The Labour Party has been urged to rule out allowing Peter Mandelson to hold the party whip if he returned to the House of Lords, after fresh allegations over his links to paedophile Jeffrey Epstein emerged this weekend.
Mr Mandelson has been on a leave of absence from the House of Lords since he took up his role as US ambassador, meaning he does not currently have the Labour whip. But the party has refused to say whether or not it would be restored if he applied to return to the Lords.
