UK ambassador to the US fired for links to Jeffery Epstein

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Sir Keir Starmer has sacked Peter Mandelson as ambassador to the United States, Foreign Office minister Stephen Doughty has told MPs.

His departure will be a huge blow for No 10 as it prepares a state visit for the US president, Donald Trump, who is also facing his own questions about his friendship with Epstein.

Keir Starmer had stood behind Mandelson after appointing him as US ambassador earlier this year, insisting that he had been fully vetted.

However, Mandelson faced overwhelming pressure to go after it emerged that he told Epstein to fight for early release from jail as the disgraced financier faced an 18-month sentence for procuring a child for prostitution and soliciting a prostitute in 2008.

The emails were published by the Sun after circulating in Washington DC, hours after Mandelson admitted on Tuesday that more “very embarrassing” details of his friendship with Epstein were likely to emerge. He insisted he had never witnessed any “wrongdoing”.

In an email from June 2008, which was not disputed by his spokesperson, Mandelson wrote to Epstein: “I think the world of you and I feel hopeless and furious about what has happened.

“I can still barely understand it. It just could not happen in Britain. You have to be incredibly resilient, fight for early release and be philosophical about it as much as you can.”

It continued: “Everything can be turned into an opportunity and that you will come through it and be stronger for it.”

The friendship between the two men came under renewed spotlight after Democratic members of the US House oversight committee released Epstein’s 50th “birthday book”, in which Mandelson called him “my best pal” in a handwritten note.
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Trump is due to visit the UK next week. :popcorn:
 
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"I can still barely understand it. It just could not happen in Britain"

Coming from someone who at the time was an extremely influential person in the UK government that's probably what punched his card. What the fukk does he even mean the arrest of a super-rich paedophile "just could not happen in Britain"?

If he gets away with just being sacked, he's lucky. shyt stinks to high heaven... a statement like that would produce a public enquiry in any other era.
 
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88m3 said:
Was he made ambassador because of his ties to Trump and Epstein?


:patrice:


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The common line has usually been "he's one of the few people capable of working with the Trump administration".

After seeing Mandelson's letters I don't think it's a huge stretch to say that's because they were both part of whatever demonic social circle this was so Trump sees him as one of the boys.
 
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jj23 said:
No. This is just to shore up any chance of controversy in the wake of the missteps and scandals labour has had recently.
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Yeah, agree. But I'm interested if it has any unintended blowbacks anyway.

Trump has been weirdly complimentary of Starmer at times compared to other European leaders... I wonder if that changes without Mandy around to tickle his balls.
 
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