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Peter Mandelson says he’s stepping all the way down to keep away from inflicting additional embarrassment to the governing social gathering.
Printed On 2 Feb 2026
Peter Mandelson, the UK’s former ambassador to america, has resigned from Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Labour Get together following additional revelations of his hyperlinks to the late intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein, British media have reported.
Mandelson, who was eliminated as London’s high consultant in Washington final 12 months following the emergence of emails detailing his associations with Epstein, stated he had resigned to keep away from inflicting additional embarrassment to the governing social gathering, the reviews stated on Sunday.
“I’ve been additional linked this weekend to the comprehensible furore surrounding Jeffrey Epstein and I really feel regretful and sorry about this,” Mandelson stated in a letter reported by BBC and The Guardian.
Mandelson stated he believed that reviews over the weekend that he had obtained quite a few funds from Epstein within the early 2000s had been false however that he wanted to analyze them, the reviews stated.
“Whereas doing this I don’t want to trigger additional embarrassment to the Labour Get together and I’m subsequently stepping down from membership of the social gathering,” Mandelson stated, in accordance with the reviews.
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