British prime ministers are rarely undone by what they say. More often, they are undone by what they fail to anticipate.
Keir Starmer is under mounting pressure not because of any personal wrongdoing, but because of a political misjudgement that has landed at precisely the wrong moment: the decision to bring Peter Mandelson back into the heart of Labour’s power structure just as the Epstein Files resurfaced in public consciousness.
