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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Nina Lloyd

Kyle doubles down on claim Mandelson was appointed for his ‘talents’

Lord Mandelson was sacked as UK ambassador to the US (PA) - (PA Wire)

Peter Kyle has doubled down on his defence of Lord Peter Mandelson’s appointment as Britain’s former ambassador to the US despite his known association with paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein.

The Business Secretary came under fire last week for suggesting that the Labour grandee’s “singular talents” meant he was deemed “worth the risk.”

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