#peter-mandelson

#peter-mandelson

Many of us were devastated by [deputy PM] Angela Rayner's departure from the government last week. She's an extraordinary woman who's overcome the most extraordinary challenges and we are grieving and feel quite acutely that sense of loss. Now to have the dismissal of Peter Mandelson just the next week, I totally get it, of course Labour MPs will be despondent that in two weeks in a row we have seen significant resignations from public service.

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Lord Peter Mandelson once memorably said he was intensely relaxed about people getting filthy rich. Indeed over three decades at the top of British public life, he has shown a penchant for relaxing intensely in the yachts, homes and holiday pads of the super-wealthy. When the Labour peer was made ambassador to Donald Trump's White House, he promised to stay below the radar but the merest glance at his past record showed that to be a highly unlikely prospect.

The UK's ambassador to the US, Peter Mandelson, allegedly called the late paedophile Jeffery Epstein his "best pal" in a birthday message made public by a US congressional committee. Democrats on the House Oversight Committee released a copy of an alleged "birthday album " put together by the disgraced financier's co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell, which was received along with other documents from the deceased billionaire's estate, on Monday (8 September).