The latest appalling revelations surrounding Peter Mandelson’s links to Jeffrey Epstein present Keir Starmer with a gigantic diplomatic dilemma.
By rights, he should sack Mandelson, the UK’s envoy in Washington. Mandelson’s gushing “my best pal” and “We love you, Jeffrey” birthday note, with the preening photo of him in a bathrobe with Epstein, was bad enough. The disclosure that he secretly brokered a banking deal with Epstein’s help while he was a member of the British cabinet was worse.
