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British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has abruptly fired the U.K.’s ambassador to the United States, Peter Mandelson, following the release of emails revealing he had closer ties to convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein than were previously known.

The string of emails, released by The Sun newspaper on Wednesday, showed Mandelson expressing sympathy and support for Epstein in 2008 as he battled his first conviction for soliciting prostitution from a minor.

Mandelson, a longtime Labor Party politician and strategist, told Epstein to "fight for early release" in legal appeals before Epstein was sentenced to 18 months in prison. "I think the world of you," Mandelson told him before he began his sentence.

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