British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s position hung by a thread on Monday as he tried to persuade his Labour Party lawmakers not to kick him out of his job after just 19 months in office.
The prime minister lost his chief of staff on Sunday and is rapidly shedding support from Labour legislators after revelations about the relationship between Peter Mandelson, who was appointed by Starmer to be the British Ambassador to Washington, and the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
In a sign of the deepening crisis, Starmer’s director of communications, Tim Allan, said he was quitting Monday to allow a new “team to be built.”
Starmer’s Downing Street office said the prime minister was not considering resigning and was “concentrating on the job in hand.” Starmer was due to address Labour lawmakers behind closed doors in an attempt to rebuild some of his badly weakened authority.
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