A veteran Labour MP has admitted that Sir Keir Starmer is “finished” following shock revelations about his decision to appoint Lord Mandelson as the UK’s Ambassador to the US.

Graham Stringer, who was first elected as the MP for Blackley & Middleton South in 1997, gave a blunt one-word answer when discussing the Prime Minister’s future on GB News.

GB News host Martin Daubney asked: “Graham Stringer, final question, I’d appreciate a one-word answer, if I could. Is Keir Starmer finished?”

Mr Stringer, who is Labour’s last pro-Brexit MP in the House of Commons, replied: “Yes.”

Discussing the impact of the Lord Mandelson scandal, Mr Stringer added: “It’s embarrassing some of the policy documents that have gone out and some of the policy decisions, talk about Chagos or the failure to reform the benefits system.

“There are a whole series of things that are embarrassing. But overall [the Mandelson scandal] is just simply appalling, and we have to put it right.

“Again, I’ve said in this studio, we should give the Prime Minister time to put it right. He’s not put it right. He’s dug himself deeper into a hole.

“The apology he made today, it wasn’t a completely full but he should have started yesterday [with it].

“Be honest, promise the documents and say, ‘I am sorry, I did it for the best reasons but I misjudged it’.

“It wouldn’t have completely absolved him but it would have stopped the leader of the opposition, Kemi Badenoch, nailing him because he wasn’t forthright to begin with.”

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