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Calls For Criminal Probe Into Lord Mandelson Grow After ‘Shocking’ Leaks To Epstein

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Calls for a police probe into Peter Mandelson have grown amid suggestions the peer leaked sensitive government information to dead paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

The US Department of Justice (DoJ) released a vast trove of documents related to Epstein’s network over the weekend, including his email exchanges with Mandelson.

Their conversations suggested that Mandelson passed Epstein at least one confidential memo when he was the business secretary back in 2009, following the financial crash.

He appeared to forward an economic briefing for then-prime minister Gordon Brown to Epstein, who pleaded guilt to procuring an underage child for prostitution the previous year.

Mandelson added the caption: “Interesting note that’s gone to the PM.”

Their conversations suggest Mandelson gave Epstein advance notice of a €500bn bailout from the EU to save the Euro, too.

These emails have sparked fears about whether Mandelson therefore committed misconduct in a public office, which can lead to a maximum sentence of life behind bars.

Both Reform and the SNP have sent separate referrals to the Metropolitan Police to investigate Mandelson.

A Reform UK spokesperson said: “We have today reported Peter Mandelson to the police for misconduct in public office.

“It’s abundantly clear that Peter Mandelson has abused his position in office. It’s now time the police do their job and properly investigate these shocking new revelations.”

SNP Westminster leader, Stephen Flynn, said “the disgraceful revelations” about Mandelson’s messages to Epstein “are shocking and must be fully investigated by the UK government and all appropriate authorities.”

“There is no question that Lord Mandelson’s actions were shameful and unethical – the only question is the extent to which his actions breached the ministerial code and the law,” he said. “I have, therefore, reported Peter Mandelson to the Metropolitan Police.”

Flynn said: “It is essential these matters are fully investigated to ensure maximum transparency and justice.”

Similarly, Lib Dem leader Ed Davey called for a criminal probe.

He said: “The Epstein files suggest Peter Mandelson leaked sensitive government information to a convicted sex offender while serving as a minister, and even suggested a US bank should threaten the government to lower its tax bill.

“These allegations are incredibly serious, it is now only right that the police investigate Peter Mandelson for potential misconduct in public office.”

Prime Minister Keir Starmer, with then-ambassador to the United States Peter Mandelson during a welcome reception at the ambassador's residence on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025 in Washington.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer, with then-ambassador to the United States Peter Mandelson during a welcome reception at the ambassador’s residence on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025 in Washington.

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Gordon Brown, who was prime minister between 2007 and 2010, also called for a probe after the “shocking” revelation on Monday.

“I have today asked the cabinet secretary to investigate the disclosure of confidential and market sensitive information from the then business department during the global financial crisis,” he said.

He revealed that he asked the cabinet secretary Chris Wormald to investigate “the veracity of information contained in the Epstein papers about the sale of assets arising from the banking collapse and communications about them between Lord Mandelson and Mr Epstein” back in September.

While that enquiry concluded that there was “no departmental record” of these conversations, Brown said these new documents suggested it was time for a “wider and more intensive inquiry”.

He said the probe should look at the “wholly unacceptable disclosure of government papers and information during the period when the country was battling the global financial crisis.”

Brown’s former government adviser Nick Butler also told Times Radio that Mandelson “should be ashamed of the breach of trust and the betrayal of trust that he’s been involved in”.

“I agree with Gordon Brown that there should be a full inquiry now into all the messages from the government at that time to Epstein,” he added.

“How many more messages on really important issues, important issues on which Epstein could have made a lot of money? How many messages were sent in that period? I think Peter should now resign from the Lords. I think that would be the honourable thing to do.”

Chief secretary to the prime minister Darren Jones told MPs that the prime minister has orded the cabinet secretary to investigate Mandelson’s contact with Epstein.

He added: “Whilst Peter Mandelson must account for his actions and conduct, it is an understatement to say that his decision to continue a close relationship with a convicted paedophile, including discussing private government business, falls far below the standards expected of any minister. His behaviour was unequivocally wrong and an insult to the women and girls who suffered.”

Mandelson was sacked as US ambassador in September when it emerged he had remained friendly with Epstein after his 2008 conviction.

He then quit Labour on Sunday night after the documents appeared to show him receiving $75,000 from the late financier, claiming he did not want to cause “further embarrassment”.

Mandelson remains a peer, but prime minister Keir Starmer suggested he should be kicked out of the House of Lords on Monday.

His spokesperson said the government wants to work with the Lords to “strengthen the circumstances in which disgraced members can be removed” from parliament.

