PETER Mandelson has been fired as US ambassador amid a deepening scandal into his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein.

Sir Keir Starmer has sacked the Labour peer with immediate effect after emails showed him calling the late paedophile his "best pal".

It is the third time Lord Mandelson has been booted from government having twice been forced to resign under PM Tony Blair.

Only yesterday Sir Keir insisted he retained “full confidence” in him, and this morning ministers said the PM was standing by him.

Lord Mandelson had come under intense pressure after evidence passed to a US Congress committee exposed the details of his friendship with Epstein.

Calls for his sacking intensified after The Sun revealed bombshell emails of the peer coaching the late disgraced financier through his convi

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