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Here’s the advice Keir Starmer received when considering appointing Peter Mandelson as ambassador to the US in December 2024:

Relationship with Jeffrey Epstein

● A 2019 report prepared by JPMorgan revealed that Epstein looked like this:

“Maintaining a particularly close relationship with Duke Prince Andrew

York and Lord Peter Mandelson, a senior member of the English

state”.

● The report cited Epstein’s personal records showing the contact began

It continues in 2002 and into the 2000s.

● After Epstein was first convicted of procuring an underage girl in 2008,

The relationship continued between 2009 and 2011, with Lord Mandelson beginning.

He was Minister of Commerce and continued after the end of Labor

state. Mandelson reportedly stayed at Epstein’s home

In prison in June 2009.

● In 2014, Mandelson also agreed to become a “founding citizen” of the ocean

Protection group founded by Ghislaine Maxwell and funded by Epstein.

● Upon reporting the JP Morgan report, Lord Mandelson’s spokesman said:

“Lord Mandelson deeply regrets being introduced to Epstein.

This connection has been a matter of public record for some time. he never

Had any professional or business relationship with Epstein

format.”

● The Telegraph reported extensively on these links in January 2024 –

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/01/10/lord-mandelson-friendship-jeffr

ey-epstein-keir-starmer/

● A Labor Party spokesman previously commented: “There is

There are a lot of people Keir Starmer is talking to. obviously talking

People who were part of the last Labor government, including Peter

It was Mandelson.”

● The Cabinet Office keeps official records, which are likely to be released by the Cabinet.

National Archives on Tony Blair’s meeting with him early next year

Mandelson facilitated Epstein.

● Cautions – general reputational risk