He said Starmer “believes that Peter Mandelson should not be a member of the House of Lords or use the title”.

At the moment, it requires an act of parliament is required to removed an individual from the Lords.

A Labour Party spokesman said: “It is right that Peter Mandelson is no longer a member of the Labour Party. Disciplinary action was underway prior to his resignation.

“Jeffrey Epstein’s heinous crimes destroyed the lives of so many women and girls, and our thoughts remain with his victims.”

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Keir Starmer’s Call For Mandelson To Lose His Peerage Is His Biggest U-Turn Yet

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If a week is a long time in politics, 14 months is a lifetime.

Back on December 20, 2024, Keir Starmer said he was “delighted” that Lord Peter Mandelson was going to be the UK’s next ambassador to Washington.

“The United States is one of our most important allies and as we move into a new chapter in our friendship, Peter will bring unrivalled experience to the role and take our partnership from strength to strength,” the prime minister gushed.

Two months later, on February 26 last year, Starmer gently poked fun at Mandelson at a welcome reception hosted at the newly-installed ambassador’s plush residence.

“I’ve only just arrived but already I can feel there’s a real buzz around Washington right now,” said the PM. “You can sense that there’s a new leader. He’s a true one-off, a pioneer in business, in politics.

“Many people love him. Others love to hate him. But to us, he’s just … Peter.”

Less than 12 months on, however, and Starmer has performed what may well be his biggest U-turn yet.

It is a crowded field, of course. In just 18 months in No.10, the prime minister has performed a 180 on winter fuel payments, benefit cuts, the two-child benefit cap, farmers’ inheritance tax and pub business rates, to name just a few.

But his change of position on Mandelson is particularly breathtaking.

Once the indispensable bridge between Downing Street and the White House, the former Labour peer is now persona non grata and should, according to the PM, be expunged from public life forthwith.

Keir Starmer and his former US ambassador Peter Mandelson.

Keir Starmer and his former US ambassador Peter Mandelson.

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In September last year, just hours after telling MPs he retained full confidence in him, Starmer sacked Mandelson over his links to the paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein.

Now, he has gone even further by demanding that that Mandelson – who resigned his Labour membership on Sunday night before the party could kick him out – should lose the peerage given to him by Gordon Brown in 2009.

“The prime minister believes that Peter Mandelson should not be a member of the House of Lords or use the title,” his spokesman said on Monday.

“We want to reform the House of Lords and that includes strengthening the circumstances in which disgraced members can be removed.”

Of course, no one will shed any tears for Mandelson, who maintained contact with his “best pal” Epstein even after his conviction for soliciting a child for prostitution.

A fresh trove of documents released by the US Department of Justice over the weekend also suggest that the former business secretary received $75,000 from the late billionaire financier, and sent him highly-sensitive, market-moving government information while sitting round the cabinet table.

Starmer has been left with no option other than to cut all ties with the man he lauded less than a year ago.

But this mother of all U-turns once again exposes the PM’s woeful lack of judgment and comes at a time when his MPs’ wafer-thin patience in him is already at breaking point.

With a crunch by-election to come on February 26, and local elections to follow on May 7, this latest scandal could hardly have come at a worse time for a prime minister fighting for his political life.

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Lord Mandelson Resigns From Labour Party After Latest Jeffrey Epstein Revelations

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Lord Mandelson has resigned his membership of the Labour Party to avoid causing it “further embarrassment” following further revelations about his friendship with paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

The peer, who was sacked as US ambassador last year because of his links to Epstein, featured in a fresh batch of documents appearing to show him receiving $75,000 from the late financier.

In one bank statement, a payment of $25,000 to the account of Reinaldo Avila da Silva, now Lord Mandelson’s husband, features on May 14, 2003.

The statement appears to describe “Peter Mandelson” as the beneficiary of the payment.

Two later statements from May and June 2004 also feature $25,000 payments to Mandelson, one to an account which appears in his name, and another in which he appears to be listed as a beneficiary.

The peer told the BBC he had no recollection of receiving the payments, and did not know if the documents were genuine.

However the revelations led to calls from Labour and opposition MPs for Keir Starmer to kick him out of the party.

Mandelson said he had written on Sunday evening to Labour general secretary Hollie Ridley to say he was quitting the party.

In his letter, he said: “I have been further linked this weekend to the understandable furore surrounding Jeffrey Epstein and I feel regretful and sorry about this.

