MP: ‘Come clean Starmer or you may have to go'
There have been calls for the Prime Minister to go after new documents from the Epstein files were released this week showing that Lord Mandelson’s association with the paedophile financier went deeper than previously thought.
Particularly troubling are payments made by Epstein to close associates of Lord Mandelson, and how much the Prime Minister knew when the former Labour party heavyweight was appointed UK ambassador to the USA.
Mr Witherden has released a statement for MyWelshpool and MyNewtown readers to show his anger and disappointment in his party’s hierarchy and is calling for urgent action.
His statement reads:
“Peter Mandelson’s association with the paedophile Jeffrey Epstein long after his conviction was depraved, craven, and I believe fundamentally treasonous. This is someone who ruined the lives of a vast number of victims and we must act for them first and foremost.
I informed the government yesterday of my intention to vote down its plan to control the redaction of documents relating to Mandelson. It relinquished this control by handing the process to Parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee yesterday afternoon.
Starmer claimed the release of fully unredacted documents would constitute a risk to national security, given the sensitivity of Mandelson’s position as the US Ambassador.
Not fully investigating an individual who appears to have been acting as a mole for foreign interests, however, would also constitute such a risk. Regardless, the public have a right to transparency.
This scandal has shone a light on the disturbing relationship between wealth and power. Not just within Epstein’s circle, but within financial and business interests, within the White House, and now seemingly within Number 10.
The tendency of power to corrupt is not new knowledge – but it is rare to catch so plain a glimpse of a moral void this cavernous.
At the very least, the Prime Minister’s Chief of Staff, Mr McSweeney, clearly has to answer why he pushed for Mandelson’s appointment despite details of his relationship with Epstein being publicly known.
Mandelson’s avarice, his American business connections, and his malign influence within the Labour Party are simultaneously why he was made Ambassador and why he was useful to Epstein. It is the same story.
Readers will know I have taken an independent line from the government whenever doing otherwise would have compromised my ability to properly represent my constituents, or when my conscience forbade me.
This is another one of those times. The Prime Minister must reveal the full truth or his position will become untenable.”
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