The Treasury minister finally fell on her sword less than four weeks after the Daily Mail first revealed the extent of allegations levelled at her and her family in Bangladesh.
Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander acknowledges the need for modernisation yet her party gave the rail unions a bumper pay deal without insisting on reform.
Starmer's latest duplicity concerns the plight of 3.8million women who claim they lost thousands of pounds because of bungled increases to the state pension age.
When a suspected foreign spy manages to infiltrate the highest echelons of the British establishment, it must surely be in the national interest for that person's identity to be exposed.
DAILY MAIL COMMENT: The latest scandal over the Duke of York's links with a Chinese businessman suspected of spying for Beijing, takes Andrew's sins and misdemeanours to a whole new level.
DAILY MAIL COMMENT The bright and bubbly ten-year-old endured unimaginable barbarity at the hands of her evil father Urfan Sharif and stepmother Beinash Batool.