Kemi Badenoch: Spineless Starmer has shown his true colours over Peter Mandelson

Starmer is refusing to justify exactly how and why he appointed Mandelson (Picture: Carl Court/Getty Images)

Keir Starmer is in office, not in power.

On Sunday night, with further allegations swirling around his relationship with the notorious convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, Peter Mandelson resigned from the Labour Party.

Keir Starmer did not have the backbone to remove his membership. He let him quit. Apparently to spare Labour ‘further embarrassment’ – as if that were possible.