The latest release of data connected to Jeffrey Epstein has revealed a relationship between ‘New Labour’ figure Peter Mandelson—who was appointed the UK ambassador to the U.S. by Prime Minister Keir Starmer—and the sex offender that was deeper than previously known.
London’s Metropolitan Police announced a criminal investigation on Monday after newly released emails showed Mandelson had leaked sensitive government information to Epstein when serving as business secretary. Zia Yusuf, head of policy for Reform UK, said this was proof that Mandelson gave Epstein “an early heads up” of the resignation of then-prime minister Gordon Brown and plans for a multibillion-pound euro zone bailout. He said this was “open and shut stuff,” adding that Mandelson was “going to jail.”
So now there’s proof Peter Mandelson emailed Epstein with an early heads up of:
1) Gordon Brown’s resignation
2) the €500 billion bailout to save the Euro in 2010.
One of the most striking details described in the files is that Mandelson forwarded information about a “highly sensitive meeting” to Epstein within just five minutes after receiving it.
Monologue from today’s Times at One with Andrew Neil:
BETRAYAL
And still the revelations about Peter Mandleson’s betrayals from the heart of government come, each one more jaw-dropping than the last.
We learned earlier this week that he’d tipped off his convicted pedophile…
The issue featured heavily during Wednesday’s session of Prime Minister’s Questions, with Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch telling Starmer that he “cannot blame the [vetting] process” relating to Mandelson’s appointment as U.S. ambassador since information about Mandelson’s relationship with Epstein “was on Google.” Badenoch added that it was “shocking” to hear the PM admit his team knew about this relationship, even if—in Starmer’s words—Mandelson “completely misrepresented the extent” of it.
The BBC, in its analysis of this parliamentary exchange, commented that Starmer sought to “bury Lord Mandelson and put as much distance as he possibly can between him and the man he appointed the UK’s Ambassador to the United States,” but “the questions will continue to swirl about the prime minister’s judgement in appointing him to the job in Washington.”
Questions have even been coming from Starmer’s own MPs, whose mood is said to have shifted following the latest release. The Sun journalist Jack Elsom said on Wednesday morning that while “up until now Labour MPs have been pretty glum and unhappy … now it feels like a powder keg waiting to blow. The Mandelson scandal has a life of its own that can’t be contained.”
And former PM Gordon Brown is now reportedly accusing Number 10 of a “cover-up.” This issue, clearly, will not go away easily.
The same release has also increased pressure on Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, the former prince, who is now expected to move out of his Royal Lodge home earlier than planned, as pressure mounts for him to give evidence in the U.S. over his relationship with the paedophile financier.
And it has swept up other officials across Europe, including Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico’s national security adviser, Miroslav Lajčák, who resigned after the files revealed email exchanges with Epstein discussing young women.
Michael Curzon is a news writer for europeanconservative.com based in England’s Midlands. He is also Editor of Bournbrook Magazine, which he founded in 2019, and previously wrote for London’s Express Online. His Twitter handle is @MichaelCurzon_.
