Lord Mandelson resigns from Labour Party over Epstein links

Lord Peter Mandelson said he resigned as a member of the Labor Party because he did not want to “cause further embarrassment” over his links to Jeffrey Epstein.

The announcement comes at the end of a weekend of mounting pressure on the convicted sex offender following the release of more than three million documents by the US Department of Justice on Friday.

Some of the so-called Epstein files included conversations between the colleague and Epstein. Lord Mandelson was removed from his post as US ambassador last year due to his links to Epstein.

Lord Mandelson said he wrote to Labor Party general secretary Hollie Ridley on Sunday evening informing her that she was resigning from the party.

In his letter, he said: “This weekend I became even more involved in the understandable anger surrounding Jeffrey Epstein, and I am remorseful and sorry about that.

“Allegations that he made financial payments to me 20 years ago, which I believe to be false and of which I have no record or recollection, need to be investigated by me.

“I do not wish to cause further embarrassment to the Labor Party by doing this and that is why I am resigning from the party.”

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