Peter Mandelson has been sacked as British Ambassador to the United States after further revelations emerged about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. The Prime Minister Keir Starmer dismissed Mandelson less than 24 hours after insisting: ‘I have confidence in him’. Foreign Office minister Stephen Doughty told the House of Commons this morning that Mandelson was dismissed ‘in light of additional information’.

Mandelson has now become the first public figure in modern British history to have been forced out office for three different scandals across four different decades.

It follows two days of controversy after emails between Mandelson and the paedophile financier were published. In one letter, he called Epstein his ‘best pal’. The messages revealed that the former Business Secretary

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