""I am a fighter not a quitter", Peter Mandelson famously declared when he retained his Hartlepool seat in the 2001 election. Mandelson had his front-rank political career resurrected three times subsequently: as an EU commissioner; as business secretary and de facto deputy prime minister to Gordon Brown in 2009, and as ambassador to Washington in 2025. That third resignation - or, more accurately, sacking - is almost certainly going to be his last."
"While the previous tranche of the Epstein files focussed on whether it was politically and personally unwise for Lord Mandelson to continue to associate with a convicted paedophile, the latest revelations raise questions about his conduct in office in 2009 and 2010. Even if Epstein had committed no crimes, it would still be a hugely serious matter for the then business secretary apparently to pass a foreign financier sensitive and potentially advantageous government information."
Peter Mandelson's political career was revived multiple times, culminating in his appointment as ambassador to Washington and a subsequent sacking likely to end his career. New revelations raise questions about his conduct as business secretary in 2009–2010 and suggest he may have passed sensitive, potentially advantageous government information to a foreign financier linked to Epstein. Political parties and prominent figures have called for criminal investigation. Former prime minister Gordon Brown has demanded a wide-ranging Whitehall inquiry with public findings. The prime minister announced an urgent investigation into Mandelson's links with Epstein while he served as a minister.
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