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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
David Hughes

Starmer: I would not have appointed Mandelson ‘had I known then what I know now’

Lord Peter Mandelson and Sir Keir Starmer (Carl Court/PA) - (PA Wire)

Sir Keir Starmer said he would never have appointed Lord Peter Mandelson as the ambassador to the US if he had known the full extent of his relationship with paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein.

The Prime Minister sacked Lord Mandelson last week but has faced questions about his judgment in appointing the peer, whose friendship with Epstein was public knowledge, in the first place.

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