"A former UK Labour minister supported a campaign to undermine the Rudd Labor government's proposed mining super profits tax in Australia, a document published in the latest tranche of the Epstein files reveals. Lord Peter Mandelson, once one of British Labour's most powerful figures, was sacked last year as the UK's ambassador to the US over his links with the disgraced financier, rapist and human trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. This week, Mandelson resigned from the Labour party altogether as further revelations in documents released by the US Department of Justice show the pair's close links, even after Epstein was convicted of child sex offences."
"Mandelson is facing a possible police investigation into his alleged leak of market-sensitive information from inside the Brown government to Epstein at the height of the financial crisis. The latest Epstein file documents also contain an email Mandelson sent to Epstein in June 2010, when Australia's mining industry was waging a coordinated campaign against the then Rudd Labor government's proposed 40% mining super profits tax. At the time Mandelson had just lost his post as the UK's first secretary of state, a position often equated to deputy prime minister, after Labour was defeated in the May general election."
"Mandelson exhorts the recipient of the original email: you need to build the broadest possible coalition to pressure the Australian government, then led by Labor prime minister Kevin Rudd, to back down on the proposed tax. The pressure which the industry has applied, with the strong focus on jobs and social impact, is clearly having an effect on a government which is already under pressue.(sic)"
Lord Peter Mandelson shared an email from June 2010 that contained a private analysis of the mining industry's strategy to fight a proposed 40% mining super profits tax in Australia. The email included material from then XStrata chief executive Mick Davis and urged building a broad coalition to pressure Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's government to abandon the tax. Mandelson had recently lost his senior UK government post and later resigned from the Labour party amid revelations of his links to Jeffrey Epstein. Mandelson also faces a possible police inquiry over alleged leaks of market-sensitive information to Epstein.
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