"When Keir Starmer sat down with his new foreign secretary, Yvette Cooper, in his No 10 study on Thursday morning the writing was already on the wall for Peter Mandelson. The prime minister had spent the evening before reading through the new emails in all their nauseating detail between his ambassador to Washington and the convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein."
"Just hours earlier, he had told the Commons he had full confidence in Mandelson. Yet, on reading how the Labour veteran had urged Epstein after he was charged to fight for early release and told him his friends would stay with you and love you, it was clear that he had no option but to sack him. It means Starmer has lost two of his key people in less than a week."
Keir Starmer dismissed Peter Mandelson after emails showed Mandelson urged Jeffrey Epstein to fight for early release and told him his friends would stay with him. Starmer had earlier expressed confidence but decided to sack Mandelson after reading the emails in No 10. The departure follows other recent exits, including Angela Rayner, reducing senior team influence and prompting scrutiny of when Downing Street became aware of the correspondence. No 10 maintains Starmer had not seen the latest emails before appointing Mandelson and says action was taken promptly, though Bloomberg had contacted Mandelson about the emails earlier.
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