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Reform UK
leader Nigel Farage has called for the prime minister to stand down.
Posting
on X, Farage said: “It’s time for Keir Starmer to go.”
Farage
told broadcasters that the Foreign Office’s top civil servant Olly Robbins is
the “sacrificial lamb in an attempt to try and save the Prime Minister”.
He told
LBC: “None of this adds up, the idea they weren’t told about the vetting.
Remember, in the House of Commons, Starmer actually said that the vetting had
told him about the ongoing relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, then outside of
the House, in Hastings, he gave a speech in which he said that Mandelson had
cleared security vetting.
“They are
all over the place on this, it is totally unbelievable and Robbins, he’s the
sacrificial lamb in an attempt to try and save the Prime Minister, and it just
isn’t good enough.”
Farage
said it is not credible or believable that the Government waited until Thursday
to reveal security vetting procedures had been overruled because it wanted to
launch a “full-scale investigation”.
The
Reform UK leader told LBC the explanation is: “Just not credible, not
believable in any way at all. I am in absolutely no doubt in my mind that this
Prime Minister misled the House of Commons and lied to the country outside of
the House of Commons.”
Farage
said Robbins is “one of the most professional civil servants in this country”
and “there is no way” he would have decided to overrule security vetting
procedures alone.
The
Reform UK leader told LBC: “There is no way a man like that would unilaterally
make a decision of this kind, and, equally, the Prime Minister cannot stand up
and say that Mandelson passed security vetting and now claim later he wasn’t
told.
“That’s
not incompetence, even Keir Starmer is not that incompetent, it is outright,
blatant dishonesty.”
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