UK premier Keir Starmer insisted he would not “walk away” on Monday after a prominent ally demanded the prime minister quit for embroiling the British government in the Jeffrey Epstein scandal. Senior ministers rallied around him over the most serious crisis yet of his stuttering 19-month premiership, as a rising far-right challenges him in the polls. “After having fought so hard for the chance to change our country, I’m not prepared to walk away from my mandate and my responsibility,” Starmer told Labour MPs at a crunch meeting where he was greeted with applause. The beleaguered prime minister appeared defiant as he insisted he had “won every fight I’ve ever been in”.
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