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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Brian Melley and Jill Lawless

Starmer's pick of Epstein 'pal' as top British envoy haunts prime minister

Britain Epstein Mandelson - (AP)

News that Prime Minister Keir Starmer ignored warnings of senior advisers and appointed Jeffrey Epstein’s pal Peter Mandelson as Britain's ambassador to the U.S. was bad for the embattled leader. It seems unlikely to improve.

Starmer continues to weather the fallout from Mandelson's appointment — and later sacking — but the nearly 150 pages of documents released by his government Wednesday were just a small fraction of the thousands of pages still to come.

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