UK Ambassador to the US Peter Mandelson enjoyed a close personal relationship with notorious pedophile Jeffrey Epstein – and the Labour Party eminence continued to support his “best pal” even after Epstein copped in 2008 to soliciting sex from a minor in Florida, newly released emails show.

Mandelson, 71, expressed outrage over the charges against Epstein , encouraging the disgraced financier to “fight for early release” while expressing his “love” for him, according to messages obtained by Bloomberg News .

“I think the world of you and I feel hopeless and furious about what has happened,” Mandelson wrote in a June 2008 email to Epstein. “I can still barely understand it. It just could not happen in Britain.” 3

Mandelson was serving as the European Union’s commissioner for

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