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We asked Telegraph readers why they thought the Prime Minister was right to sack Britain’s man in Washington 11 September 2025 11:54am BST Link Lord Mandelson has been sacked by Sir Keir Starmer following damaging revelations about his friendship with the paedophile Jeffrey Epstein. Lord Mandelson’s career has been mired in controversy, with the revelation on Wednesday that the former ambassador consoled and counselled Epstein and urged him to fight for early release, marking the latest in a long line of mishaps. Leaked emails and literature published this week disclosed the close nature of the pair’s relationship with Lord Mandelson calling the disgraced financier his “best pal”. Mike Tapp, the Home Office minister, said that the vetting process ahead of his appointment would have uncovered “all the information” about their relationship. Readers are unanimous in their belief that the Prime Minister was right to sack him. ‘Mandelson drifts from sleaze to sleaze’ Readers questioned why ...

Exclusive: Ambassador to US negotiated sale of UK taxpayer-owned banking business with paedophile financier 09 September 2025 9:48pm BST Daily Telegraph  Link Jeffrey Epstein brokered a deal with Lord Mandelson over the sale of a UK taxpayer-owned banking business after he had been convicted of child sex offences, emails have revealed. The £1bn deal was negotiated while Lord Mandelson was Business Secretary and only months after Epstein had been released from prison. Sempra Commodities, a joint venture between the taxpayer-owned Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and Sempra Energy, was sold to JP Morgan in a deal on which Epstein gave advice to both Lord Mandelson and to Jes Staley, a senior executive with JP Morgan who has since been banned from the City over his relationship with the disgraced financier. On Tuesday night, the Tories demanded an investigation into Lord Mandelson’s close friendship and any commercial dealings with Epstein. They want to know if Epstein, who banked with JP...

 What a week for Reform UK! Reform members update 08/09/25 I’m writing this with a sense of exhilaration and exhaustion after one of the most important weeks in the history of Reform UK. On Monday morning, Richard Tice, our Deputy Leader, kicked off the week in typically Bullish style by launching a press conference in Whitehall on the first day of Parliament after it returned from an extraordinarily long holiday. Of course, our party did not have a sojourn like the others - we seized the agenda and captured the headlines throughout August. Richard unveiled plans to overhaul council-controlled pension funds, which he said are failing to deliver value for money after being blinded by net zero. He went further to say the chronic mismanagement of public sector pensions is costing the taxpayer around £10 BILLION a year. Richard made it very clear that households across the country were paying the price for a ‘gravy train culture of high fees and bad investments’. Across our 13 councils...

This boob-whispering, trans-activist nut sums up the lunacy of the luxury-belief classes. Source - Spiked 02/09/25 link Everything you need to know about the Green Party of England and Wales is contained in the fact that its newly elected leader, Zack Polanski, once told a woman he could make her boobs bigger through the power of thought. It was a decade ago, Polanski was working as a hypnotherapist, and he straight-up told a Sun journalist and possessor of petite 32B breasts that he could expand those puppies with therapy. It’s an ‘extremely new approach’, he said, and a ‘lot cheaper than a boob job’. ‘I feel my nipples begin to tingle’, said the Sun journo as Polanski did his boob-expanding sorcery. How fitting that this boob whisperer is now leader of the Green Party. That a man who once fell for the hocus-pocus bullshit that you could hypnotise flesh itself is now in charge of a party beholden to the hocus-pocus bullshit of trans and End Times climate alarmism. He’s since apologise...

Even Nigel Farage testifying before the US Congress did not convey the full horror of what is happening in the  03 September 2025  Daily Telegraph Link Britain, once the freest, most democratic country in the world, is descending into anarcho-tyranny. Bereft of a moral compass, contemptuous of public opinion, uninterested in our glorious history of ordered freedom, the British state’s nomenklatura are presiding over an intolerable mix of chaos and authoritarianism, failing to tackle genuine criminality while persecuting respectable citizens for their thoughts and speech. The contradictions, double-standards and selective enforcement are a national scandal. They threaten to turn us into a pariah state, shunned or even sanctioned by true believers in liberty. Nigel Farage was in Washington, explaining to shocked Anglophile congressmen just how far we have turned our back on free speech, and yet even the Reform leader couldn’t fully convey in one session the full extent of Britai...

 Firm that handled purchase of £800k Hove flat accuses Deputy PM of ‘scapegoating’ 04 September 2025 Daily Telegraph  Link Angela Rayner’s lawyers claim they did not give her tax advice and have been made “scapegoats”, The Telegraph can disclose. The conveyancing firm that handled the purchase of her £800,000 flat in Hove, East Sussex, insisted it had done nothing wrong and was only acting on the information she provided. “We did not and never have given tax or trust advice,” the firm told The Telegraph. “It’s something we always refer our clients to an accountant or tax expert for.” The comments are a major blow to the Deputy Prime Minister, who has blamed “legal advice that I received” for her failure to pay a £40,000 stamp duty bill on the purchase of her seaside holiday home. Sir Keir Starmer indicated that he was prepared to sack Ms Rayner if his ethics adviser concluded that she broke the ministerial code when underpaying stamp duty. Kemi Badenoch, the Conservative Party...

Angela Rayner’s career is hanging in the balance after she admitted she did not pay enough stamp duty on her second home. Daily Telegraph 03/09/25 Link The Deputy Prime Minister has referred herself to the ministerial ethics adviser after The Telegraph revealed she had dodged £40,000 worth of tax on her £800,000 property on the south coast. She told Sky News that she had considered resigning after The Telegraph broke the story last week, but the decision on her future may now be out of her hands. Sir Keir Starmer cannot sack her from her post as deputy leader of the Labour Party because the position is directly elected by party members, but her role as housing secretary now appears untenable. She paid £30,000 stamp duty on the house in Hove, East Sussex, by claiming it was her main home, instead of the £70,000 she should have paid because it is her second home. Mrs Rayner came clean hours after a court order was overturned that had blocked her from disclosing the full details of her fi...

 The Prime Minister’s claim that the UK protects freedom of expression looks increasingly ridiculous Daily Telegraph 02/09/25 Link Britain’s image in America has taken a beating this year, at least on the political Right. A country once known for tea-drinking Oxford graduates meeting the Queen is increasingly seen as a socialist hellhole where people are arrested for jokes while actual criminals walk away scot-free. As unpleasant and embarrassing as this is, it’s hard to argue that it’s not true. As Nigel Farage was flying across the Atlantic to raise the case of Lucy Connolly and other issues of digital censorship in front of a House of Representatives committee, comedy writer Graham Linehan was flying back the other way to appear at Westminster Magistrates Court to answer charges of harassment. When he touched down at Heathrow, he was promptly arrested by armed police officers and interrogated over a series of posts on X mocking the transgender identity movement. His eventual rel...

The Prime Minister’s actions strongly suggest that he has lost confidence in the Chancellor Telegraph View 01 September 2025  Link With his decision to centralise power in Downing Street at the expense of the Treasury, Sir Keir Starmer has demoted and humiliated Rachel Reeves. The relationship between prime ministers and chancellors is always fraught with danger, but good government depends on an effective division of labour between its two most powerful members. While that relationship endures, much can be achieved. When it breaks down, the end is usually nigh. That happened with Margaret Thatcher and Nigel Lawson as well as Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. More recently, Boris Johnson fell out, first with Sajid Javid and later with Rishi Sunak. Now the same fracture threatens a Labour government that after barely a year is already floundering and deeply unpopular. Sir Keir’s solution is to seize the reins of power from his Chancellor: most visibly, by poaching her deputy, Darren Jone...