Keir Starmer should quit, the leader of the Scottish Labour Party has said in a blow to the British Prime Minister’s fragile authority.
Anas Sarwar used a press conference to call for Starmer to resign as the British Prime Minister battles to remain in No 10 following the scandal surrounding Peter Mandelson’s appointment to Washington as British ambassador, despite his links to Jeffrey Epstein being known.
Sarwar said: “The distraction needs to end and the leadership in Downing Street has to change.”
Sarwar is the most senior Labour politician to call for Starmer to go, perhaps conscious of the task facing Scottish Labour in May’s Holyrood elections.
The UK Prime Minister’s chief of staff, Morgan McSweeney, quit on Sunday and communications chief Tim Allan left on Monday in the wake of the Mandelson row.