Mandelson Scandal Could Disrupt US-UK Relations, Warns Trump Ally | Lee Cohen

Sep 16, 2025 | "This is certainly very disruptive. The timing couldn't be worse. And I think those are the most alarming things on the president's mind."

Keir Starmer's "catastrophic problems" with Angela Rayner and the Peter Mandelson scandal could impede on previous trade talks and create diplomatic speed bumps, says former adviser on Great Britain to the US House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee, Lee Cohen.

Troubled Starmer ‘Reeks of Defeat’ after Mandelson Fiasco

THE OBSERVER: Pressure mounts on the prime minister as Epstein scandal reaches the doors of No 10

Keir Starmer’s grip on his premiership is under stress, with Labour MPs increasingly speculating about leadership challenges and calling for his chief of staff to be removed.

An already fractious party, with MPs furious about everything from the handling of Gaza and the welfare rebellion to the departure of Angela Rayner and subsequent reshuffle, came to boiling point last week over Starmer’s handling of the scandal surrounding Peter Mandelson.

Starmer and his chief of staff, Morgan McSweeney, are being dogged by questions about when the prime minister learned the details of a cache of emails published by Bloomberg, in which Lord Mandelson expressed support for the convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. » | Catherine Neilan, Whitehall Editor | Sunday, September 14, 2025

Charlie Kirk's Killing Has Upended American Politics and No One Knows What Comes Next | Katy Balls

Sep 13, 2025 | “This is a watershed moment, but no one can quite decide what that is going to look like in a year’s time.”

The response to Charlie Kirk’s death has been polarised, with some even saying that he “deserved it” and many seeing it as a turning point, says the Times’s Washington editor Katy Balls.

Truth To Power: Labour: From Landslide to CHAOS in 14 Months

September 13, 2025

So many western politicians are USELESS these days! Why? Because they go into politics for all the wrong reasons. They enter politics to MAKE MONEY, MAKE A NAME FOR THEMSELVES, FOR THE PRESTIGE IT OFFERS THEM, and FOR POWER. These are all the wrong reasons to enter politics!

In years gone by, before the age of the career politician, people went into politics AFTER BEING SUCCESSFUL in their chosen fields. They had made their money, so now they wanted to GIVE SOMETHING BACK—THEIR SERVICE—TO THEIR COMMUNITY AND TO THEIR COUNTRY.

Because they generally had plenty of money behind them, they were generally not bribable, or at least far less so.

Further, in years gone by, people entered politics from all kinds of professions and fields, so they brought with them into politics a plethora of skills and knowledge. Then, all was changed; then graduates started coming out of universities and going into politics to make their careers, make money, and make a name for themselves. This is when things started to go awry. This is when people started going into politics for all the wrong reasons. We can all see the results this change has brought with it! — © Mark Alexander

Mandelson Withdrawn as Ambassador Following Allegations about Relationship with Epstein

Sep 11, 2025 | Peter Mandelson has been withdrawn as US ambassador with immediate effect, following allegations about his relationship with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Stephen Doughty, the Foreign Office minister, told the Commons that Mandelson has been sacked.

He told MPs: "In light of additional information in emails written by Peter Mandelson, the prime minister has asked the foreign secretary to withdraw him as ambassador to the United States."


U.K. Ambassador to U.S., Peter Mandelson, Fired Over Epstein Links: The British government said it withdrew the envoy after newly revealed emails showed the depth of his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. »

Mandelson Completely Upends UK Foreign Policy on Live TV

Mar 4, 2025 | It is astonishingly inept and thoughtless - the days of this cod-ambassador are numbered by his stupidity. It's time to bring in the professionals.

Bank Report Details Peter Mandelson’s Apparent Contact with Jeffrey Epstein

THE GUARDIAN: JP Morgan report from 2019 found Epstein seemed to keep ‘particularly close relationship’ with Labour peer

Peter Mandelson in 2009. Photograph: David Sillitoe/The Guardian
Court documents have shed light on the Labour former business secretary Peter Mandelson’s apparent contact with the disgraced businessman Jeffrey Epstein after the financier was convicted of procuring an underaged girl for prostitution.

The document is a 2019 internal report on Epstein by JP Morgan bank, which had a 15-year relationship with the financier, and was filed to a New York court this week.

It found that Epstein appeared to “maintain a particularly close relationship with Prince Andrew the Duke of York and Lord Peter Mandelson, a senior member of the British government”. » | Rowena Mason, Whitehall editor | Wednesday, June 21, 2023

Immigrants? We Sent Out Search Parties to Get Them to Come... and Made It Hard for Britons to Get Work, Says Mandelson

MAIL ONLINE: Former minister admits Labour deliberately engineered mass immigration / Between 1997 and 2010 net migration to Britain totalled 2.2million

Labour sent out ‘search parties’ for immigrants to get them to come to the UK, Lord Mandelson has admitted.

In a stunning confirmation that the Blair and Brown governments deliberately engineered mass immigration, the former Cabinet Minister and spin doctor said New Labour sought out foreign workers.

He also conceded that the influx of arrivals meant the party’s traditional supporters are now unable to find work.

By contrast, Labour leader Ed Miliband has said his party got it wrong on immigration but has refused to admit it was too high under Labour.

