Updated September 11, 2025 at 7:33 AM MST

LONDON — Days before President Trump arrives in the United Kingdom for a state visit, the U.K. has fired its ambassador to Washington over links to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein .

In 2008, before becoming ambassador to the United States, Peter Mandelson — a former Cabinet minister and European Union trade commissioner from the center-left Labour Party — wrote Epstein an email saying, "I think the world of you and I feel hopeless and furious about what has happened."

In another, he wrote: "Your friends stay with you and love you."

Mandelson's emails, published Wednesday by The Sun newspaper, were sent after Epstein was indicted by a grand jury in 2006. The New York financier pleaded guilty two years later to soliciting sex wit

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