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Starmer: I am not ready to give up my mandate! I do not want to plunge the country into chaos

2026-02-10 08:34:14Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX

Resisting calls for his resignation, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said yesterday evening that he is "not ready to step down" from his mandate as prime minister, as he tries to strengthen support within his party amid the fallout from the Peter Mandelson scandal.

Speaking during a meeting with Labour Party MPs, Starmer referred to his past in previous roles and within the party, saying: "I've won every battle I've ever been in."

He mentioned his time in the Crown Prosecution Service and efforts to reform the Labour Party, adding: "People were telling me I couldn't do it. Then gradually they started saying we could cross the line. We won by a landslide. Every battle I've been in, I've won."

Starmer acknowledged that criticism continues, saying he has faced "detractors at every step he has taken."

“Opponents who don’t want a Labour government at all, and certainly not one that will succeed,” Starmer added.
“But I tell you this: having fought so hard for the chance to change our country, I am not prepared to give up my mandate and my responsibility to the country, or to plunge us into chaos, as others have done,” he concluded.

Last week, Starmer said he felt "sorry" for believing Mandelson's "lies" and appointing him as ambassador to the US, while pressure mounted after he admitted he knew about Mandelson's links to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who died in 2019.

Mandelson was sacked in September, but recently released documents about Epstein suggested he had shared confidential information with Epstein when he was Britain's business secretary in 2009. Mandelson has also resigned from the House of Lords and from the Labour Party itself.

The US Department of Justice last month released more than 3 million pages, 2,000 videos and 180,000 images under the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which was signed into law in November last year.

The materials include photographs, jury transcripts and investigative files, though many pages remain redacted. Epstein survivors and victims' families say the release does not meet legal requirements and leaves out much vital information.


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