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Prime Minister Keir Starmer fired UK ambassador Peter Mandelson after emails revealed deeper ties to Jeffrey Epstein than previously known.

Published emails showed Mandelson called Epstein his ‘best pal’ and suggested the financier’s 2008 conviction was wrongful and challengeable.

The dismissal comes days before Trump’s state visit and adds to Starmer’s leadership troubles after his deputy also resigned.

LONDON — U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Thursday fired the country’s ambassador to the United States, Peter Mandelson, over his links to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

In a statement in the House of Commons on Thursday, Foreign Office minister Stephen Doughty

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