Prime Minister Keir Starmer expressed regret yesterday for appointing Peter Mandelson as UK ambassador to Washington, saying the Labour veteran had created a ‘litany of deceit’ about his ties to US sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Starmer ceded to pressure from the opposition Conservative Party to release documents on how Mandelson was appointed, and was forced to water down an attempt to limit the scope of that disclosure after facing a revolt in his own Labour Party.
Mandelson, a government minister when Labour was previously in power more than 15 years ago, quit the House of Lords yesterday over links to Epstein, and is now under police investigation for alleged misconduct in office.
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, the younger brother of King Charles, has moved out of his mansion on the royal estate in Windsor, a royal source confirmed yesterday, following new damaging revelations about his links to Epstein.
His exit from Royal Lodge, his home for decades, marks a new low for the former prince, following years of scrutiny over his connections to Epstein, a scandal that has cast a shadow over Britain’s royal family.
Mountbatten-Windsor, 65, had hoped to stay at the 30-room Georgian mansion for longer, the Sun newspaper said, but he moved under the cover of darkness on Monday and was driven to a cottage in Sandringham, the king’s estate in Norfolk.
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