"Quick update on Keir Starmer's government of national renewal: having just lost his deputy and housing secretary over her failure to pay the required stamp duty, the prime minister has also lost his US ambassador over his known close association with a known paedophile sex trafficker. Hang on he's now also lost his director of political strategy for relating some dirty jokes about Diane Abbott."
"Meanwhile, an increasing number of people think the solution to all this is Andy Burnham taking over, suggesting the current Greater Manchester mayor could run in a parliamentary seat that has only notionally become free because the previous Labour MP was suspended from the party after being found to have sent messages hoping a couple of constituents would soon be dead/mown down, and is now apparently off sick."
The government has suffered multiple high-profile departures: the deputy and housing secretary over unpaid stamp duty, the US ambassador for a close association with a known paedophile sex trafficker, and the director of political strategy over telling dirty jokes about Diane Abbott. Public discussion increasingly promotes Andy Burnham as a potential alternative, with suggestions he could contest a parliamentary seat vacated only after a Labour MP was suspended for sending messages wishing harm on constituents and is currently off sick. A US presidential visit coincides with resurfaced Peter Mandelson emails to Jeffrey Epstein, prompting criticism of institutionalised looking away and questions about the prime minister's judgment.
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