Jeffrey Epstein files: British PM Keir Starmer fires Peter Mandelson over links to convicted sex offender

London | UK 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 said the decision came in the wake of the publication this week of emails Mandelson sent to Epstein in the 2000s, in which he gave his support to the disgraced financier even when he was facing jail for sex offences. Loading...