“Allegations which I believe to be false that he made financial payments to me 20 years ago, and of which I have no record or recollection, need investigating by me.

“While doing this I do not wish to cause further embarrassment to the Labour Party and I am therefore stepping down from membership of the party.”

Elsewhere in the newly-released Epstein documents, undated photographs of Lord Mandelson show him in a T-shirt and his pants, standing in what appears to be a hotel room.

This is a breaking news story and will be updated. Follow HuffPost UK on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.

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Russian Attack Kills 12 In Ukraine Despite Trump’s Claim Putin Promised To Stop Bombing

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Twelve Ukrainians were killed in a Russian drone strike just days after Donald Trump claimed Vladimir Putin had promised to temporarily stop attacking his neighbour.

A bus carrying miners in the Dnipropetrovsk region were targeted in the deadly assault.

Ukrainian foreign minister Andriy Sybiha said it showed the Russian pesident was pursuing a “war against civilians contrary to peace efforts”.

At least two others were killed in separate Russian attacks on Sunday, the Ukrainian authorities said.

The Russian strikes fly in the face of claims made by Trump on Thursday, in which he claimed Putin had told him no attacks would take place for a week as Ukraine endures a spell of bitterly cold weather.

The US president said: “They said they’ve never experienced cold like that, and I personally asked President Putin not to fire into Kyiv and the various towns for a week and he agreed to do that.

“And I have to tell you, it was very nice. People said, ‘Don’t waste the call, you’re not going to get that’. And he did it and we’re very happy that they did it because on top of everything else that’s not what they need is missiles coming into their towns and cities.”

However, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters that Putin had agreed to not strike Kyiv specifically, according to the Moscow Times.

“I can say that President Trump did indeed make a personal request to President Putin to refrain from striking Kyiv for a week, until February 1, as a way to create more hospitable conditions for negotiations.”

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‘Kick Him Out’: Keir Starmer Under Pressure To Expel Mandelson Over Epstein Links

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Keir Starmer is under mounting pressure to expel Lord Mandelson from the Labour Party after the latest revelations about his links to the late paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

The peer appears to feature in several bank statements released on Friday in the latest tranche of files related to the disgraced financier by the US government.

In one bank statement, a payment of $25,000 to the account of Reinaldo Avila da Silva, now Lord Mandelson’s husband, features on May 14, 2003.

The statement appears to describe “Peter Mandelson” as the beneficiary of the payment.

Two later statements from May and June 2004 also feature $25,000 payments to Mandelson, one to an account which appears in his name, and another in which he appears to be listed as a beneficiary.

At the time, he was serving as Labour MP for Hartlepool.

Elsewhere in the newly-released Epstein documents, undated photographs of Lord Mandelson show him in a T-shirt and his pants, standing in what appears to be a hotel room.

Mandelson, who was sacked as the UK’s ambassador to Washington last September over his links to Epstein, told the BBC he had no recollection of receiving the payments, and did not know if the documents were genuine.

He finally apologised to Epstein’s victims in January, having initially failed to do so.

Although he has given up the Labour whip in the House of Lords, Mandelson is still listed as one of the party’s peers on the parliamentary website and it is understood he is still a Labour member.

Labour MP Richard Burgon said: “Just how much more appalling news needs to come out about Peter Mandelson before the Labour leadership finally kicks him out of the party?”

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Just how much more appalling news needs to come out about Peter Mandelson before the Labour leadership finally kicks him out of the party?

— Richard Burgon MP (@RichardBurgon) February 1, 2026

A government minister told HuffPost UK that Mandelson “should certainly be suspended” pending an investigation into the latest allegations.

Tory MP Tom Tugendhat, a former security minister, said: “Enough is enough. Peter Mandelson knew that his ‘best pal’ Jeffrey Epstein was a convicted sex offender. He continued engaging with him anyway.

“I don’t believe for a second that Mandelson cares about the victims. He put his own interests first. The fact that he’s still a member of the Labour Party is a disgrace.

“The fact that Keir is even considering returning the whip to him in the House of Lords is a disgrace. If Labour is really so concerned about the victims, they should kick him out.”

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Enough is enough.

Peter Mandelson knew that his ‘best pal’ Jeffrey Epstein was a convicted sex offender. He continued engaging with him anyway.

I don’t believe for a second that Mandelson cares about the victims. He put his own interests first.

The fact that he’s still a… pic.twitter.com/aq1psA4x7L

— Tom Tugendhat (@TomTugendhat) February 1, 2026