LONDON (AP) — News that Prime Minister Keir Starmer ignored warnings of senior advisers and appointed Jeffrey Epstein’s pal Peter Mandelson as Britain’s ambassador to the U.S. was bad for the embattled leader. It seems unlikely to improve.

LONDON, March 5 (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Keir Starmer will address a press conference on Thursday afternoon to give an update on the escalating conflict in the Middle East, his spokesman said.

LONDON — Never in the field of human conflict has a British prime minister done so much to look as small as Keir Starmer does now. This Labour government is an embarrassment to the British people and an insult to our American cousins.

Starmer initially blocked American planes from using British bases for the attacks on Iran that started on Saturday. He later agreed to let the United States use bases in England and on Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean to strike Iran’s ballistic missiles and their storage sites, but not to hit other targets.

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer raised the prospect of helping households with soaring energy bills as oil prices hit $100 a barrel with little sign of resolution to the war in Iran.

LONDON, March 16 (Reuters) - Britain is working with allies on a collective plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and restore freedom of navigation in the Middle East but it will not be easy, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Monday.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer was made aware of disgraced former ambassador Peter Mandelson’s “particularly close relationship” with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein prior to his appointment in Washington.