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The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Keir Starmer, dismissed the British ambassador to the United States Peter Mandels for his connection with Jeffrey Epstein.
On Thursday, the Minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Stephen Doughty, said in the House of Commons that the decision occurred following the Electronic Publication Mandelson sent Epstein in the 2000s, in which he provided his support for the dishonored financial even when he faced the prison for sexual crimes.
Doughty said the correspondence showed that the “depth and extension” of Mandelson’s friendship with Epstein was “materially different” from what was known at the time of last year’s appointment.
Peter Mandelson attends the fourth annual King’s Trust Annual Gala Annual King’s Trust on May 1, 2025 in New York City.
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“In the light of additional information in the emails written by Peter Mandelson, the prime minister asked the Secretary of Foreign Affairs to withdraw him as an ambassador to the United States,” Doughty said.
He pointed out Mandelson’s suggestion in the emails that Epstein’s first sentence in 2008 was “illegal and should be challenged.”
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Mandelson, who assumed his role in February, said in An interview with the British journalist Harry Cole On Wednesday that “deeply” lamented his friendship with Epstein, after the supervision committee of the US House of Representatives. UU. He released a note that wrote to the sexual offender in a “”Birthday book“Equipped the former New York City entrepreneur on his 50th birthday.
Part of Peter Mandelson’s note written to Jeffrey Epstein on his 50th birthday.
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Initially, Starmer showed Mandelson support after the launch of the note, stating that his government still had total confidence in Mandelson and that he obviously focused on our relationship with the United States, with President Trump arriving at a second unprecedented state visit next week. “
Mandelson told Cole that “he accepted the guarantees that he (Epstein) had given me about his accusation, his original criminal case in Florida. Like many people, I took that to the letter,” a decision that said he wanted to have never taken.
Mandelson said Wednesday that he does not believe he is appointed in Epstein’s archives, but admitted that there is no doubt that there is more “correspondence” between him and Epstein than “goes to the surface.”
The United Kingdom government announced that James Roscoe, deputy director of Mission in Washington, will serve as an interim ambassador and will supervise the visit of the state of the president of the United States, Donald Trump. Roscoe is a career diplomat and former head of communications of the late queen Elizabeth II.
Starmer’s trial is being examined more and more, particularly because of his appointment of Mandelson, who is no stranger to the controversy, which has twice renounced the government of former Prime Minister Tony Blair in 1998 and 2001.
– With Associated Press files
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