In the same Times interview, Mandelson, who twice resigned from the New Labour government, said being sacked as U.S. ambassador last September \u201cfelt like being killed without actually dying.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve had a lot of bad luck, no doubt some of it of my own making,\u201d he said. The Times interview was conducted on January 25 \u2014\u00a0before the latest tranche of documents was published \u2013 and the paper also spoke to Mandelson on Sunday.<\/p>\n
U.K. minister Karin Smyth, speaking for the U.K. government on Tuesday morning, criticized Mandelson\u2019s lack of self-awareness.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m sure you\u2019ve seen and interviewed over time, men that have been involved in similar sorts of behavior, seem to not be able to recognize their own self in that,\u201d Smith told Sky News presenter Sophy Ridge.<\/p>\n
Smith said Mandelson should testify before U.S. Congress, if asked, adding: \u201cAnybody who\u2019s got information should support the investigation, should be as open as they can be.\u201d <\/p>\n
Newly released Epstein files appear to show Mandelson shared sensitive government policy decisions<\/a> with the disgraced financier. They also suggest Epstein made payments<\/a> linked to Mandelson. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the same Times interview, Mandelson, who twice resigned from the New Labour government, said being sacked as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":739427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[748,1193,6659,393,4884,16467,807,1144,3209,28300,712,1200,16,15,49,1764,1202],"class_list":["post-739426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uk","category-united-kingdom","tag-britain","tag-british-politics","tag-crisis","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-karin-smyth","tag-keir-starmer","tag-northern-ireland","tag-payments","tag-peter-mandelson","tag-scotland","tag-tax","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-united-states","tag-wales","tag-westminster-bubble"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116006490267138542","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739426","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=739426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/739427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=739426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=739426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=739426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}