Between 1997 and 2010, net migration to Britain totalled more than 2.2million, more than twice the population of Birmingham.

The annual net figure quadrupled under Labour from 48,000 people in 1997 to 198,000 by 2009.

Lord Mandelson’s remarks come three years after Labour officials denied claims by former adviser Andrew Neather that they deliberately encouraged immigration in order to change the make-up of Britain.

Mr Neather said the policy was designed to ‘rub the Right’s nose in diversity’.

He said there was ‘a driving political purpose: that mass immigration was the way that the Government was going to make the UK truly multicultural’. Read on and comment » | Tim Shipman | Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Mandelson Shows Labour Is a Party Rotten with Decadence
MAIL ONLINE: The sumptuous home of financier Jacob Rothschild, Waddesdon Manor, has long been famed as one of Britain's most magnificent country houses.

But for all its splendour and beauty, the estate has this week been associated with an extraordinary weekend shooting party which symbolises the decadence, corruption and moral collapse of modern British socialism.

No novelist would have dared to invent such an occasion. The host was a leading member of the world's richest and most famous banking dynasty. The guests included the son of a bloodthirsty and oil-rich Arab dictator, and the discredited wife of a former British prime minister.

And totally at home in all this gilded opulence was the remarkable figure of Lord Mandelson, former Young Communist, far Left activist, major player in three successive Labour election victories and right-hand man to Gordon Brown.

One might have expected such a figure to have been repelled by so much opulence and wealth. Instead, Mandelson clearly revels in it. The drab lives of the hard-working men and women who placed their faith in Labour at three consecutive general elections hold no appeal to him.

Mandelson now only seems truly at home in grand country houses or on the yachts of billionaires such as his Russian oligarch friend Oleg Deripaska, whose guest he was during the summer of 2008.

The truth is that his attendance at a shooting party with Libyan leader Colonel Gaddafi's son is a perfect parable of the decadent Left's embrace of everything it claims to despise.

Nor is Mandelson an exception. Practically every member of Tony Blair's Cabinet which took office in 1997 has since sold out to wealth and power.

Blair himself is a perfect example. Since leaving office, he has become a popular member of the international plutocracy; a consultant to an investment bank who has earned an estimated £15 million since leaving Downing Street.

While at No 10, Blair was shamefully attracted to extremely rich men. On one occasion, government policy was even changed after the tycoon Bernie Ecclestone donated £1 million to the Labour Party.

Peerages were for sale under his government, while his wife Cherie blatantly profiteered from her status of First Lady by accepting free gifts and discounts from retailers. >>> Peter Oborne | Friday, November 27, 2009

The Political Opportunist
THE SUNDAY TIMES: LORD Mandelson has disclosed that he is ready to accept a job under a future Conservative government.

In an interview with The Sunday Times magazine, the business secretary said he would be willing to put his “experience at the disposal of the country”, if Labour lost power. “As I grow older, I can imagine more ways of serving my country than simply being a party politician,” he said.

Asked whether he might use his experience in business and world trade under a future government, he said: “If I was asked to do something for my country using that asset base, of course, I would consider it.”

On the specific point of whether he would consider requests from a Conservative government, he said: “Of course, it wouldn’t be serving the government, it would be serving the country and I wouldn’t be doing it by becoming a member of that government.” Lord Mandelson: I would work for the Tories >>> Jonathan Oliver, Political Editor | Sunday, September 27, 2009

The IoS Pink List 2009
THE INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY: It's back - as controversial and, we believe, as necessary as ever. Here is this year's roster of the 101 most influential gay and lesbian people in Britian today

Before we started work on the 10th annual Independent on Sunday Pink List, we asked ourselves again whether we should be doing it at all. After all, in 2009, equal rights are enshrined in law and there are ‘out’ gay men and women at the top of every profession - or rather, they might argue, just men and women at the top of their professions. So, is the list anachronistic? Is it patronising to gay people? We feared it might be - and went in search of a leading gay or lesbian figure to say so. None of those we contacted wanted to. Their verdict? The Pink List remains indispensable, a celebration of a community that is integral to the British way of life.

On the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall riots - and in the week when the National Portrait Gallery launches a major new exhibition of Gay Icons, this list is a celebration of those people who have struggled to get us from there to here. As such, you won’t see anyone “outed” in these pages. If you don't see someone you think should be on the list, it may be that they have asked not to appear. It is also possible that - believe it or not - we have erred and they have been overlooked. >>> | Sunday, June 28, 2009

Gay Soap Opera

Photo of Reinaldo Avila da Silva courtesy of THE DAILY MAIL

THIS IS LONDON: Former BP chief executive Lord Browne has struck up a 'close friendship' with Peter Mandelson's partner, Brazilian Reinaldo Avila da Silva, it has been revealed.

The peer, who was forced to resign from the oil giant last month after lying to a court about his relationship with rent boy Jeff Chevalier, has socialised a deux with Reinaldo.

The disclosure of the close links between multi-millionaire Lord Browne and Reinaldo follows reports that 53-year-old Mr Mandelson has become close to Italian fashion designer Marco Coretti.

A well-placed source, who is in contact with both Lord Browne, 59, and Reinaldo, who is 25 years his junior, said: "Reinaldo has seen John a couple of times. They are close friends and know each other well." Mandelson’s Partner Linked with Lord Browne (more)

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