Nothing about No 10’s version of the Mandelson debacle makes sense as the excuses factory works overtime
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n days like these you reckon the prime minister would have more chance of being believed if he had said the dog ate his homework. After all, it’s quite possible that Keir Starmer has not yet realised he doesn’t have a dog. His amnesia and lack of curiosity are a piece of performance art. Almost up there with Boris Johnson. Keir would probably take that as a compliment.
As it is we are left with a dilemma. Occam’s razor. Either No 10 thinks we were born yesterday. Or everyone in No 10 was born yesterday. The excuses factory has been working overtime. But most people have already made up their minds.
No one can possibly have been quite so half-witted as to not take an interest in the security vetting of a man almost everyone knew to be so controversial. Who had twice been sacked from the cabinet for breaking the ministerial code and had maintained a friendship with Jeffrey Epstein after he had been convicted of soliciting prostitution from a minor. We are left with the thought that maybe the reason Starmer never asked to see the vetting report was because he already suspected Peter Mandelson had failed.
