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David Hughes

Starmer: Mandelson ‘should not be a member of the House of Lords’

Lord Mandelson resigned from the Labour Party on Sunday (Niall Carson/PA) - (PA Archive)

Sir Keir Starmer believes Lord Mandelson should no longer sit in Parliament following further revelations about the peer’s links to paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein.

Downing Street said Sir Keir believed the former ambassador to the US “should not be a member of the House of Lords or use the title”, but the Prime Minister does not have the power to strip him of his peerage.

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