Starmer may resign within a week

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer may be forced to resign within a week. The reason for such conversations was a scandal with the appointment of Peter Mandelson, who was friends with American financier Jeffrey Epstein convicted of pedophilia, to the post of British ambassador to the United States, Bloomberg reports.

This scandal has already led to the resignation of the British Prime Minister's Chief of Staff Morgan McSweeney, who resigned on Sunday.

According to Bloomberg, some Labor Party MPs were surprised that Starmer still retains his post, although it was he who authorized Mandelson's appointment as ambassador. The agency said that some employees at 10 Downing Street are privately urging government members to convince the prime minister to resign, or threaten their resignation to provoke his departure. According to an adviser to one of the ministers, the probability that Starmer will resign next week is "50-50."