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Sir Keir Starmer demanded former Prime Minister Boris Johnson resign for misleading Parliament on no less than six occasions. Analysis seen by the Daily Express revealed the figure just moments after it was reported that Sir Keir appointed Lord Mandelson as US Ambassador despite the disgraced peer failing his security vetting.

Security officials denied the clear Lord Mandelson during the process through which he became US Ambassador. But the Prime Minister went ahead and appointed him to the plum Washington post anyway. Following the peer’s resignation over his links to the paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein, Sir Kier repeatedly said that the correct processes had been followed.

Responding, Kemi Badenoch said: “Last September, Keir Starmer told Parliament three times that ‘full due process’ was followed over the appointment of Lord Mandelson. We now know the Prime Minister misled the House. The Prime Minister must take responsibility.”

Now the Daily Express can reveal that Sir Keir Starmer himself demanded the resignation of former Prime Minister Boris Johnson for the exact same indiscretion for which he is now accused.

Posting on the social media platform X, then known as Twitter, Sir Keir flatly demanded Mr Johnson step down from his role after it emerged he had misled parliament over parties inside No10 Downing Street.

The leader of the opposition, Sir Keir took to the platform to demand the resignation in a post that received widespread media coverage.

Today, the Prime Minister now faces the same accusation. Reform UK leader Nigel Farage wrote on X this afternoon: “Keir Starmer said in February that the security services had given Mandelson ‘clearance for the role’. Now we discover that he has blatantly lied, the Prime Minister should resign.”

Sir Keir accused the former-PM of seriously degrading the office of Prime Minister after Downing Street said sorry to the Queen for two parties held in No10 the night before Prince Philip’s funeral.

He wrote: “This shows just how seriously Boris Johnson has degraded the office of Prime Minister.

“The Conservatives have let Britain down.

“An apology isn’t the only thing the Prime Minister should be offering the palace today.

“Boris Johnson should resign.”

Sir Keir would go on to say that he wanted to see the Gray report in full, writing on X: “I want to see the Gray report in full.

“Our country faces huge challenges and it’s offensive that the Government’s sole focus is on cleaning up after themselves.

“Britain deserves better. The Prime Minister is unfit for office and must resign.”

In another post on social media then leader of the opposition Sir Keir Starmer said that “honesty and decency matter” as he demanded Mr Johnson “do the decent thing and resign” for misleading the House of Commons.

He faces the same accusations himself, with Ed Davey the leader of the Liberal Democrats saying this afternoon that Sir Keir must step down if he “misled Parliament and lied to the British public” over Lord Peter Mandelson’s vetting as US ambassador.

The Liberal Democrat leader said: “Keir Starmer had already made a catastrophic error of judgment. Now it looks as though he has also misled Parliament and lied to the British public. If that is the case, he must go.”

After former Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and then-Chancellor Rishi Sunak were found to have broken the law by attending parties in No10, Sir Keir took to social media saying that their pair of them “must resign”.

He accused the pair of misleading parliament saying that they had “lied”.

Now he stands accused of the same thing, with the Green Party MP Sian Berry saying: “Keir Starmer has lied and lied again over his decision to appoint Peter Mandelson and he must resign. Starmer told Parliament ‘due process’ had been followed. This report makes clear that was untrue.”

He would even raise the issue in Prime Ministers questions, challenging Boris Johnson and saying:

So we have the Prime Minister attending Downing Street parties—a clear breach of the rules. We have the Prime Minister putting forward a series of ridiculous denials, which he knows are untrue—a clear breach of the ministerial code. That code says:

“Ministers who knowingly mislead Parliament will be expected to offer their resignation”.

The party is over, Prime Minister. The only question is: will the British public kick him out, will his party kick him out, or he will he do the decent thing and resign?

Later he would speak in the House of Commons to make another demand, saying:

I join the comments about Jack Dromey. We will, I think, be doing tributes in due course in relation to Jack.

Well, there we have it: after months of deceit and deception, the pathetic spectacle of a man who has run out of road. The Prime Minister’s defence that he did not realise that he was at a party is so ridiculous that it is actually offensive to the British public. He has finally been forced to admit what everyone knew—that when the whole country was locked down, he was hosting boozy parties in Downing Street. Is he now going to do the decent thing and resign?

Today, Sir Keir is now facing growing pressure from his opponents to follow his own advice and step aside after he repeatedly told MPs that due process was followed in the appointment of Peter Mandelson as US Ambassador.