British Prime Min­is­ter Keir Starmer vowed Mon­day to fight for his job as rev­e­la­tions about the re­la­tion­ship be­tween the for­mer U.K. am­bas­sador to Wash­ing­ton and Jef­frey Ep­stein spi­ralled in­to a full-blown cri­sis for his 19-month-old gov­ern­ment.

The prime min­is­ter’s au­thor­i­ty with his own Labour Par­ty has been bat­tered by fall­out from the pub­li­ca­tion of files re­lat­ed to Ep­stein — a man he nev­er met and whose sex­u­al mis­con­duct has not im­pli­cat­ed Starmer.

Some law­mak­ers in Starmer’s cen­tre-left Labour Par­ty have called on him to re­sign for his judg­ment in ap­point­ing Pe­ter Man­del­son to the high-pro­file diplo­mat­ic post in 2024, de­spite his ties to the con­vict­ed sex of­fend­er.