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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Alexandra Topping Political correspondent

Cabinet Office to ask Mandelson to provide messages from personal phone

Peter Mandelson gets into a car
Peter Mandelson was sacked from his Washington role in September last year over his links with Jeffrey Epstein. Photograph: Justin Tallis/AFP/Getty Images

Peter Mandelson will be asked to supply messages from his personal phone as part of the investigation into his appointment as Keir Starmer’s ambassador to the US.

In February, MPs forced the government to commit to publishing tens of thousands of documents after a controversy erupted over the prime minister’s awareness of the former peer’s links to the convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein before he was given the prestigious posting.

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