House of Lords should strip Mandelson of peerage, says Starmer

2026-02-02 - 12:45

PM believes ex-Labour minister should not be member of House of Lords or use title, No 10 spokesperson says UK politics live – latest updates Keir Starmer has urged the House of Lords to urgently modernise its disciplinary procedures so that Peter Mandelson can be stripped of his peerage and removed from the upper chamber. The cabinet secretary, the UK’s most senior civil servant, will also investigate Mandelson’s actions as business secretary when Labour was last in power, after emails to Jeffrey Epstein about government policy emerged. Continue reading...