Caption: Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer

LONDON – British Prime Minister Keir Starmer “is concentrating on the job in hand” and will not resign, his official spokesman said Monday, as the embattled leader faces intense pressure over the Epstein scandal.

Starmer was “getting on with the job of delivering change across the country”, the spokesman told reporters, hours after the prime minister’s communications chief and chief of staff both resigned.

The Labour leader, in office for 19 months, is himself facing calls from opposition politicians to resign over the appointment of Peter Mandelson as US ambassador, despite knowing Mandelson had maintained links to Epstein after the US sex offender was convicted in 2008.

And Starmer’s communications chief quit on Monday, Downing Street confirmed, in the latest blow to the embattled leader as his government struggles with fallout from the Jeffrey Epstein scandal.

“I have decided to stand down to allow a new No. 10 team to be built,” Tim Allan said in a short statement — less than 24 hours after Starmer’s chief of staff also resigned. (AFP)