{"id":415627,"date":"2025-09-11T11:14:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T11:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/415627\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T11:14:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T11:14:11","slug":"uk-fires-ambassador-to-us-peter-mandelson-over-links-to-epstein-politics-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/415627\/","title":{"rendered":"UK fires ambassador to US Peter Mandelson over links to Epstein | Politics News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"post-label__text\">DEVELOPING STORY<\/strong>DEVELOPING STORY, <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__subhead\">Veteran Labour politician under scrutiny over relationship with the late convicted sex offender, Jeffrey Epstein.<\/p>\n<p>Published On 11 Sep 202511 Sep 2025<\/p>\n<p>Click here to share on social media<\/p>\n<p>share2<\/p>\n<p class=\"rich-share__social-text\">Share<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The United Kingdom has fired Peter Mandelson as ambassador to the United States over his relationship with the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, the British Foreign, Commonwealth &amp; Development Office (FCDO) has said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Mandelson, a veteran Labour politician who was key to the party\u2019s success under former leader Tony Blair, came under heavy scrutiny over his relationship with Epstein after a birthday book was released, including a letter purportedly from Mandelson describing Epstein as \u201cmy best pal\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of list<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cIn light of the additional information in emails written by Peter Mandelson, the prime minister has asked the foreign secretary to withdraw him as ambassador,\u201d the FCDO said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cThe emails show that the depth and extent of Peter Mandelson\u2019s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein is materially different from that known at the time of his appointment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">On Wednesday, The Sun newspaper published emails that it said showed Mandelson telling Epstein to \u201cfight for early release\u201d shortly before he was sentenced to 18 months in prison.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cI think the world of you,\u201d Mandelson told him before he began his sentence for soliciting prostitution from a minor in June 2008.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The emails were published after the Democrats on the US House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform released a 50th birthday album compiled in 2003 for Epstein, who at the time was a wealthy and well-connected financier. In that album, Mandelson called Epstein \u201cmy best pal\u201d in a handwritten note.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The FCDO said the revelation of Mandelson\u2019s suggestion that Epstein\u2019s first conviction was wrongful and should be challenged was \u201cnew information\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>More to come\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DEVELOPING STORYDEVELOPING STORY, Veteran Labour politician under scrutiny over relationship with the late convicted sex offender, Jeffrey Epstein.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415628,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[748,393,299,1234,4884,12,1144,285,712,16,15,49,286,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-415627","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-government","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-northern-ireland","15":"tag-politics","16":"tag-scotland","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-us-canada","21":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}