The grotesque Mandelson scandal is an epoch-defining indictment of the Labour establishment Daily Telegraph 05/02/26 He is a pathological liar who sold out his country to a foreign paedophile, a sordid, venal Machiavelli who personifies the Dark Tetrad of psychological traits, the reason why Sir Keir Starmer is about to be booted out of Downing Street, but might Peter Mandelson have actually once told the truth? “Petey”, as his mentor Jeffrey Epstein nicknamed him, titled his autobiography The Third Man, perhaps alluding not just to his central role, alongside Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, in building New Labour, including its culture of spin and bullying, but also to the 1949 film noir of the same name, set in Allied-occupied Vienna. The film’s anti-hero, the “third man” in question, played by Orson Welles, was a chThe US Department of Justice emails implicate Mandelson in Britain’s greatest political scandal since the Profumo affair. Epstein was convicted in 2008 of procuring a c...
Prime Minister Keir Starmer is under pressure from Labour MPs to sack his chief of staff, Morgan McSweeney, over his role in the appointment of Peter Mandelson as US ambassador. politics Home 03/02/26 On Tuesday, Mandelson, who was a key figure in the New Labour administrations of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, announced that he was resigning from the House of Lords amid the growing scandal over his relationship with the paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein. The government has also given material to the police after newly disclosed files showed Mandelson sharing confidential and high-level UK government information with Epstein. The Met announced on Tuesday night that it was investigating Mandelson for misconduct in public office. While most Labour MP fury is directed toward Mandelson, there are also renewed calls for Starmer to remove McSweeney, who was instrumental in the decision to appoint him as the UK ambassador to the US. Starmer sacked Mandelson from his ambassador role in S...