Throne out

AT every turn during the Jeffrey Epstein scandal, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has refused to do the decent thing.

The former prince has never expressed any true regret about his relationship with the multi-millionaire paedophile, which continued long after Epstein had been convicted for a child sex offence.

Prince Andrew, Duke of York, attending the Easter service at St George's Chapel.Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has refused to do the decent thing at every turn — Keir Starmer must act and strip him from succession to the throneCredit: Getty

against his own accuser Virginia Giuffre, who tragically later took her own life.

— resisting the many attempts by to get him out.

He has never formally apologised to .

Even when he did speak publicly — as during his horror show Newsnight interview in 2019 — .

So any hope that Andrew would was always forlorn.

The public’s view is clear: more than from the line of succession.

It does not matter that the chances of him ever becoming King are vanishingly small.

, is so shocking that the matter should be put beyond any doubt.

So we welcome the decision by Sir to introduce legislation once the into Andrew has been completed.

Originally, the Prime Minister was resistant to such a move on the grounds it would take up Parliamentary time.

This is one No10 U-turn the country can definitely welcome.

Lawyer’s an ass

JUST why IS so desperate to give away the Chagos Islands?

Not only is it a dreadful deal for Britain’s security and terrible value for British taxpayers.

But it is also causing mounting frustration in the , which increasingly regards the UK as an unreliable ally.

First, the Prime Minister said the islands had to be handed to Mauritius to meet international legal obligations.

When it was later proved there is NO legally binding reason why we should do so, Sir Keir insisted it was to “protect national security” — then refused to go into detail.

It has never been properly explained why we must also pay Mauritius £35billion for the privilege.

Now Sir Keir and his legal advisers are in any future strike on Iran — a terrorist state killing Brits at home and abroad, as well as slaughtering thousands of protesters on the streets of Tehran.

The PM’s obsession with keeping his lawyer pals happy is leaving him incapable of making strong decisions in the best interests of Britain and its closest allies.