Jeffrey Epstein scandal spills into London
On Thursday morning, London announced that the government would recall from Mandelson’s post on Washington DC shortly after 20.00 at Astralia Aest.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said, in the light of additional information in the E -mails written by Peter Mandelson, the Prime Minister asked the Secretary of the Foreign Affairs to withdraw him as ambassadors, ”he said.
US President Donald Trump and Peter Mandelson at the Oval office. Credit: Bloomberg
“E -mail shows that the depth and scope of Peter Mandelson’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein is significantly different from those known during the appointment.
“Especially the new information that Peter Mandelson’s first conviction of Jeffrey Epstein is wrong and should be challenged. In the light of this and as he paid attention to the victims of Epstein’s crimes, he immediately entered into force as ambassadors.”
Everyone knew Mandelson was close to Epstein – and Starmer still appointed him. However, this week, E -mails and other documents appeared to show that Mandelson had to cut all the ties.
A photo shows Mandelson in a white bathrobe with Epstein and seems to be on the private island of the infamous financier in the Caribbean.
There is also a message that caught Trump in the renewed scandal in the infamous “Birthday Book of Mandelson. In 2003, Mandelson, as a Minister of Workers, gushed the “mysterious” Epstein in the gift presented on his 50th birthday. “Whenever he’s in the world, he continues to be my best friend!” He wrote with Epstein drawing under a parachute. He added a statement of Epstein’s friends: “Yum, Yum.” This Monday night appeared.
Cathy Alexander, one of Epstein’s cleaners, Telegram This week, Mandelson stayed on the island of Epstein with his long -term partner Reinaldo Avila Da Silva. The couple met in 1996 and married in 2023.
Some of the revelations emphasized the known facts about Mandelson’s close ties with Epstein before the financier went to jail in 2008. The prosecutors planned to judge Epstein for a maximum of 10 years of sentence on a series of sex charges, but Epstein was found guilty of less state charges and lasted about 18 months. Ten years later, he faced more accusations and died in a Manhattan prison in 2019.
However, the scale of Mandelson’s friend’s assistance shook British politics. Telegram This week, Mandelson announced that Epstein helps Epstein to buy an commodity trader owned by the Scotland Royal Bank for the investment bank JP Morgan, which considers Epstein as a profitable customer.
Mandelson stated that he regretted his relationship with Epstein in interviews this week to control political damage, but he also admitted that more about his past.
“I just feel a tremendous sense of regret for meeting him in the first place, I also continued the association and I got the lies that he fed me and the others,” he said. Sun.
Starmer, conservative party leader Kemi Badenoch’un ambassador to dismiss the ambassador on Wednesday, the labor force ally in Parliament defended.
The Prime Minister said in the House of Commons, “I trust him,” he said.
However, political pressure was only assembled and Starmer chose to minimize more damage. The result is another blow to the stability of the government shortly after a week after giving up the concerns that Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner has not paid all the taxes on the purchase of a coastal property.
More will come.
