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The Prime Minister is facing calls from some Labour backbenchers to resign amid questions about his judgment in appointing Lord Mandelson as US ambassador.

The peer’s friendship with paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein was public knowledge at the time.

Sir Keir Starmer gave public backing to Lord Mandelson at Prime Minister’s Questions on Wednesday last week only to sack him the following day after the publication of email exchanges with convicted pedophile Epstein.

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Labour MP Clive Lewis has said Sir Keir Starmer “doesn’t seem up to the job”.

The outspoken voice on the Labour left said: “It feels that he [the prime minister] has lost control within the first year”.

Asked whether he was angry with Lord Mandelson, Sir Keir said: “I’m angry to have been put in that position.”

He also told the broadcaster that “I think it would be better if the detailed allegations that have been made in relation to Peter had been put in front of me before PMQs”.

He also said that “had I known then what I know now, I’d have never appointed” Lord Mandelson’ to the UK’s top job in Washington.