PM promised the voters competence ...so where is it?

AN INDIGNANT Keir Starmer once declared “a fish rots from the head” during an attack on his opponents but it is his Labour government that stinks.

- Sam Lister

Over and over, voters were told he would lead a party with integrity and competence that would restore trust in politicians. Labour cheerleaders sighed with relief that the “grownups are back in charge” when the general election results became clear.

Instead we have sacking after sacking, a flatlining economy, more small boats crossings than before, trade unions holding the country to ransom.

Peter Mandelson’s defenestration is as a result of his own behaviour but who put him in one of the most important jobs of the moment? Starmer.

The peer was forced out of the Cabinet twice during the Blair years. Conservative Sir David Davis summed it up when he said Mandelson had to resign for “not telling the truth” about an interest free loan the first time and helping a business friend — one of the Indian billionaire Hinduja brothers — to get a passport on the second occasion.

“Beyond that, there are still unresolved doubts about his behaviour as the European trade commissioner when he gave concessions to the Russians,” he told the Commons.