WASHINGTON — 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 said the decision came in the wake of the publication this week of emails Mandelson sent to Epstein in the 2000s.

“In light of the additional information in the emails written by Peter Mandelson, the prime minister has asked the foreign secretary to withdraw him as ambassador to the United States,” Doughty said.

He noted that Mandelson’s suggestion that Epstein’s first conviction was “wrongful and should be challenged” was new information.

On Wednesday, The Sun newspaper published emails that it said

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