"Keir Starmer knew that Peter Mandelson had had a long and close friendship with Jeffrey Epstein when he appointed him ambassador to Washingon. He also knew that Mandelson has been a scandal magnet for most of his career. But he was not appointing him archbishop of Canterbury. He calculated that Mandelson would be the right person to forge a good relationship with the immoral plutocrat narcissist now running America (also an old friend of Epstein's), and by all accounts Mandelson has done this very successfully."
"His position is completely and utterly untenable and him staying on in post is causing the government and the Labour party further damage. I'm afraid if he doesn't do the right thing and resign today then the prime minister should sack him Angela Rayner did the right thing. She was under pressure for an inadvertent failure to pay tax. This is of a completely different scale."
Keir Starmer appointed Peter Mandelson as ambassador to Washington despite Mandelson's long, close friendship with Jeffrey Epstein and a career marked by scandals. Starmer judged Mandelson suitable to build a strong relationship with the current US leader, an intimate of Epstein, and Mandelson has reportedly succeeded. New revelations about Mandelson's relationship with Epstein and private support for Epstein after criminal charges have intensified calls for his removal. Left-wing MPs Bell Ribeiro-Addy and Kim Johnson demanded dismissal, and Andy McDonald urged immediate resignation, calling Mandelson's position morally untenable and widely opposed within Labour.
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