BREAKING: Labour MP breaks ranks and calls on Keir Starmer to RESIGN - ‘Fed up of psychodrama!’

For the second time in a week, the prime

minister faces questions over Peter

Mandolson uh from Kem Benog. Now want to

know what you thought of it, but also

what our chief political correspondent

Katherine Foster made of that exchange.

The last prime minister's question time

for a few weeks. Katherine Foster.

>> Yes. Well, good afternoon from a very

sunny college green, but the mood in

Parliament, anything but sunny. Some

very glum faces, I thought, on the

Labour benches. I think the first thing

we learned uh is that the prime minister

seems to have confirmed what Ollie

Robbins said yesterday about Matthew

Doyle, who was his uh comm's chief at

number 10. Um Ollie Robbins said that he

had been asked for the foreign office to

find him. a nice ambassadorial

role and he'd resisted that said you

know he doesn't have the right

experience and that uh he were going to

have to make cuts of good people as it

was. Now the prime minister said uh when

asked to confirm this well you know when

somebody leaves a role uh often there's

conversations about other roles that

they might apply for. So uh very much a

sort of nothing to see here uh line

coming from him. No apology for that

whatsoever. The problem with that is uh

that people will say people are saying

that this is jobs for the boys and

another example of cronyism because uh

Matthew Doyle didn't become an

ambassador but he was given a periage in

the House of Lords. Uh the Labour whip

has been subsequently stripped from him

because it turns out that he maintained

a friendship with a convicted sex

offender after the conviction. So Ed

Davyy, the Lib Dem leader, has said

another Labour crony friends with

another convictive pedophile. they see a

pattern and a direct link of course with

a Mandlesson appointment uh when he was

known to be uh friends with a convicted

pedophile Jeffrey Epstein even after

he'd been in jail. Um Kemmy Bnock tried

to get him on whether full due process

was followed as he said in the comments

uh back in September. He is absolutely

adamant that it was Chem Badno is having

none of it. And to be honest, we got

really bogged down in procedural

explanations. But uh Kem Badnock, I

thought one of her punchiest lines was

she said, "I don't know what planet the

prime minister is on. Appointing someone

known with known links to the Kremlin

was not full due process." And we know

uh that the vetting procedure did flag

uh his connections to companies in China

and Russia particularly as being a

national security risk. And then the

final point is uh yes Kemade not called

um for him to go. I think others called

for him to go as well. But uh the prime

minister is having none of it and he

says nothing will distract me from

delivering for the country. and then he

reeled off a whole load of things that

he says the Labor government is doing.

But the problem is this is distracting

them. We are all here talking about how

long the prime minister can last uh who

might uh try to take him out, who might

replace him. All of this scandal, all of

this drama, which was exactly what Saki

Starama promised a government led by him

would not do. They promised a change

from the chaos under the Conservatives

and here we are again.

>> Well, Katherine Fster, thank you very

much indeed for that. Uh we're joined in

the studio here uh by our Labour MP, the

Labour MP for Heartley, Jonathan Brash,

and our Conservative MP for the Isle of

White uh is of White East, I should say,

Joe Robertson. Uh so, uh Jonathan, let's

start with you. Let's put to you that

question that uh Katherine Fster

reiterated. The prime minister is trying

to say he's not distracted,

but clearly the government is

distracted. Three days in parliament on

the trot have now been talking about

this scandal. Yeah. I mean, I've got to

be clear. I am completely fed up to the

back teeth of this psycho drama in

Westminster, the own goals that are

coming from the heart of this

government. Meanwhile, we've got

fantastic Labor counselors, canvases,

activists up and down the country,

working hard and delivering for their

constituencies like mine in Hartley in

the facing local elections in the shadow

of this absolute mess. They just need to

get a grip. I'm completely fed up about

it. And I and I think it's it's got to

the point now where I genuinely think

that, you know, as far as the prime

minister is concerned, it's not a case

of if, it's when. And I just think we

need to get a handle on this because

people out there are worried about their

cost of living. They're worried about

their NHS. They're worried about crime

on their streets. And we're completely

consumed by this scandal. And it's

completely unacceptable. And as I'm sure

you can tell, I'm quite angry about it.

>> You're saying it's if, not when the

prime minister should resign.

>> Yeah. I mean, ultimately, we're in a

situation now where I don't think anyone

reasonably expects the prime minister to

lead the party into the next election.

And I think that we have to refocus this

government on the priorities of the

British people. Refocus it on delivering

which fantastic candidates and

councilors are doing up and down the

country right now in constituencies like

Heartleyool where they're bringing

investment, whether

>> we have to stay away from the party

political broadcast, I'm afraid.

>> Well, I mean the reality is is that I'm

sure it's true uh across the parties

about what's happening in terms of

working very hard for these local

elections. But the reality is why cuz

you just said something incredibly

significant then that you want your

leader the prime minister to go.

>> Why?

>> Because ultimately we've become

completely consumed by this turmoil at a

time when that is not what the British

public are focused on. They are focused

on their cost of living. They are

focused on the NHS. Now I think it's a

reasonable thing to set a timetable to

get this done in a in an orderly way

because we have got a very very big job

ahead of us. You know the next general

election is in 2029. We've got conflict.

>> It won't be if you if you change leaders

>> because they'll have no mandate.

>> Well I I I mean I think we've seen from

the from from from Joe's previous

administration that's not true. They

went the full five years and they had I

can't even remember how many leaders

they had in that time.

>> Three in that one parl.

>> Well there you go. Um, but the reality

is we have to focus on what the British

people care about. And we're being

consumed by the psycho drama.

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