‘Where r u? I miss you’: how vivid new Epstein emails sealed Mandelson’s fate

Peter Mandelson gives a speech in Washington DC in June 2025. Photograph: Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP

It was the evening of 6 May 2010 and, months after being released from jail for procuring a child for prostitution, Jeffrey Epstein was curious as to the result of Britain’s general election.

“Well?” he emailed Peter Mandelson, the then de facto deputy prime minister in Gordon Brown’s government.