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The Two Matts

This is the end for Keir Starmer

The Two Matts

The New World

Politics, Government, News, News Commentary

4.2577 Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2026

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

The Matts assess the last 24 hours and reach an inescapable conclusion: Keir Starmer will not survive the Mandelson affair. He may limp on for weeks, even months. But the damage of this specific event has ignited such a rage within and without the Labour Party that his departure as prime minister feels more than likely - it feels both inevitable and necessary. If Starmer and his government were strong and making headway in the nation, this scandal would be entirely survivable. But they’re not.


Produced by Matt Withers


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0:00.0

People who, you know, whose lack of, they're indifference to politics often astonishes me,

0:09.6

but on this, they are gripped by absolute rage.

0:16.2

I'm beginning more forthrightly to question the characteristic portrayal of Stama as impacably

0:22.5

decent and unimpeachable because this looks to me increasingly like a squatter number 10.

0:32.6

We've both agreed, I think, that he will not survive this. How the end actually comes, I don't know,

0:41.3

but I think this is a nail on the head for him. You know, I will not survive this.

0:50.0

Hello and happy Thursday. Happy Thursday, one and all.

0:54.0

Hope you're all having a wonderful week so far.

0:57.4

Starm is not having a wonderful week at all.

1:00.3

No, I think he's, this is his last week in terms of practical power.

1:06.6

It may last longer.

1:08.4

The Norwegian blue may be perched, nailed to the perch a bit longer.

1:13.2

But yesterday, during PMQ's power drain, what power he had drained from him.

1:20.6

You could hear a gasp in the House of Commons when he answered,

1:26.0

Kemi Badnock, about what he had been told about Peter Mandelson

1:30.7

when he appointed him to US ambassador.

1:33.8

He said yes, yes, he had been told during the security vetting procedure

1:39.7

about Mandelson's continued association with Jeffrey Epstein,

1:43.3

after Epstein was convicted of sexual crimes against minors.

1:48.5

And that I think was it.

1:51.0

And as they say, it's all over by the shouting.

1:53.9

Now, there's a lot of rearguard action about process

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