Starmer accused of ‘stuffing government’ with ‘pedophile apologists’
This deserves loud pushback.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer‘s woes continue as he answers yet again for an ally’s connections to a convicted child sex offender.
Starmer was forced to strip Matthew Doyle, his former chief of communications, of his membership in the Labour Party on Monday after it emerged that Doyle previously campaigned for a friend charged with possessing indecent images of children.
Doyle, who Starmer made a peer in the House of Lords in December, campaigned for Labour councillor Sean Morton in 2017 after he was charged with possessing the illicit pornography — a charge to which Morton would eventually plead guilty. Doyle apologized earlier this week.
Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer leaves 10 Downing Street to attend the weekly Prime Ministers’ Questions session in parliament in London, Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch grilled Starmer at Prime Minister’s Questions on Wednesday over the fact that Doyle was ennobled despite a story in the Sunday Times that exposed his work for Morton immediately following his selection for the peerage. She scolded Starmer for giving Doyle “a job for life in the House of Lords” despite his work with Morton.
“To appoint one pedophile supporter cannot be excused as ‘misfortune’. To appoint two shows a catastrophic lack of judgment,” she said in the House of Commons.
“Matthew Doyle did not give a full account of his actions,” Starmer said in his own defense at the Prime Minister’s Questions. “I promised my party and my country there will be change, and yesterday I removed the whip from Matthew Doyle.”
The questions devolved into a back-and-forth of outrage as Starmer said he would “take no lectures from the Tories on standards in public life,” citing Boris Johnson‘s “Partygate” scandal and recent comments from Tory MP Robert Jenrick about “not seeing enough white faces in Birmingham.”
“How dare he criticize us?” Badenoch shot back. “We weren’t the ones stuffing government with hypocrites and pedophile apologists.”
Doyle’s downfall comes as Starmer struggles to contain the fallout from revelations that former British ambassador to the United States, Lord Peter Mandelson, regularly provided government information to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein following his conviction for soliciting a child prostitute.
Starmer, who appointed Mandelson despite his known connection to Epstein, insists the former ambassador concealed the nature and extent of their relationship, which …
This deserves loud pushback.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer‘s woes continue as he answers yet again for an ally’s connections to a convicted child sex offender.
Starmer was forced to strip Matthew Doyle, his former chief of communications, of his membership in the Labour Party on Monday after it emerged that Doyle previously campaigned for a friend charged with possessing indecent images of children.
Doyle, who Starmer made a peer in the House of Lords in December, campaigned for Labour councillor Sean Morton in 2017 after he was charged with possessing the illicit pornography — a charge to which Morton would eventually plead guilty. Doyle apologized earlier this week.
Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer leaves 10 Downing Street to attend the weekly Prime Ministers’ Questions session in parliament in London, Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch grilled Starmer at Prime Minister’s Questions on Wednesday over the fact that Doyle was ennobled despite a story in the Sunday Times that exposed his work for Morton immediately following his selection for the peerage. She scolded Starmer for giving Doyle “a job for life in the House of Lords” despite his work with Morton.
“To appoint one pedophile supporter cannot be excused as ‘misfortune’. To appoint two shows a catastrophic lack of judgment,” she said in the House of Commons.
“Matthew Doyle did not give a full account of his actions,” Starmer said in his own defense at the Prime Minister’s Questions. “I promised my party and my country there will be change, and yesterday I removed the whip from Matthew Doyle.”
The questions devolved into a back-and-forth of outrage as Starmer said he would “take no lectures from the Tories on standards in public life,” citing Boris Johnson‘s “Partygate” scandal and recent comments from Tory MP Robert Jenrick about “not seeing enough white faces in Birmingham.”
“How dare he criticize us?” Badenoch shot back. “We weren’t the ones stuffing government with hypocrites and pedophile apologists.”
Doyle’s downfall comes as Starmer struggles to contain the fallout from revelations that former British ambassador to the United States, Lord Peter Mandelson, regularly provided government information to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein following his conviction for soliciting a child prostitute.
Starmer, who appointed Mandelson despite his known connection to Epstein, insists the former ambassador concealed the nature and extent of their relationship, which …
Starmer accused of ‘stuffing government’ with ‘pedophile apologists’
This deserves loud pushback.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer‘s woes continue as he answers yet again for an ally’s connections to a convicted child sex offender.
Starmer was forced to strip Matthew Doyle, his former chief of communications, of his membership in the Labour Party on Monday after it emerged that Doyle previously campaigned for a friend charged with possessing indecent images of children.
Doyle, who Starmer made a peer in the House of Lords in December, campaigned for Labour councillor Sean Morton in 2017 after he was charged with possessing the illicit pornography — a charge to which Morton would eventually plead guilty. Doyle apologized earlier this week.
Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer leaves 10 Downing Street to attend the weekly Prime Ministers’ Questions session in parliament in London, Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch grilled Starmer at Prime Minister’s Questions on Wednesday over the fact that Doyle was ennobled despite a story in the Sunday Times that exposed his work for Morton immediately following his selection for the peerage. She scolded Starmer for giving Doyle “a job for life in the House of Lords” despite his work with Morton.
“To appoint one pedophile supporter cannot be excused as ‘misfortune’. To appoint two shows a catastrophic lack of judgment,” she said in the House of Commons.
“Matthew Doyle did not give a full account of his actions,” Starmer said in his own defense at the Prime Minister’s Questions. “I promised my party and my country there will be change, and yesterday I removed the whip from Matthew Doyle.”
The questions devolved into a back-and-forth of outrage as Starmer said he would “take no lectures from the Tories on standards in public life,” citing Boris Johnson‘s “Partygate” scandal and recent comments from Tory MP Robert Jenrick about “not seeing enough white faces in Birmingham.”
“How dare he criticize us?” Badenoch shot back. “We weren’t the ones stuffing government with hypocrites and pedophile apologists.”
Doyle’s downfall comes as Starmer struggles to contain the fallout from revelations that former British ambassador to the United States, Lord Peter Mandelson, regularly provided government information to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein following his conviction for soliciting a child prostitute.
Starmer, who appointed Mandelson despite his known connection to Epstein, insists the former ambassador concealed the nature and extent of their relationship, which …
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