Starmer 'utterly dejected' after battering in parliament over Mandelson appointment | ABC NEWS

Starmer is facing growing pressure to resign over what he knew about Lord Peter Mandelson's ties to Jeffrey Epstein before he was appointed as British ambassador to the United States.
BBC World Service political correspondent Rob Watson says he hasn't seen anything quite like the two-and-a-half-hour grilling of Keir Starmer in UK parliament. Members of Starmer's own Labour Party were among those criticising the Prime Minister. 

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