Wes Streeting has admitted he failed to take reports of Peter Mandelson’s links to paedophile Jeffrey Epstein seriously when they emerged in 2023.
The health secretary, who has faced questions over his political relationship and friendship with the disgraced peer, said he “absolutely” questioned his own judgement on the matter and said there had been a political and media failure to ask enough questions about their relationship before Lord Mandelson took up his post as US ambassador.
