Keir Starmer told to RESIGN by Laura Trott as Lord Mandelson ‘lies’ row engulfs PM

Revelations about Lord Mandelson’s relationship with paedophile financier Epstein forced his hand, but the Tories are refusing to let the story die.

Ms Trott has now told Camilla Tominey on GB News that Sir Keir should be forced to resign if he has misled the House.

Camilla pressed the Shadow Education Secretary, saying: “You can’t have a situation where the Leader of the Opposition [Kemi Badenoch] is accusing the Prime Minister of lying to the Commons, misleading Parliament and not calling for him to resign. You can’t have it both ways.

“You can’t start obfuscating yourself.”

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Ms Trott said: “I don’t think it’s obfuscating as much as being very clear on what the process should be from this point.

“Kemi is not buying it, I’m not buying it and I don’t think the British public is buying it. The next step in this is to be transparent in all the information and then go from there.”

Camilla said: “Let’s put it this way. If the Prime Minister has lied to the Commons, do you agree that’s a resignation event?”

“Yes”, Ms Trott responded.

Camilla then brought up a post Ms Trott made on X this morning in which she praised Lucy Powell’s “courage” to call for a change in culture in 10 Downing Street after “the PM was in an absurd position this week defending the ‘best pal’ of a paedophile”.

She continued: “What you’re saying is, you’re calling for a change of leadership.

“So when I ask you, ‘should Keir Starmer resign’, why isn’t the answer ‘yes?’, put your money where your mouth is.”

Ms Trott said: “I am saying that on the basis of the information we have right now, the Prime Minister has lied.

“But, we believe in due process. We need to see exactly what has happened and what information has been given and when, because they are denying that.

“We need to have this out in the public domain. We will use all the avenues available to us.”

“You’re missing my point”, Camilla interjected, before raising a Kemi Badenoch tweet which also accused the Prime Minister of lying.

“You and I are agreeing that lying to the Commons is a resignation event”, she continued.

“Therefore, should the Prime Minister resign? What in earth is the point in Kemi Badenoch saying this?

“She’s tweeted this saying if you’ve lied to the Commons, you have to resign, so I’m confused.

“Why isn’t her Shadow Education Secretary saying about this on my show, ‘we’ve made this point and he should resign’, you’re being cowardly about it.”

Ms Trott said: “I’ve been exceptionally clear that if he’s lied, he should go, and it does look like he has.”

Camilla, exasperated, said: “You are calling for the Prime Minister’s resignation if it’s established he has lied. So we do have a Shadow Cabinet Minister calling for the Prime Minister to go.”

“We got there.”

Badenoch took to social media to claim that Sir Keir Starmer and Labour MPs "spent the week lying to the whole country" about their awareness of Mandelson's connections to Epstein.

The Tory leader suggested the Prime Minister had misled Parliament, stating: "If No 10 had those emails for 48 hours before acting, it means he lied at PMQs and ministers lied again about new additional information."

Badenoch demanded answers to what she termed "very serious questions" and insisted: "The only way to clear this up is full transparency about who knew what, and when."

The controversy centres on when Downing Street became aware of damaging communications between Mandelson and Epstein. According to government sources, the Foreign Office first received a media enquiry detailing these messages on Tuesday, which was then passed to Number 10.