'Hanging by a thread': Labour MP torches Starmer in Mandelson backlash
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🗓️ 5 February 2026
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Summary
Sir Keir Starmer is facing a rebellion by Labour MPs over his handing of the Peter Mandelson and Jeffrey Epstein scandal. Labour backbencher Andy McDonald tells Camilla and Tim the PM is “hanging by a thread” after the Government was forced into an embarrassing climbdown on the release of Mandelson’s vetting documents.
Elswhere, Kemi Badenoch tells Camilla that “someone should lose their job” over the “number one” sleaze scandal of modern times.
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| 0:00.0 | The Telegraph. |
| 0:09.7 | Kemi Badenock has offered to help Labour MPs bring down Kirstama. |
| 0:15.1 | Veteran Labour MP Andy MacDonald tells us that the Prime Minister's premiership is hanging by a thread. |
| 0:21.6 | Welcome to the Daily Tea with me, Camilla Tomini. |
| 0:24.0 | And me, Tim Stanley. |
| 0:35.6 | Tim, we've just been at Akami-Bad speech, which we'll get on to in just a minute. |
| 0:39.6 | But while we were waiting for the leader of the opposition to come onto stage, |
| 0:43.7 | with some bizarre background music being played by the Tories, |
| 0:46.8 | it's like the stuff that they can just play on repeat. |
| 0:49.1 | They're not paying for any copyright. |
| 0:51.1 | It was like elevator music on steroids. |
| 0:53.5 | You had your earphones in and you started |
| 0:56.3 | loudly gefforing. I didn't realize how loud it was. It was so loud. People were turning round. |
| 1:02.5 | I think it was because the theme of the Prime Minister's event was pride in place and he began |
| 1:08.7 | by getting the name of the place where he was wrong. Let's listen to it. |
| 1:13.2 | Now, I'm here today in Hastings for similar reasons because I love this country. Later on in the |
| 1:22.5 | speech, a car alarm went off. I could have warned him he was in Hastings and Hastings is so rough that even |
| 1:28.8 | the sandcastles get burgled. But it wasn't a good sound when you're trying to talk about |
| 1:33.1 | community cohesion. Also, he had tried to cobble together two different speeches. He had a speech |
| 1:39.2 | plan about how reform is dividing our country, extremism, yada, yada, yada. |
| 1:45.7 | One might argue that our country is being more divided by rape gangs, sex trafficking, |
| 1:51.5 | and alleged insider trading. |
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