Britain’s Ambassador to the US, Peter Mandelson, speaks throughout a welcome reception for British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, on the ambassador’s residence on Feb. 26, in Washington, D.C.
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LONDON — British Prime Minister Keir Starmer fired the U.Ok. ambassador to Washington, Peter Mandelson, over hyperlinks to convicted intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein.
In 2008, earlier than turning into ambassador to the U.S., Mandelson wrote Epstein an e-mail saying, “I think the world of you and I feel hopeless and furious about what has happened.”
Photographs have additionally emerged of Mandelson in a bathrobe at Epstein’s dwelling. And there’s a birthday message wherein Mandelson referred to as Epstein “my best pal.”
The British Overseas Workplace says emails present the extent of Mandelson’s relationship with the late intercourse offender was “materially different” from what was recognized on the time he was appointed as ambassador.
Mandelson’s firing might complicate Starmer’s efforts to construct bridges with the Trump administration — simply days earlier than the U.S. president involves the U.Ok. for a state go to.
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