Peer faces police scrutiny after Keir Starmer orders officials to draw up legislation to kick him out over claims ex-ambassador leaked sensitive information to paedophile financier
Lord Mandelson is to step down from the House of Lords following allegations he passed market-sensitive government information to paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein.
Britain’s former ambassador to the US is facing police scrutiny after the Cabinet Office reported material to detectives after looking at the latest Epstein files.
Downing Street suggested that “safeguards were compromised”, and prime minister Sir Keir Starmer told his cabinet he was appalled at the emails between Mandelson and Epstein, saying the peer had let his country down.
Meanwhile, new revelations about Sarah Ferguson and Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor have also emerged in the documents.
An email to Epstein from a sender called Sarah, believed to be the former Duchess of York, reads: “No woman has ever left the royal family with her head, and the [sic] cannot behead me, therefore they will discredit me.”
Top of page Mandelson and US President Donald Trump who appears in the Epstein files.