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BlueWaveNeverEnd

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Tue Feb 3, 2026, 06:56 PM Yesterday

Epstein's pantless friend, Peter Mandelson, steps down from the UK House. creates a crisis for the Labour Govt.





Peter Mandelson, a former British ambassador to the United States who is credited with helping to create the modern version of the Labour Party that propelled Tony Blair to power in 1997, is now facing a criminal investigation stemming from the US Justice Department’s latest release of material relating to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.

Mandelson, 72, is accused of passing on market-sensitive information that was of clear financial interest to Epstein in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. Gordon Brown, Britain’s prime minister at the time, said Tuesday that he has written to the police with information relevant to its investigation and slammed Mandelson for his “inexcusable and unpatriotic” act.

The scandal may have been less potent if Mandelson — who was twice previously forced to resign from government due to his ties to wealthy individuals — had not been plucked from the private sector by Prime Minister Keir Starmer to serve as Britain’s ambassador to Washington, despite his well-known friendship with Epstein.

Although Starmer fired Mandelson as ambassador after just seven months in Washington during the fallout from an earlier release of Epstein files, the prime minister’s initial decision to appoint him has snowballed into a crisis for his beleaguered Labour government, which could yet result in more political scalps.

https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/03/europe/peter-mandelson-epstein-ties-britain-intl-latam
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Epstein's pantless friend, Peter Mandelson, steps down from the UK House. creates a crisis for the Labour Govt. (Original Post) BlueWaveNeverEnd Yesterday OP
It seems that the UK elects just as many idiot criminals to high office as the US does... wcmagumba Yesterday #1
The Blair gang effed up,the Labour PRty malaise Yesterday #2
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