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Keir Starmer Mocked Over Mandelson Scandal In Brutal Saturday Night Live Sketch

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Keir Starmer has been mocked over his decision to appoint Peter Mandelson as the UK’s ambassador to America in a brutal Saturday Night Live UK sketch.

The prime minister was portrayed as a confused and indecisive ‘Who Wants To Remain A Millionaire’ contestant on the Sky TV show.

Asked “is it ever a good idea to give Peter Mandelson a job”, the fake PM is presented with four possible answers.

They are no, of course not, not in a million years, and yes.

Actor George Fouracres, who plays Starmer on the show, says “it’s a tricky one” before saying he wants to ask the audience for their view.

After none of them choose yes, the PM says that has “put a seed of doubt ion my mind” and then asks for two wrong answers to be taken away.

With only “not in a million years” and “yes” left, Starmer says: “Oh gosh, this looks so much easier at home.”

He then adds: “I’m afraid I’m just not being presented with the facts.”

Starmer then asks to phone a friend, who turns out to be Mandelson himself.

After asking to go 50-50 again, and despite being left with only “not in a million years” as a possible answer, the prime minister says: “I have my answer. I know it’s not conventional, but I’d like to actually bring back one of the previous options, because I’m going to go with [yes], final answer.”

Asked if he is totally sure, the PM says: “Oh never.”

When told the correct answer was “not in a million years”, he replies: “It’s clear to me now that was the wrong decision. Would I make the same decision again, knowing what I know now? Quite possibly.”

It is not the first time that SNL has mocked the PM.

Last month, Donald Trump shared a clip from the show in which Starmer was presented as a weak and ineffectual prime minister who is scared of the US president.

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Keir Starmer Says He Can Fight And Win Next Election Despite Mandelson Scandal

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Keir Starmer has insisted he can fight and win the next general election despite the mounting speculation he faces an imminent challenge to his leadership.

The prime minister’s political future has been cast into doubt once again following the latest revelations in the Peter Mandelson scandal.

Starmer sacked Sir Olly Robbins, the top civil servant at the Foreign Office, for not telling him UK Security Vetting had recommended Mandelson not be given clearance to become the UK’s ambassador to Washington.

The PM has admitted appointing the shamed peer to the plum diplomatic role was a mistake and insisted he would not have done so had he known.

Labour is also set to suffer major losses in next month’s elections in England, Scotland and Wales.

That could trigger an attempt to unseat the prime minister, even though his critics remain split on who should take over from him.

But in an interview with the Sunday Times, insisted he had no intention of leaving No.10 any time soon.

Asked if he was planning to stay in post, Starmer said: “Of course. We didn’t wait 14 years to get elected, we didn’t change the Labour Party, we didn’t do all that it entailed to win the election and the mandate for change, not to deliver on it.”

Asked if Labour can win the next election with him at the helm, the prime minister said: “I think we can. I think it’s going to be a very important general election.

“It’s likely to be Labour versus Reform. An election where the defining question is, what is it to be British? An election where what I would call patriotic values of tolerance, decency, live and let live, diversity, are under challenge like we’ve never seen before.”

Starmer also claimed that most Labour MPs remain supportive of him.

On the speculation about his job, Starmer said: “In politics, you get this sort of thing all of the time. There is always talk. What you never hear from are all the people who are supportive, loyal and just want to get on with the job. And that is the vast majority of people in the :arliamentary Labour Party.

“They’re pleased to be in power. They’ve waited a long time to be in power. And they just want to get on with their job. They don’t make a lot of noise about it. They don’t talk to journalists about it. It’s really important that is reflected in these debates.”

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Labour MP Repeatedly Refuses To Say He Has ‘Confidence’ In Starmer In Awkward Interview

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A Labour MP repeatedly refused to say he has “confidence” in Keir Starmer during an awkward TV interview.

Dan Carden said there “a lack of ideological vision and strategy at the heart of government” and suggested the prime minister could be forced out of office if the elections on May 7 are as bad for Labour as opinion polls suggest.

Starmer is facing a fresh crisis after it emerged shamed former Labour peer Peter Mandelson was appointed the UK’s ambassador to Washington despite failing to clear security vetting.

The PM reacted by sacking Olly Robbins, the top civil servant in the Foreign Office, for not telling him about the UK Security Vetting assessment.

During an appearance before parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee this week, Robbins claimed there was “constant pressure” from No.10 for Mandelson to be cleared to take up the role.

Carden, who is a member of the committee, told BBC Newsnight it had been “a mistake” to sack Robbins.

Asked by presenter Victoria Derbyshire if he had confidence in the PM, the Liverpool Walton MP said: “He’ll take us into the local elections and I think that will be a moment where the public have been consulted and there will be results.

“All of us as MPs will be looking at what our voters are telling us in those results. But there is definitely a question about the future of the Labour government, the future of Labour Party and what that vision is that we are setting out for the country.”

After Derbyshire asked a second time, Carden said: “Keir Starmer needs to set out where this government is heading and I think it feels right now like we’re going from crisis to crisis and that happens because there is a lack of ideological vision and strategy at the heart of government.

“I wish I wasn’t carrying forward this message, but I think we have to be honest and after the local elections it will be for the [Parliamentary Labour Party] and the leadership to look at where next.”

Asked whether “getting rid” of the PM was the answer, the MP said: “The prime minister has to set out how things are going to be different. We cannot go from crisis to crisis.

“If we have a very bad set of local election results, of course that is the moment where we can reflect on what the public have done at the ballot box, but I think that is the open conversation that will need to be had over these next couple of weeks.”

Carden added: “I want this Labour government to succeed, I would like the prime minister to succeed at doing this, but it’s a real challenge.

“I think decisions like the sacking of Olly Robbins this week just send the wrong signal that this is going in the wrong direction.”

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“Do you have confidence in your PM?”

“He’ll take us into the local elections and that will be a moment where the public have been consulted & there’ll be results.”

Labour MP Dan Carden says “there is definitely a question about the future of the Labour government”.#Newsnight pic.twitter.com/1c8MBzsb6T

— BBC Newsnight (@BBCNewsnight) April 22, 2026

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