Khaberni - Two deputies were expelled from the British House of Commons after they accused Prime Minister Keir Starmer of lying during a discussion on appointing Peter Mandelson as the ambassador to the United States, despite his failure in the security check.
During the session held on Monday, the Speaker of the House ordered Lee Anderson, a member of the Reform UK Party, to leave the room after he insisted on accusing Starmer of lying and refused to retract his statements that described the prime minister as "unable to speak a true word even if he were lying in bed."
In a more intense scene, deputy Zarah Sultana, the co-founder of the "Your Party," defied the Speaker's order to leave after she called Starmer "a brazen liar" and accused him of "deceiving the nation," prompting the Speaker to call a vote that led to her suspension from parliamentary services.
These developments came after Starmer revealed that Lord Mandelson, the former minister who was dismissed last year due to his relationship with the late Jeffrey Epstein, a convicted sex offender, was appointed as ambassador to Washington despite security experts' recommendation not to grant him the clearance, following intervention by officials from the Foreign Office.
The Prime Minister acknowledged that he was not informed that Mandelson had failed the security check, taking personal responsibility for the final decision on the appointment, but he dismissed senior civil servants in the Foreign Office after discovering that Mandelson's scrutiny status had been granted despite the security agency's rejection.
