Kemi Badenoch slams Keir Starmer over missing Mandelson docs ahead of PMQs
Badenoch vows to expose PM on secret Mandelson files
Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch is shaking up Westminster again. She’s demanding answers on why crucial documents promised by Sir Keir Starmer about Lord Mandelson’s dodgy US ambassador gig remain under wraps.
During a nostalgic trip to a McDonald’s kitchen in Ruislip, north-west London, Badenoch fired up her attack. She says she’ll grill the Prime Minister at Wednesday’s PMQs over the Cabinet Office’s slow-walking of the file release.
The papers are supposed to reveal how Mandelson landed the role despite his murky links to convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
“Tomorrow at Prime Minister’s Questions, the Prime Minister will need to explain why the documents he promised to release last week have not turned up yet,” Badenoch warned.
She added, “What are they covering up? The Cabinet Office has told ministers not to release their text messages like the Health Secretary. Wes Streeting did. There’s something they’re trying to hide, and I’m going to get to the bottom of it.”
‘Starmer in deep trouble’ – Badenoch on Labour chaos
But Badenoch didn’t stop at the Mandelson files. Fresh from flipping a sausage McMuffin and a hash brown — her first time back in a McDonald’s kitchen in 30 years — she slammed Sir Keir’s wobbling leadership.
“The Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar said the quiet bit out loud. Labour MPs and the Labour Party have lost confidence in their leader,” she said.
Badenoch reckons Labour MPs are too scared to move against Starmer, worried about their own jobs, giving him a temporary “stay of execution.”
“The sad thing is that the country is suffering from not being governed at all,” she concluded.
Mandelson saga deepens amid Labour turmoil
Starmer got a brief reprieve on Monday when Labour ministers publicly backed him despite the swirling Mandelson-Epstein scandal. But the mystery over the delayed documents promised last week refuses to go away.
The files are key to uncovering how one of Labour’s most controversial figures landed a top US ambassador role — and what the government might be desperate to keep hidden.
