EMBATTLED US Ambassador Peter Mandelson has confessed to carrying on his friendship with sex monster Jeffrey Epstein “for far longer than I should have done”.

Britain’s top man in Washington branded it an “albatross around his neck” as he pleaded his “deep regret” at remaining in close contact for “many years” with the paedophile financier even after he was convicted for underage sex crimes in 2008.

Remarkably he suggested that because he is gay he may have seen a different side to the predator who died in a New York jail in 2019 under a cloud of sex trafficking allegations involving teenage girls.

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