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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Jessica Elgot, Pippa Crerar and Emine Sinmaz

Mandelson should no longer be a peer, says Starmer

Peter Mandelson pictured in the House of Lords in 2008
Peter Mandelson in the House of Lords in 2008. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

Keir Starmer has demanded Peter Mandelson resign from the House of Lords and urged the upper chamber to modernise its disciplinary procedures to allow peers to be stripped of their titles.

The cabinet secretary, the UK’s most senior civil servant, will also investigate Mandelson’s actions as business secretary when Labour was last in power, after emails to Jeffrey Epstein about highly sensitive government policy emerged.

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