cinquiry into Prime Minister Keir Starmer, looking at whether he misled the House of Commons over the appointment of former United States ambassador Peter Mandelson. Any such inquiry could have serious implications for Starmer’s future. He has so far resisted pressure to quit over his decision […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}